Looking for opinions on daycares in Frazer. We are currently between the Malvern school, Goddard, Warwick, and the Malvern Academy. Baby will be in the infants room and 6-7 months when starting.
Basically what the title says. I’ve been digging on this sub and can’t find anything more recent than a year on this topic, so I wanted to ask it again. Baby is 10 weeks old, has silent reflux and is on famotidine. She has been eating store brand nutramigen from target and pumped breast milk (50/50 ratio). I don’t have exclude anything from my diet so I don’t think she has any allergies that warrant being on a hypoallergenic formula. I also don’t like how thin it is because I think it makes it easier for her to spit up.
I’ve tried blue similac and purple Enfamil and I’m willing to try them again. It’s been over a month since we used those formulas and in that time we have tweaked her meds enough to know they’re working. We’ve also been working with an OT to improve her latch and she is swallowing so much less air on the bottle. I have a sample of lactose free similac as well that I am thinking about trying.
When trying new formulas, do you slowly introduce it or just switch cold turkey?
I’m 8 weeks PP tomorrow and I want to throw in towel so badly on breastfeeding. Nursing was super painful from the beginning and so I went to exclusively pumping for a few weeks which was pure hell. Around week 5 I finally found a lactation consultant who referred me to an OT for her oral motor dysfunction. (She just flops her tongue all around and doesn’t know what to do with it). I also saw a pediatric dentist who identified a posterior tongue tie (we did not do the laser yet since I want to see how OT affects her first). It’s been about a week since starting the OT and I do see an improvement with her latch on bottle and breast.
My supply seems to be enough- I still combo pump and nurse so that my husband can help out with feeding. I usually have 3-4 oz everyday to put in the freezer.
Despite breastfeeding improving, I still honestly hate it. She takes 30-40 minutes to eat, falls asleep constantly during the feed, and I have to keep my boob squeezed the entire time or she falls off. We’ve gone from a painful latch to an uncomfortable but tolerable one. Getting her on the boob is like wrangling a shark- she doesn’t open her mouth when she’s hungry and she tenses and pulls her arms up to her face so with only two hands I have to do her OT exercise to help her release her jaw, squeeze my boob, move her hands out of the way, and guide her head onto me. Lately she’s been going from 0-10 with her hunger signals so it’s hard to catch her while she’s still calm and relaxed. One minute she’s happy playing and cooing at her toys and the next she’s crying. To add to the frustration, I have wrist over use injury, and Hypermobile EDS (connective tissue disorder) and all the time spent in breastfeeding/pumping positions is flaring up back and shoulder pain.
To top it off, she eats every 1.5 hours when on the boob, so by the time she finished eating, I have an hour before it starts all over again. Baby has reflux too, so 20 minutes is spent keeping her upright after eating, then about 15-20 minutes to settle to her to sleep and put her in the bassinet.
All of the women in my life talk about how wonderful breastfeeding their babies has been, but I cannot relate to this at all. Is it still just too early in my breastfeeding journey to have a good handle on it?
Edit to add: I go back to work when baby is 15 weeks. I’ll be gone 7:30-4, monday-Thursday. If it takes until week 12 to get a good handle on BF, then I have just three weeks of actually enjoying my time with her (not that I don’t enjoy it now. It’s just harder with constantly sore nipples) before I go back to work and who knows what that will do to my supply.
I don’t have mastitis as far as I know but idk what else to tag this especially since the pictures are gross. I keep finding these little balls of what I assume are dried milk in my bra a few hours after pumping. This is the third one now in the last day and a half. If it was just dried or leaky milk, why would it be red? Has this happened to anyone else? If so what is it?
38+ 3 and an elective induction is sounding more and more appealing. My practice offers them after 39 weeks.
I’m just wondering what were your experiences with inductions? If you chose to schedule one after 39 weeks that was not medically necessary, why?