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May 2011 Moms
Ideas vs Reality
What plans or ideas did you have for parenting/baby that life has made you stop/change?
I had these great plans thought I would have all this time on my hands and would be able to keep my house spotless (hahaha soooo didnt happen)
And I had great plans on EBF for 6 months, well my LO never latched on so I pumped for 4 months but had to suppliment with formula after 2 1/2
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Re: Ideas vs Reality
I lost my angels 07/2010, 04/2017, 10/2017
Meimsx no more
I thought that having twins was going to be completely chaotic, but we've finally managed to come up with a schedule/routine that works for us so it's not so bad. My house is actually cleaner now than it's ever been in my life!
I thought that I was going to successfully be able to BF the boys for 6 months. Between supply issues, latching issues due to prematurity and NICU time, and the fact that I could never figure out tandem nursing, I was lucky to make it the 6 weeks I could.
Most of what I've discovered about motherhood has been pleasantly surprising for me, I'm very lucky.
This is us too, the way I see it is that it will still me in good condition for the next baby to not sleep in it.
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I thought that I would either succeed or fail at breastfeeding. It didn't really occur to me that I could EBF for 3 months with no weight gain from for 6 weeks then get told I had to supplement and go through my entire stash in 2 days. Now LO gets BM all day long and formula before bed (just because that's when I am "empty").
I also thought I'd have time to do 'stuff'. Working on my real-estate career, doing crafts, going to the gym etc. Turns out I am nursing pretty much every hour still and can't fit all that in. . .
I completely admire your dedication! You go girl!
Many! The first one would be the NB period, I didn't expect it to be as stressful and overwhelming as it was for me.
The second, I thought he would be a good sleeper, yeah right!
Third, I didn't think my parenting style would be AP; I used to be so against BFing and decided to do it only because it was best for him, after the initial hardships I didn't think I would enjoy it so much and that I'd be considering to still BF past one year, or that I would bedshare, or babywear, or that I would be all about being eco-friendly...I never consider myself to be all granola but turns out I'm crunchier than I thought! Lol.
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THIS!!!
This. Although we did get lucky and he STTN last night. That's not a common occurrance though.
Mmmm...cake!
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