u/ImpeccableCilantro

Are any of your restaurants offering limited menus to avoid turning the ovens on?

Honestly I think we need to start requiring hazard pay and mandating extra breaks for cooling in workplaces where the temperature gets too high

As a general rule, do servers split their tips with you in Halifax? If not, if we give a separate tip for the kitchen in the heatwave, will you actually receive it?

If your restaurants offering limited is taking care of you, I’d love to know where so I have a shortlist of places I want to support

Apologies if this is repetitive—I searched the topic, and most of the posts were old and/or for older babies

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First time mom with a large and long baby. He’s 12 weeks, and around 14lbs

My Moby wrap is getting warm for both of us, and a pal suggested that there are more comfortable options as baby gets bigger anyway

What are people’s favourite options for the summer months?

Hi folks. My breastfeeding journey has been complicated, and I’m worried that I’m too late to really build a sufficient supply.

Looking for hope, but also trying to set realistic expectations of what is actually possible for us

Bullet form for clarity

C section breech baby. 100th percentile for height and 96th for weight. He continues to float above the growth chart

Milk was delayed coming in, hospital provided donor milk for the first night then switched to formula.

Severe postpartum nausea for first four weeks after milk came in: I was eating less than a meal a day and debated skipping pain meds because even water made me ill

Dehydration meant low supply, baby started to fight latching (I don’t blame him-I would power pump and end up with less than an ounce in those days)

Nausea went away suddenly in week 4, and we used a nipple shield and syringe to coax baby back to the breast.

Baby is now 8 weeks. He will nurse for half an hour, then drink 4-5 ounces of formula

Prescribed domperidone two weeks ago to boost my supply. I can get 2 ounces from a power pump now after a month of decent nutrition and two weeks on meds

*I worry that I missed the critical window to regulate my supply. I am ok with combo feeding if that’s what baby needs, but I would love to flip the ratio of breast milk to formula. It’s getting harder and harder to justify the time spend pumping to boost my supply when it is still nowhere near what my baby needs

Is this possible at 8 weeks? Am I being unrealistic?