Everytime I side lie my boobs fall out of place (old crappy Auden bra, same goes for my kindred braveley pumping bras). A cold nip every. time. I’m fed up! Maybe this is just mom boob problems. I have let this go for a year and been researching but running out of time & this very soon to be STM needs a better solution!
I unfortunately don’t have parents in my life. We’ve moved close to my in laws but my MIL has a serious medical condition so she thinks she can but actually is unsafe to take care of kids. I didn’t know this before I agreed to move. It’s a new job for my husband that is 12 hr days & a few weekends of the month.
Now sitting at month 13 of LO life. I am doing baby led weaning & it’s not going well. Bc of pregnancy we’re on toddler drink formula now & it’s not satisfying them. I do the lower end of the formula recommendation to try to promote them to eat better but I let them have bottles first still because otherwise it’s miserable to try to feed hangry. They wakeup 1-4 times a night. Previously were good sleepers & would wake up one or two times rarely. Other than that developmentally very smart and well behaved if I can give them a lot of attention. I’m exhausted now that it’s the last month of pregnancy. I literally hate feeding LO and it’s struggle to make it thru the day on 2 hours of sleep. My husband does help with night time but he leaves for work at like 430. LO seemingly is transitioning to one nap.. varies from 30-90 mins but almost always the lower end. Husband is supposed to be off 2 mo for paternity leave. I’m trying to hold out. I have no idea what to expect when the next one comes. My community has obviously been broken down completely so that’s a huge issue for me.
Did you feel like you needed a nanny or babysitter to help manage the energy after the second child arrived?
ETA: we live in a town that doesn’t have a stoplight. The closest ‘resources’ are almost an hour away
We had major life stressors happen that slowed us from BLW & bad guidance we followed from the pediatrician so we are where we are. 12 mo, barely eats anything, on GOAT toddler drink formula, hasn’t tried cows milk or regular goat milk. Has only eaten 3 serenity pureed pouch foods (2 squash blends, one with bison) & applesauce but has had lots of things put on the tray since 6 months but then we stopped and restarted about 10.5 mo: berries, avocado, eggs, banana, broccoli, chicken…and a few others. We did mess up and were not letting them be messy enough at first or take off our plates but have swallowed that.
Started to prepare food & feed before bottle in the AM but it’s not gone well (hangry). And after reading 1/2 way thru Rapley’s BLW book I can’t find anything that says we should be feeding LO hungry at 12mo. LO is not satisfied by the toddler drink anyways and cries when it’s done. When we have tried feeding LO from our lap and the plate we’re eating off of this past week, LO actually fed us the food but won’t put anything to their lips & tosses head away. We have stopped trying to make her taste the food even to their lips.
Thoughts are to keep LO on the toddler drink the next two months, keep trying foods & using pouch if it doesn’t seem to work but only for lunch & dinner & then gradually work breakfast in. LO has not tried to chew anything but always does the motion when they see us eating. We are trying different texture foods. Am I missing a concern about anything here? Like I said we are where we are because of unchangeable circumstances rn
Any other helpful tips welcome; please be kind I’m almost full term with their sibling
Former EBF turned pregnant & formula feeding mom. I’m prepping to possibly have to pump for my next child if they can’t BF. I have the spectra s1, but would like to get a wearable too. Has anyone tried the spectra wearable? Likes/ dislikes?? TIA!
It’s not our home (relative) but we have to do repairs. The floor was replaced in our bathroom. We moved in and haven’t used that particular bathroom in 5 weeks but found a puddle of water around the toilet from the back of the toilet to the front on the right side. i pressed down on the floor & water oozed out from it. We dried out the floor with a fan. Now what?
I think we should take the toilet up to see what the problem was. To me the seal has already been broken or the water line is an issue. But we had closed the water off and haven’t used it other than a periodic flush (1/day) or seen water since. Husband thinks we should wait until there’s an issue.
What is the correct thing to do?
ETA: the flapper valve was replaced and the toilet had been leaking previously but we’re not sure if it was seated incorrectly and when we moved it around to fix it that it would have fixed the leak. This also may have nothing to do with the leak on the floor idk