LO is 6 months, we’ve introduced a few foods already (including puréed beef liver and ground beef mixed w/ broccoli) but would love to know what other parents are doing.
We were looking into Earth’s Best Organic Oatmeal but I read terrible reviews, so we’ve decided against it.
Any other ideas? We’d like to avoid any synthetically enriched grains.
LO will be 5 months next week, I’ve been pumping since he was around 3-4 weeks old (so about 4 months straight).
I started off with 15-20 min sessions but realized I wasn’t empty, so when I went back to work (when babe was 9.5 weeks old) I started doing 30-min pump sessions and found I was getting an additional 1-2 oz on average each time.
I’ve been told that our bodies get “more efficient” and it takes less time (a woman I work with said she worked up to fully emptying in ~8 mins). Is this possible for all women or only some?
I’m the main cook in the house by choice, and I love making tasty meals for my husband.
I’d love to add a few killer vegan/veg dishes to our lineup. He’s typically a ‘meat every meal’ kinda guy, but he’s open to dishes that don’t have meat, so long as they’re yummy. Plus, meat is getting more expensive and I don’t really trust it (we mostly shop at Walmart, Lidl, etc. for affordability).
Please share recipes if there are specific dishes you’d recommend.
I purchased the Legendairy Milk brand which claim to be mostly clean. I’ve never had a reaction to any type of sunflower product in my life (seeds, oil, butter) but it would seem my body doesn’t like the lecithin.
I have no other known allergies and I just had my first (and I pray last) bout of mastitis 3 weeks ago.
I’m also prone to clogs it would seem so I’m open to trying anything that could help me decrease the chances of more clogs or another run in with mastitis.
Any advice??
Woke up last night with these symptoms:
- shaking uncontrollably/freezing
- fever of 101
- insane headache
- very lethargic and achy
- breast pain: firm and engorged feeling (some redness but no striations)
I’ve been down and out today (definitely feels like flu-ish symptoms) but trying to pump every 4 hours or so to remove milk. Fever went away after taking Motrin but has since returned (101).
Is there anything I can do to reverse this or is it too late? I really want to hold off if so and avoid taking antibiotics if I’m not at that stage yet.
LO is 9.5 weeks old, I’m a FTM and feel so hopeless
Like clockwork around 45 minutes to an hour after almost every feed, he starts crying and gets really fussy—it’s almost impossible to console him until we hear him poop. Once he does, he normally settles, but this could take 20-30 minutes or more.
We burp him after feeds and attempt holding him in different positions (gently bringing knees to chest, etc.) to relieve gas pains and encourage a poop before it gets to the inconsolable point but nothing seems to work — not consistently at least.
Any ideas on what we can do? We hate seeing him like this 🥺
For reference baby is 5 weeks and I either breastfeed him or my husband feeds him a bottle of pumped milk.