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Hi everyone! Tomorrow I have an extremely busy day, I have a new student orientation that lasts 8 and a half hours. I already notified the school I’ll have to take 30 minute breaks every 3ish hours.

With that being said, I am curious if the “fridge hack” can apply to these situations. I have a large yeti hard cooler I’ll be bringing for my pumped milk, and I’ll be indoors mostly the entire day. In this case, could i potentially get by (safely) with just my eufy pumps (one flange set) and do the “fridge hack” with them, or should I play it safe and bring multiple pump sets of my spectra? The cooler is quite large but do they stay cold enough for the fridge hack to be safe? My son is 6m if that means anything.

I am about 6m postpartum. Is it a common phenomenon for ftm or postpartum moms to feel this way? Even making myself breakfast I think why am I doing this for myself I should be with my baby or taking care of house work? Or if I get dressed and put makeup on I literally feel embarrassed, feeling like a pig with makeup on and thinking I look stupid for even trying to feel good. Like in a way I believe I don’t deserve the good feelings either when there is more important stuff going on.

I use to be the type of person to do my makeup everyday, and I loved dressing in least a cute shirt with comfy pants like yoga pants. These days I just wear whatever fits or doesn’t suffocate me. And the days I do get ready my boyfriend doesn’t notice or compliment me anymore. I spent 30 minutes on my makeup the other day for an occasion and I just felt horrendous.

Breastfeeding is making it hard for me to lose weight. Where I live is already in the hundreds so walks are out of the question. Don’t have my license so can’t take me and baby anywhere while my boyfriend works. I just feel so so stuck and ugly and feel shame for feeling these things.

Does anyone else experience this?? I started nursing my baby more when we started cosleeping for obvious reasons and it’d like he has to be latched all night, he will wake up within 5 minutes if I unlatch him. Lately I’ve been woke up like 6+ times to relatch him (that I can remember, probably more). At his 4m check up, he shot up from almost 13lbs at 3ms to nearly 18lbs.. must be related to him eating LITERALLY ALL NIGHT !! I wake up so thirsty most days my throat feels like a desert from all the drinking he does. I love the night nursing though because I wake up in the morning to my baby staring at me with the biggest smile 🥹 it just makes everything ever in life feel worth it 💝

Towards the end when bear takes all the sleeping pills and he tries to throw up, it looks like he faces some sort of mental clarity and then he leaves the room with a huge smile on his face as he approaches Nikki and they dance and kiss

Then it pans to her willow tree stick broken so i assume she used the stick to wish he’d love her back but it was too late as the overdose already kicked in??

How do you hand express without making a huge mess??? I can’t seem to get a let down. I’m trying to hand express because I have clogged ducts. But milk only beads up at my nipple and makes a huge mess.

before i had my first son, i always pictured having 2-3 kids.

well after my first son.. i figure im one and done after that entire postpartum period. hormonal nightmare. the first week postpartum i was convinced i ruined my life.
it was extremely dark.

so im curious for moms who went through a similar experience for their first baby, what was different with your 2nd baby? besides it feeling “easier” since you had a baby before. were the baby blues just as crazy?

Has anyone tried liquid gold? If so , how did you and your baby react to it? I’m terrified to cause a reaction for my baby or me but my supply’s been struggling! If you or baby had an allergic reaction how long did it take to show? And did the supplement actually help increase your supply

Hi everyone,

Does anyone with Medi-cal, specifically through Kaiser Permanente, have experience ordering milk bags through insurance? The site I was directed to and ordered my pump from does not have any sort of replacement parts or storage bag section (byran baby)

How long can a root canal safely sit without a cap?

I’ve always bounced between being a underproducer and a just enougher. I never have more than 2 feedings worth in the fridge. I honesty get so jealous over people with freezer and even fridge stashes. I would love to be able to not worry about feeding my baby and also even potentially quitting pumping earlier because of a stash that’ll last a little bit. I know social media is the worse place and shows unrealistic things and that oversupply’s aren’t normal but wow, sometimes I feel bad

As my baby approaches the age where his teeth start growing in, I have some questions

1. Was your baby never ending inconsolable? Or is it just moments where it bothered them more than other times in the day

2. How long does the teething phase typically last and does eating/drinking make it more painful?