u/Overall-Weird8856

I've searched Google and Ravelry and still haven't found what I'm looking for. I have a standard nursing cover, but it's solid, it's black, and it's hot...and summer is coming. I'm hoping to make a betterone to take its place.

Has anyone done this? Do you have a pattern to share? Preferably a free one because I'm obviously not working with a 6 week old baby LOL 😅

I picked the closest flair I could figure was relevant. I have a pre-made nursing cover, but it's solid, it's black, and it's hot. I'm a decent crocheter, so I was hoping to make one to take its place.

Has anyone done this? Do you have a pattern to share? Preferably a free one because I'm obviously not working with a 6 week old baby LOL 😅

5 1/2 weeks in and I haven't been trying to change the environment when she sleeps during the day so as to keep her sense of night and day normal. Like I allow noises, will vacuum and leave the curtains open with the sun shining.

Is this right though? What do you do?

My daughter is 5 weeks old and I just heard about this. She's EBF and nearly every diaper is a mixed bag of wet and dirty, so still lots of poo going on. Just today she had a poo-splosion right on the changing table!

I can appreciate the importance of airflow and I do my best to make sure she's dry before putting on her new diaper, but should I be setting out an intentional time for letting it all hang out? How do you do it?

Totally grossed myself out today. I don't typically leak during the day, but I wear nursing pads because I'm only 4 weeks in and the fabric of my bras is painfully irritating to my nipples. I'm still in the thick of it where I'm only able to shower every 2 to 3 days, and I change my nursing bra after I shower.

Lefty leaks at night, but I thought that was it.

Today I had just changed my little one and sat down to nurse, and I thought to myself, "wow, did you really just poop already? That stinks!"

I went to switch her from right to left, and she made a face. Hmm. That's odd. She reluctantly latched and we went on with our business.

A little bit later, it hit me. I pulled the pad out of my left side, and it had literal weight to it. OMG. I gave it a sniff. OMG. I have been walking around smelling like rancid milk, which coincidentally smells baby poo-esque.

Lefty does not just leak at night, it seems. Lefty has been leaving a stink and I didn't know. Thank God I haven't left the house in almost a month.

So I grossed myself out today. Baby girl is 4 weeks old. I"m still in the trenches. I'm still bathing like every 2-3 days, and I'll change into a different nursing bra after a shower. I have nursing pads in the cups not because I was leaking, but because the fabric of the bra was hurting my sensitive nipples.

Today I'm sitting here with LO, nursing her right after a diaper change, and I'm thinking, "wow, why does it smell like you just pooped?" Ew.

I switched her from right to left and she made a face. Hmm. That's weird. She reluctantly latched, we went about our business...

Then it hit me. The pad. I leak on the left at night, but not during the day, right?

WRONG. FLAT OUT EFFING WRONG. I took out the pad that had literal weight to it, gave it a sniff, and OMG. Sour milk. I've been walking around smelling of rancid milk, which coincidentally smells awfully close to baby poo.

No wonder she made a face. And thank God I haven't left the house in almost a month! I feel so gross.

Babe is only coming up on 3 weeks old. I started pumping on Monday to build a stash for Daddy to feed her, and I had just washed the pump parts/bottle. Laid them out on a towel on the kitchen table to dry. Took baby into the bedroom for diaper change, came back out to find my idiot cat chewing on the silicone valve.

There's a gaping hole in it. 4 days. I got to use it for 4 days. I hate him right now.

Almost 3 weeks PP and I am sick and tired of wearing pads!!

I HATE sleeping in underwear and I cannot wait for the lochia to go TF away already. I keep thinking it's almost done and then it's like, "ah HA!! GOTCHA!!"

end rant. 😮‍💨