@breadpudding, you HAVE successfully breastfed. You've done it for what, 7 months now? That's a huge success. I totally understand your feelings... I had tons of mixed emotions about nor really having the choice to keep going when her weight tanked again. But you've done an awesome job to this point, and will continue to be an awesome mama, no matter how your LO gets fed.
Suzy & Brian November 3, 2007 "...this one time, at band camp..." ;-)
TTC #1 since 9/2012
BFP #1 2/16/13, EDD 10/13/13, CP 2/21/13
BFP #2 6/2/13
Baby J-Bug 2/8/14
My Wedding Bio from back in the day
@Avswolf Thank you for the suggestions. I'm going to try to give him more solids. Also, I'll try to pump once a day and bottle feed him to see how much he is wanting to eat during one session. (Is he eating only 2 oz? 3? 4?) My very last attempt well be to supplement. I FF DS1 after BF for a little bit. So I'm not against formula, I just wanted so badly to be able to successfully BF and I feel like this is being taken from me.
/cry baby
At the end of the day, I know that something will work out. I just wasn't expecting this news from the pedi today.
Correct me if I'm wrong....but you have successfully BF. For 7ish mo (can't remember how old your LO is). You are successful, mama! I've been supplementing with formula on and off since LO was 4 days old. I don't consider that a BF failure, and you absolutely should not either.
@avswolf ...if it was his gf, wouldn't her number be in his phone? Like, wouldn't he send it by name, not typing the number in??? Hilarious all the same.
@breadpudding could you do a weighted feeding to see how much lo is taking when you nurse? If the answer is supplementing with formula, you don't have to stop bf'ing if you don't want to...you can still bf and just add in formula.
Holy shit holy shit holy shit I am pretty sure we have a black widow spider on the side of our planter box. I compared my phone pic to the one on Google and yeah, pretty sure. It had the red on the bulbous part.
Holy shit holy shit holy shit I am pretty sure we have a black widow spider on the side of our planter box. I compared my phone pic to the one on Google and yeah, pretty sure. It had the red on the bulbous part.
Oh, I was going to tell you guys. I forget if I mentioned that I swabbed the inside of my nose and did a bacterial culture. Well, apparently, I have a bacteria in my nose that defies rules. This particular bacteria isn't supposed to do something (coagulate plasma) and it does. I asked a couple different people in the lab if it was supposed to do that, and they said no... but I know for sure it's that particular bacteria because we have this amazing machine that can identify everything down to the subspecies. It is staphylococcus lugdenensis, in case anyone was dying to know (I know you all were).
Please put that in your siggy so I (we) can stare at that forever. Andplusalso so I'll never forget about the masturbaition video. That's really funny.
@golfergirl08 omg thats way cool. I'm just jealous you have access to equipment like that. I'm not smart like i wouldn't know what its really all used for but i think i would have fun swabbing random things and checking it all out.
@golfergirl08 Google made no sense, and what I could make sense of was absolutely scary.
A rare hybrid infection?
I'm obviously wrong, and did very little research, so could you explain it in words that I will understand?
ETA google.
@breadpudding this particular bacteria is normal to have in the body! So no infection... it was just doing weird things it's not supposed to. So yeah, weird hybrid bacteria that defies logic!
Can anyone explain to me the right way to use infant saline nose drops? I don't get it. G has a cold and is full of boogers. Do I use the drops before suctioning his nose/instead of suctioning/after suctioning? I feel like I missed some class at some point on how to care for an infant with a cold...
Totally thinking of ordering this
(instead of NoseFrieda because it uses tissues and I don't have to worry about replacing filters)
Saline drops up the nose to loosen the boogers and make it easier for them to be sucked out
I need all the hugs and reassurance/advice. I'm so upset. We just left LO's pedi and he is in the 6th percentile for weight, and the 0.23 percentile for height/weight. Yes, LESS THAN 1 percent.
I don't even know what to say or how to feel.
As long as he's following the same percentile then he's just dinky. Em is the 9th percentile on everything, all her friends are around the 75th....I'd say she's dainty, but she's like a bull in a china shop! All babies are different, my brother was a real shorty until about 15, then he grew a foot pretty much over night and is now 6ft 3
@Avswolf OMG! How did I not see your random?! How long was the video? Did you watch it or turn it off immediately? I have so many questions.
How do you accidentally send someone a video of you masturbaiting?!
Apparently "her" number ends in 3 and mine ends in 2, so, fat finger?? I deleted as soon as I knew what it was. He was in a bathroom, over a toilet. Gross!
Re: Friday Randoms
TTC #1 since 9/2012
BFP #1 2/16/13, EDD 10/13/13, CP 2/21/13
BFP #2 6/2/13
Baby J-Bug 2/8/14 My Wedding Bio from back in the day
I don't want to take over the randoms with this, so thank you all again so much, and you may continue with your regular randoms.
Random, and possibly a FFFC... a box of Christmas toys just came in the mail today. I'm starting and finishing early this year!
@breadpudding could you do a weighted feeding to see how much lo is taking when you nurse? If the answer is supplementing with formula, you don't have to stop bf'ing if you don't want to...you can still bf and just add in formula.
::runs off to Google::
Please put that in your siggy so I (we) can stare at that forever. Andplusalso so I'll never forget about the masturbaition video. That's really funny.
A rare hybrid infection?
I'm obviously wrong, and did very little research, so could you explain it in words that I will understand?
ETA google.
Damn it.
All babies are different, my brother was a real shorty until about 15, then he grew a foot pretty much over night and is now 6ft 3