UO Thursday Thread

bb80 · October 2010

amt1586:

My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

i guess so...BUT

does it really matter WHY people are being green? I think what matters is that they are doing it, not what their motivations are :-)

anabell0920 · October 2010

amt1586:
My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

While thi might be true should it matter? So what if people are only doing it to "be cool". They are helping in the long run so if that's what it takes so be it.

anabell0920 · October 2010

Dup

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

ZTAsunshine:

I think the adoption system is flawed. Anyone can go into a hospital and give birth and the hospital lets them take the baby home.

But in order to adopt you have pay a whole lot of money, endure countless interviews, have countless background checks and wait years.

It doesn't seem fair to me.

I don't think this is an UO. I bet a lot of women will agree with you.

I would love to adopt a child, but I can't afford it. At least not at this stage in my life. Not to mention, DH isn't a citizen, so I don't know if we would pass the background checks.

amt1586 · October 2010

bb80:
amt1586:

My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

i guess so...BUT

does it really matter WHY people are being green? I think what matters is that they are doing it, not what their motivations are :-)

This is true I guess when it became so popular I was just like "Man, we've been doing this forever and we have always been called backwards!"

bb80 · October 2010

anabell0920:
amt1586:

My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

While thi might be true should it matter? So what if people are only doing it to "be cool". They are helping in the long run so if that's what it takes so be it.

jinx you owe me a coke

amt1586 · October 2010

bb80:
anabell0920:
amt1586:

My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

While thi might be true should it matter? So what if people are only doing it to "be cool". They are helping in the long run so if that's what it takes so be it.

jinx you owe me a coke

lol!

greengirl0909 · October 2010

My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

yankeebaby2 · October 2010

amt1586:

My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!

I don't see why the motivations should matter. If so I think the Amish staked a claim on the whole going green thing.

I am green in the areas that I can be and started being more green when I saw how easy it was. I try and find more ways to help the environment every day.

bb80 · October 2010

This is true I guess when it became so popular I was just like "Man, we've been doing this forever and we have always been called backwards!"

Yeah that sucks! esp the "murderer" part, where do they think their meat comes from?! i bet the animals you raise are raised in much better and cleaner conditions than the meat bought in the store!

Mrs.ABC · October 2010

anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

You're a douche.

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

Mrs.ABC · October 2010

Mrs.ABC:
anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

You're a douche.

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

Just noticed the part where you were kidding so I take it back!

yankeebaby2 · October 2010

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

bb80 · October 2010

Mrs.ABC:
Mrs.ABC:
anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

You're a douche.

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

Just noticed the part where you were kidding so I take it back!

LMFAO ROTFL

ahahahahaha

anabel, you are SO a douchenozzle

anabell0920 · October 2010

Mrs.ABC:
anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

You're a douche.

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

Looks like someone forgot to scroll down...

Jeni182 · October 2010

Mrs.ABC:
anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

You're a douche.

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

LOL

This post is so full of fail.

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

I think she's talkign about excessive absences. My sister has a friend that made it to school 2 days over the 50% mark his senior year and scraped by enough in his classes to graduate. He's still a loser and a stoner (22 years old). He doesn't have a job and doesn't go to school. He mooches off of his parents and friends. I whole-heartedly believe that if parents were held accountable for making their children actually go to school they would inadvertantly teach their kids the responsibility that America's youth seems to lack.

aocain02@yahoo.com · October 2010

I think our generation generally has a sense of entitlement. I see coworkers my age and the drive their expensive sports cars, rent expensive apartments, wear designer clothes, yet complain they have to work and turn their nose up at assignments at work because they think they are above it. It scares me in a way to see what our kids generation will be like when they are our age if these are the types of parents raising them. I'd like to add my disclaimer that most of my coworkers are single and don't have kids.

ZTAsunshine · October 2010

Brandi Bee:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

That's true. But then, I skipped a ton of school and my parents had to work. They couldn't be there to stop me. Fining them would have punished my siblings who weren't doing that...my family probably would have went hungry. I think they just shouldn't let absences go on and on before they take steps. I missed 50 something days before it even became a problem.

I am required to call the child's home if they miss one day of school. One day! After 10 straight days, they are automatically dropped from my roll unless they are on homebound. Parents in my district can be charged up to $500.00 dollars and 30 days in jail if their child misses too much school. However, while that is on the books- the school district has never charged a parent or given them jail time.

lildevil968 · October 2010

lindsleek:

I'll get all political today then...

My UO, I don't get how democrats (in general) are pro-choice yet against the death penalty. It's okay to abort an unborn child but it isn't okay to take the life of a murderer.

That just never made sense to me.

FYI: I am pro choice and I support the death penalty.

Democrat here. Iam pro-life, and anti Death penalty. I don't think it is ok to take the life of a innocent child, and I don't believe it is ok for the government to take people's lives either.

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

Brandi Bee:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

That's true. But then, I skipped a ton of school and my parents had to work. They couldn't be there to stop me. Fining them would have punished my siblings who weren't doing that...my family probably would have went hungry. I think they just shouldn't let absences go on and on before they take steps. I missed 50 something days before it even became a problem.

I disagree. Both my parents worked. I was terrified of what they would do if I skipped school and they found out. (Not that they were abusive, but I knew there would be punishment. No time with friends, extra chores, etc.) My parents instilled a sense of responsibility in me at a young age. Skipping school never occured to me.

An absence because of a doctor's appointment or an illness could easily be excused by a doctor's note. Skipping school should be punished. Kids shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Especially since those are our tax dollars being wasted.

Shortycube · October 2010

i'm pro-life, but pro-choice in only SOME cases. i'm undecided on the DP - you can't kill people to show people that killing is wrong.

anabell0920 · October 2010

HotSauceonaStick:
yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

I think she's talkign about excessive absences. My sister has a friend that made it to school 2 days over the 50% mark his senior year and scraped by enough in his classes to graduate. He's still a loser and a stoner (22 years old). He doesn't have a job and doesn't go to school. He mooches off of his parents and friends. I whole-heartedly believe that if parents were held accountable for making their children actually go to school they would inadvertantly teach their kids the responsibility that America's youth seems to lack.

Not every kid that was a slacker in high school will grow up to be a stoner and loser. I skipped so much in high school that I had to get my GED due to my absences. My mom was a single mom working full time and traveling for her work so she was doing the best she could. I don't blame her I blame myself.

But I am no stoner or loser and I did go and do something with myself as soon as I got it. I went to cosmetology school and worked at a very nice salon making good money until we moved for H to be in the navy. It would be very sad if people like my mom who were honestly doing the best they could to make it got punished.

ETA- I DID get punished by not being able to graduate with my high school class. I think that is a way more fair punishment than the parents being fined.

Soon2BMrsWiley · October 2010

MarthaP18:
My UO is that I HATE Lady Gaga. I feel like I'm the only one on the planet. She keeps winning awards and everyone thinks she's so great. I think her music is generic, sucky GARBAGE, and I think her style is ridiculous, and not in a good way. She's trying WAY too hard to be shocking, IMO, and I can't stand to even look at her.

Yes Yes Right Hug Yes Yes

starryeyeddreamer · October 2010

anabell0920:
amt1586:
My UO is that people who are trying to be "green" and all that jazz are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do now. For a long time people where I live have been called backwards and behind in the times because we grow/raise our own food, you can see people riding horses all the time instead of cars, we get called murderers for killing a chicken or cow or pig or deer to feed our family, we have friends who come and get our llama wool and make clothes out of it, dry our clothes on a clothes line, we do everything we can to support ourselves before having to get/buy things from others...and now all this is the "green" thing to do. Hell we were "green" before "green" was a thing!
While thi might be true should it matter? So what if people are only doing it to "be cool". They are helping in the long run so if that's what it takes so be it.

Yes I don't hang dry my diapers and recycle to be cool though. I do it to save us money, and to leave less trash around for future generations.

lildevil968 · October 2010

ZTAsunshine:

I think the adoption system is flawed. Anyone can go into a hospital and give birth and the hospital lets them take the baby home.

But in order to adopt you have pay a whole lot of money, endure countless interviews, have countless background checks and wait years.

It doesn't seem fair to me.

I agree! My Brother and SIL are starting the process to adopt 2 of their foster boys. It is a very long process once the parents sign over all legal rights, and then from that point it can take up to a year or more for the adoption to be finalized. Mean while they are paying an adoption attorney tons of money for their services.

zeptattoo · October 2010

sleepingbeauty825:
To be fair, the WIC post wasn't a UO. Just saying. I mean, it obviously WAS a UO, it wasn't posted as one.

Yeah, I guess it was. But part of it was admitting that I didn't know the difference between one program and the other and adjusting my opinion accordingly.

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

anabell0920:
HotSauceonaStick:
yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

I think she's talkign about excessive absences. My sister has a friend that made it to school 2 days over the 50% mark his senior year and scraped by enough in his classes to graduate. He's still a loser and a stoner (22 years old). He doesn't have a job and doesn't go to school. He mooches off of his parents and friends. I whole-heartedly believe that if parents were held accountable for making their children actually go to school they would inadvertantly teach their kids the responsibility that America's youth seems to lack.

Not every kid that was a slacker in high school will grow up to be a stoner and loser. I skipped so much in high school that I had to get my GED due to my absences. My mom was a single mom working full time and traveling for her work so she was doing the best she could. I don't blame her I blame myself.

But I am no stoner or loser and I did go and do something with myself as soon as I got it. I went to cosmetology school and worked at a very nice salon making good money until we moved for H to be in the navy. It would be very sad if people like my mom who were honestly doing the best they could to make it got punished.

Agreed. I wasn't trying to imply that everyone who skips school ends up a loser.

IDK. My kids (obviously) aren't old enough for this to be a problem yet. There has to be some sort of recourse for the schools, though. Like the PP said, the teachers are being held accountable for the learning of students who don't show up to class. It might not be fair to punish single working moms who can't be at home to get their daughter out of bed, but is it fair that the teacher can lose her job because that mother can't get her daughter to be responsible?

The bottom line is: parents are responsible for their children until they are 18. I was a teenager 5 years ago. I remember how stubborn I was. I know that trying to get me to do something was like moving a moutain. But that's the parent's responsibility, not the teacher's.

MomOfClaire · October 2010

zeptattoo:
sleepingbeauty825:
To be fair, the WIC post wasn't a UO. Just saying. I mean, it obviously WAS a UO, it wasn't posted as one.

Yeah, I guess it was. But part of it was admitting that I didn't know the difference between one program and the other and adjusting my opinion accordingly.

Yours wasn't really that bad. The one last night got to me.

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

Brandi Bee:

I feel bad about it sometimes, that I was soooo rotten at school. Part of it is Grant Co's ass backwards education system, but that didn't mean I had to act the way I did. They would put me in school suspension....and I would just act up in there and get suspended! Then I had three days off.

Although, I will say that once I went court for truancy and the absences truly were related to both of my grandmothers dying of cancer at the same time.

I have never understood out-of-school suspensions.

My high school did Saturday School instead. That was (IMO) a better idea. You had to get up and be at school on a Saturday at 8:00 AM for 3 hours and sit in detention. If you didn't show up, you got expelled. That solved a lot of the problem of kids skipping school.

greengirl0909 · October 2010

yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

greengirl0909 · October 2010

yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

I'm not concerned about kids who stay home when they are sick. I want those kids to stay home. I'm concerned about families who keep their kids home becasue they need them to watch younger siblings, because mom couldn't get up or some other bogus reason. Seriously, yesterday one of my students' mom called her in with this reason "She's out of eyeliner so she's refusing to come to school today." WHAT?!?

myonetruelove · October 2010

Brandi Bee:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

That's true. But then, I skipped a ton of school and my parents had to work. They couldn't be there to stop me. Fining them would have punished my siblings who weren't doing that...my family probably would have went hungry. I think they just shouldn't let absences go on and on before they take steps. I missed 50 something days before it even became a problem.

Naw they would have just enrolled in WIC! Stick out tongue . I didn't put my 2 cents in the post below. I was sleeping at the time..lol.

My UO - I don't get what is up with not giving Z a bottle during nap. My mom and MIL do and I don't have a problem with it. They don't do it everytime and sometimes it's the only way they can get him down. They say it is not good to associate nap time with bottle time as it will create a habit. I really don't foresee Z being 2 and holding on to a steak to soothe him to sleep.

Hot Sauce on a Stick · October 2010

myonetruelove:

My UO - I don't get what is up with not giving Z a bottle during nap. My mom and MIL do and I don't have a problem with it. They don't do it everytime and sometimes it's the only way they can get him down. They say it is not good to associate nap time with bottle time as it will create a habit. I really don't foresee Z being 2 and holding on to a steak to soothe him to sleep.

I've given both of my kids bottles to get to sleep.

Nate switched to watered down formula when he got his first tooth and by about 11 months he was taking a sippy cup of water. He still has a cup of water on his nightstand at night and doesn't NOT go to bed suckingon a steak (LMAO!). He wouldn't take a paci, but he wanted to suck to soothe himself, so it had to be a bottle. Many women nurse their babies to sleep, i don't think a bottle is any different.

Lily just got a tooth yesterday so we'll work on watering down her formula and switching her to straight water now, too.

(BTW: Nate never had bottle rot. He went to his first dentist's appointment in February and he doesn't have a single cavity.)

LuvMyBostons · October 2010

My UO, which I'll probably get flamed for...is I think it's lazy for a parent to give a pacifier after a certain age (let's say 1 year). Early on, I get it, but after a while it's just easy for someone to pop the mute button in the kids mouth to shut them up.

monj76 · October 2010

guppysown@yahoo.com:
yankeebaby2:

guppysown@yahoo.com:
My UO is that there should be more parental accountability for kids' success in school, especially when it comes to standardized testing. I'd like to see parents whose kids miss a lot of school without a diagnosed medical reason face a fine or parents whose kids do exceptionally well get a bonus or something. Schools are facing more and more accountability, which I'm fine with and I'm prepared to work hard, but I can't teach your kid if they aren't there. Then my school faces punishment.

I try and make sure my kids are there every day. If they have an appointment I try my hardest to make it at the end of the day so they are still in homeroom and the school gets credit for them that day. But sometimes I keep them hold for a cold, which is contagious or the flu and I don't take them to the doctor. I would seriously go off on the school if I was fined for my children not being there.

I'm not concerned about kids who stay home when they are sick. I want those kids to stay home. I'm concerned about families who keep their kids home becasue they need them to watch younger siblings, because mom couldn't get up or some other bogus reason. Seriously, yesterday one of my students' mom called her in with this reason "She's out of eyeliner so she's refusing to come to school today." WHAT?!?

BIL's ex-wife kept their kids home so much that one almost had to repeat a grade last year. Her excuses were so lame, like she didnt feel like getting up. The kicker is they live within walking distance from the schools, and the boys are 13 and 9, old enough to walk IMO.

only1erin · October 2010

lindsleek:

I'll get all political today then...

My UO, I don't get how democrats (in general) are pro-choice yet against the death penalty. It's okay to abort an unborn child but it isn't okay to take the life of a murderer.

That just never made sense to me.

FYI: I am pro choice and I support the death penalty.

i am a democrat, pro-choice, and pro-death penalty.....i make sense!! lol.

monitovar · October 2010

anabell0920:

My UO is it's selfish to FF

KIDDING!!! Yall frogot to add that one in there.

Hi Ladies,

I am new posting on this board, hope no one minds me jumping in. I usually post on the premiee board and was on the High Risk board through out my pg.

I have been reading some of your posts lately. Today I was following this thread and was scrolling down and reading everyones replies, and when I came to this one, my heart stopped, but then I read the "Kidding" part at the bottom. Big Smile

I am exclusive FF not by personal choice, but by neccessity. My son was born at 33 wks and was very weak to latch on. He was in the NICU for 6 weeks and during that time I pumped. Finally when he was strong enough to finally latch on he was use to the bottle, so I countinued pumping until he was 4 months, but my production wasn't enough for it to be exclusively BM, then my supply tanked completely and had to go to FFing exclusively. This is one thing that has been really hard to overcome for me, and have felt like a failer.

So my U/O I guess would be "when people assume you make a choice for convienance and dont' really know the facts."

PS- to the poster I chose to reply to, pls don't think I chose your reply to single you out, not at all. It just made me think of my U/O. I know you where "Kidding". Big Smile

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