u/Strok3MyWookiee

So I have been running Kirkland Pellets on my Traeger Pellet Grill for awhile now. I’ve been testing different pellet brands and flavors to see if there’s a difference. I started with using the B&B Post Oak on a Trisket and now I’m using Bear Mountain Hickory on 2 pork butts.

I thought that a single flavor pellet would be 100% that wood, but I’m finding out that it’s still typically a blend, for example Bear Mountain uses a base wood and is only about 30% hickory.

So do pellets actually matter? I haven’t tested enough to know one way or the other and I’m curious what others have found before I start shelling out for different types of wood when Kirkland will do the same thing. I’m fine with paying more for better/different flavor, just want to make sure it’s actually there.

So my wife and I just had our 2nd a few days ago and it’s thrown our routine into the wind.

With our first, we were in the suck together at night and we’d get naps in throughout the day. Now, that isn’t as viable since we have a toddler. My wife is exclusively breastfeeding the newborn, so she’s waking up at night to feed even when I take the newborn at nights for her.

My question: how are other parents dividing the workload? We’ve debated me keeping the toddler’s schedule and my wife being available for the newborn, but it isn’t sustainable since I’m going back to work in 3 months and work 2p-12a. Maybe by then the newborn will regulate? This option also is just throwing my wife to the metaphorical dogs that are a newborns at night.

We’re currently doing this hybrid thing where once the toddler goes to bed, my wife winds down and tries to sleep herself, and then halfway through the night, we switch. But neither of us are getting long enough amounts/stretches of sleep this way.

Any advice is appreciated. I’m typing this as I have to be up in 5 hours for the pediatrician, because new newborn patients are her first of the day, as if our sleep schedule didn’t suck enough already.