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April 2012 Moms
UO
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Re: UO
I have an obsessive personality, so I wanted to learn everything when we started TTC. I also thought everything about how the body works was so interesting. Another reason for us was that I'm a teacher, so I was hoping for good timing. April worked pretty well
It's not that bad for you!
Geez, I thought the notion that all fat is bad fat went out with the 1980s.
I would flip out on someone if they did that around me.
I'll join in on this one... Mayo is gross, but I love 1,000 Island dressing...
Mustard is the most disgusting condiment in the American Standard Condiment list. (mayo, mustard, ketchup, relish and salsa.) (And yes, I just made that list up)
I don't think you should be offered a formula bag in the hospital EVER, but if you ask for it you should get it with no question. You should also see a lactation consultant in the hospital weather you plan on BFing or not.
Ice cream cones pi$$ me off because I can't eat it with out making a mess.
I've been begging DH to go to brunch... It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe on the side...
And anyone who knows where that last quote is from is totally awesome.
I know there are good fats, but I also know people that put a giant glob of emulsified oil and egg on top of everything and I can't see how that can be good for you. Also, it's generally made with vegetable oil and I'm not a huge fan of soy products. I only use canola and olive in my kitchen.
Breakfast rules my world. I live for breakfast. I can't wait for Saturday mornings when my LO is older and we have another and can make bear pancakes.
I hate sushi. And wasabi. And my husband is Japanese so I feel like a bad wife. BUT! I did make it homemade for him on his birthday once so I feel like that got me off the hook, for like, ever.
I'm disliking alcohol these days. A few sips gets me a headache for the whole next day, even with being really hydrated. Goodbye my white and red wine, Mexican beers with lots of lime and bloody mary's. I know the first time I just go for it will be the worst hangover ever. And I've had some doozies, coining the phrase, "death over."
And finally, I hate breastfeeding. I have to wear shields due to my flat nipples that I didn't know were flat. I'm only continuing to do it because it's great for LO and convenient. And I feel like DH will be disappointed if we have to use bottles or formula.
Ramsey is on Fox. And BBC...
When I was in the hospital, I felt very pressured to supplement...they kept asking me non-stop, at least 2X a day, and said "It's not bad for the baby," or "He needs to eat." They tried to get me to use this tube that would feed him formula, but he'd still be latched...I felt a lot of pressure to give him formula, like what I was doing wasn't enough for him. I did give him a very small amount to supplement when we got home (like I said above, it helped a lot to have those samples to get him to latch), but I do feel that if I wasn't persistent in telling them no, they would have completely pressured me into FF from the get-go. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing for those who do, but I personally felt a lot of pressure. I didn't know what I was doing, and I only met with the LC once, so it was a very confusing time.
My DH used to do it all the time, then I started telling the cashier "Just charge for two drinks he is going to get soda either way" It embarrassed the cr@p out of him!
Wow.
Maybe you need a new pedi. I know for me personally, our pedi knows much more about kids, diseases, etc than I do since he is a DOCTOR and I am not. He is also a father of 3 and I do trust him because he has my children's lives in his hands. He has also said on more than one occasion that this is his professional opinion and this is his opinion as a father. He is pro-BF which is great for our family. He doesn't care when we start solids as we like to delay solids until at least 6 months and do a modified BLW, he just wants table foods by 12 months which is what we do. He is not a CIO pedi and he actually listens to our concerns and makes us feel better since that is what a large percentage of their job is, to allievate fears and concerns in parents.
I once had a picture until the trolls showed up.
TTC #1 7/08 PCOS dx 8/28/04 Met 1000 mg and Clomid cycles 1-4 1/6/09-5/2/09 BFN
Clomid 100mg 6/4/09=O'd=BFP on 6/29/09! Beta@14DPO 70.8 Beta@16DPO 152. EDD 3/7/10.
First u/s on 7/13/09 @6w0d heard and saw heartbeat 102 bpm.
K M #1 arrived via c/s 3/1/10 10 lbs, 22 inches long at 39 weeks.
Surprise expecting #2. Med-free BFP on 8/1/11! Beta@15DPO 58.2 Beta@17DPO 198.3 Beta@23DPO 2338. EDD 4/9/12
K M #2 arrived via c/s 3/19/12 9 lbs 2 oz, 21 inches long at 37 weeks.
"If we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
I think I love you. I've been thinking that the entire time I have been reading this thread.
A15 January Siggy Challenge-
SIMPSONS!!!!!
Congrats! You are fertile! Some of us aren't so lucky and have spent many years, tears and a ton of money to get pregnant.
I charted to avoid and that is how I found out I had PCOS 8 years ago and even at that it took 6 months for a doctor to listen to my concerns since we were not TTC. I read TCOYF right around the time we got married 2/04 and I charted and realized my cycles were all wonky. I started seeing various docs in 4/04 and finally got my dx after several tests in 8/04. Everytime we were ready to TTC I charted. We tried for 3 1/2 years before getting serious July of 2008. I absolutely charted to help increase my chances of getting pregnant. There is nothing wrong with being informed of how your body works. Even with clomid I couldn't just have sex on day 14 as I always O'd on day 18 or 19 with clomid, except my BFP cycle which was day 16. If I wasn't charting I would've missed out on all those opportunities especially the one that resulted in my son as that was 2-3 days before my "normal" with clomid. Since DD was an "oh look at that", I must have O'd around day 14 since I only had sex that day. I was not paying attention to my cycle and if I were I would've known not to have sex that day. DH and I even discussed beforehand that the odds were not in our favor to get pregnant so we thought we were safe (again, I never realized it was day 14, only later that week did I realize it after I had a pregnancy dream and woke up panicked since we were one and done). Obviously in our case the odds were 100%.
I don't have a problem if people want to chart from the start. It only makes sense to me but then again I charted back when I was 23 and children weren't even on the radar. At that point I didn't think I ever wanted kids, but the moment the doctor said that DH and I had less than a 5% chance of having a biological child without major medical intervention boy oh boy did I feel robbed at that very moment. I'm so glad that both children proved that doctor wrong and even that doctor told me how he was happy to have been proven wrong after DS was born.
I once had a picture until the trolls showed up.
TTC #1 7/08 PCOS dx 8/28/04 Met 1000 mg and Clomid cycles 1-4 1/6/09-5/2/09 BFN
Clomid 100mg 6/4/09=O'd=BFP on 6/29/09! Beta@14DPO 70.8 Beta@16DPO 152. EDD 3/7/10.
First u/s on 7/13/09 @6w0d heard and saw heartbeat 102 bpm.
K M #1 arrived via c/s 3/1/10 10 lbs, 22 inches long at 39 weeks.
Surprise expecting #2. Med-free BFP on 8/1/11! Beta@15DPO 58.2 Beta@17DPO 198.3 Beta@23DPO 2338. EDD 4/9/12
K M #2 arrived via c/s 3/19/12 9 lbs 2 oz, 21 inches long at 37 weeks.
"If we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
While I don't completely disagree with you, if you feel this way you should find someone else. My DS's first pedi drove me insane and I hated going to see him. I found him a new one at 5 months and I love her to pieces and trust her. However, I have experience with many many doctors from going through cancer, which showed me that there are so many doctors with different experiences and different opinions out there. This makes it is so so so important that you always be an informed patient and be your own (or your child's) advocate. What I mean by that is, without being a hypochondriac, push for answers if something a doctor says or decides upon makes you uncomfortable and always change to another doctor if you don't trust or like your care.
While these people do go through a lot school and training, there are people out there who can easily pass tests but have a very hard time applying what they know to actual patients. As long as you remain informed, then you should be okay.
I read and took mrsburt's UO as saying that she didn't understand why people who are just starting out TTC would be so detailed (in their sig's). Not that she didn't understand charting before or at the beginning of TTC.
I had PCOS and started charting after we didn't get preg the first few months, and wasn't diagnosed with PCOS until I talked to my OB at my annual over a year into trying. Clomid got us our boys, and I hope we don't have to go that route again but do realize that we may need to.
My food UOs is that I hate mustard. The smell of it makes me gag. BUT I will eat it if it's in deviled eggs. I have never tried mayo mixed with ketchup, but I do like each individually. I don't like or understand mayo on a hamburger, at all.
Sending a wild fire your way!! (figuratively of course, lol)
Another food UO- in my neck of the woods there is NO mustard on hamburgers! When I go to McDonalds out of state and there is mustard on my burger I get very angry!
ETA- I can actually remember going to an out of state mcdonalds as a child and then hysterically crying like a brat when my cheeseburger had mustard on it. On that same day I ordered a coke and got a dr pepper. Oh the horror!
Yes, all this talk of cheese and ice cream is making me VERY depressed as we are MSPI. Sometimes I just wanna wean so I can go have queso and coffee!!!
I LOVE Dr. Pepper! And I always order my cheeseburgers plain to avoid getting condiments I don't want.
Agreed
See, this is the way I feel about ketchup. Wendy's Junior Bacon Cheeseburger does not come with ketchup so I never had to worry until it happened one day. I bit into my lovely Junior Bacon Cheeseburger and one second later, hurled it out of my mouth and onto my dashboard. I nearly threw up and died. The woman at the counter actually tried to argue with me and tell me they had ketchup on them. NO MA'AM, you are incorrect! I got three free burgers that day but it still was not worth the reminder of how vile ketchup is.
I probably would not have asked for the formula bag because I planned to EBF for at least the first six weeks, until I went back to work. However, on day 5, when I absolutely could not see trying to latch DD onto my bleeding nipples one more time, I was glad I had it. I gave her one bottle of premixed formula and then went out and bought a pump. I pretty much EPed for the next 6 weeks, with a couple of nursing sessions thrown in. I did not mind bottle feeding expressed breast milk. In fact, it has made some things easier. H was able to give her a bottle, enabling me to get more sleep and be more flexible with my schedule; I haven't tried to intro a bottle later in the game.
I FF now, but getting those samples was not what made me do so. I AM a little weirded out by the marketing aspect, but I think if you are committed to trying to breastfeed, you aren't going to be swayed by formula samples. And that formula sample sure came in handy even though I couldn't have known it would. But, I reiterate, it was not what made me choose to FF several weeks later. It just provided a meal.
I don't see the point in seeing a LC if you don't even want to attempt to breastfeed.
Some hospitals have stopped offering the formula samples so they can be certified as "baby friendly."
Finally, I don't give a sh!t how other women choose to feed their baby, and I wish bf-ing advocates would butt thefucck out.
eta: also, in my hospital, NOBODY pushed the formula on me. They quietly distributed the samples, and that was that.
I liked Anthony Bourdain until I read Kitchen Confidential... Now I think he's mediocre and an a$$. Alton Brown is 10,000x better.
I'm 30, I planned and saved for my baby for a long time. I was excited to ttc and I wanted my baby ASAP. I turned ttc into a job and was pregnant by my second cycle. I'd recommend tracking to anyone who's excited to start trying.
Also, everything becomes extra hilarious to me. Who doesn't love to laugh?!
Tambcat- You are AWESOME!
I like Dr. Pepper, but...
Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper!
There has to be a way for hospitals to be both "breastfeeding friendly" AND supportive of those who FF. The initiative isn't planning on eliminating FF efforts completely, are they? I feel like I need to research this more...
I've never read it, maybe I'll look into it. Is it his book or a book written about him?
My hospital was certified baby friendly and at the time I thought this was great, and although I EBF I still think whoever wants to use formula should absolutely be able to! It is insane if a hospital tries to force breast feeding on anyone. Insane!
Cheers to that!
In fact, I'm throughly enjoying my glass of Malbec right now!
But seriously, OP, I admire the fact that you stay away from it since alcoholism runs in your family.
Emerson Kate born 4/6/12, 5 lbs. 13 oz. 18 3/4 inches.
Happily expecting Baby Mac #2 around 4/13/14
I think after a certain age (late 50's) everyone should have to road test for their driver?s license each year. I am sick of getting stuck behind old people who are going 20 under the speed limit or old ladies who merge in to my lane without looking or almost hit people in parking lots.
His. He writes about the culinary world and it's kind of autobiographical, talking about the kitchens he worked in. Several restuaants of his shut down and the blame is always with someone else.
Nope. He and his Michelin stars are too cool for the food network.
FTFY
It's not his fault he couldn't get his fancy Doctorate like that twat Dr. Pepper...he's gotta do what he's gotta do to get that monay.
ETA: your mom.