WT... Wednesday 02/18 Edition

[Lola]

WTF UPS? Im waiting for my stitch fix, and your tracking stops at a shipping facility on 2/16. Where are my clothes?

[Lola]

@iheartmyshiba, I dont even answer the door when its just me and the Lo home. What was he thinking!

[GrrArgh]

WTF client... I don't think it's possible for you to be any more disorganized. Not going to rearrange my schedule or put off work from organized clients given to me ahead of time to do all your last minute crap.

[Leapinglizards]

Wtf dog. Why do you want to lick the baby's poop off of her clothes/butt/diapers.

Trying to wrangle her to change her diaper and not get poop on EVERYTHING is bad enough without trying to keep you away from everything

And it make me want to vomit

[sararl07]

WTF DH...I fell asleep rocking DD last night and you left me there. I woke up at 1:30 with creck in my neck and you were sound asleep in the middle of the bed. Would have been nice if you woke me up. Grumpy and tired.

[Leapinglizards]

Feb 18, 2015 13:30:36 GMT -5 Lola said:

@iheartmyshiba, I dont even answer the door when its just me and the Lo home. What was he thinking!

I've been wanting my husband to install a peephole but I'm sure it'll take a year for it to get done. To me it's so weird when people walk around trying to sell stuff in the middle of the day when they know it's just pretty much wives and kids home

[sararl07]

I never answer the door.

It's worse when you are trying to sleep in on the weekends (pre baby) and there was some kid ringing the door bell trying to sell something. I never had an experience of someone ringing a doorbell when dd was napping.

[jnnfrrose6]

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

[Lola]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

Im sorry that really sucks. We are using the Earths Best Sensitive formula. It seems to cause the least amount of gas, but when we switched from BM for formula it took a few weeks for the gas to get better anyway. 

[sararl07]

@iheartmyshiba,
I did wake him up...but this morning he woke up all in a good mood and wanted to cuddle ....I was still grumpy and he didn't remember why I was upset.

[dawnfire]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

Right there with ya.  We looked at the formula at the store this past weekend and I felt a little overwhelmed!  If you need more Formula Feeding info, some other ladies were kind enough to answer my questions in the Random thread. (Mostly about bottles and how to transition to FF.)

[dawnfire]

And WTF boobs, not only is your milk production subpar, but you've gone from looking awesome to looking like deflated balloons. While I'm glad to not feel like Dolly Parton, it was kind of nice to have curves!

[Liv]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

Sorry, I know that having a sudden drop off can be frustrating and a little scary! I'm down to nursing DD just once a day and that doesn't even fill her up. We have been using the Wegman's store brand organic powder. It's about 8 dollars less per canister and doesn't have corn syrup solids as the first ingredient. We've done a few Emfamil and Gerber samples too with no adverse effects. Good luck with the switch-- hopefully it'll mean less stress for you! 

[Lola]

Feb 18, 2015 15:02:07 GMT -5 Leapinglizards said:

Wtf dog. Why do you want to lick the baby's poop off of her clothes/butt/diapers.

Trying to wrangle her to change her diaper and not get poop on EVERYTHING is bad enough without trying to keep you away from everything

And it make me want to vomit

One of my dogs tries to eat/roll in/drag around pee or poop cloth diapers. It is so gross!

[Lola]

Feb 18, 2015 15:41:16 GMT -5 Liv said:

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

Sorry, I know that having a sudden drop off can be frustrating and a little scary! I'm down to nursing DD just once a day and that doesn't even fill her up. We have been using the Wegman's store brand organic powder. It's about 8 dollars less per canister and doesn't have corn syrup solids as the first ingredient. We've done a few Emfamil and Gerber samples too with no adverse effects. Good luck with the switch-- hopefully it'll mean less stress for you! 

I didn't know Wegmans had their own organic brand! Do you know if they have a sensitive version? I have been ordering the Earths Best on amazon for a discount, but its still about $23/cannister. 

[Liv]

Feb 18, 2015 15:43:34 GMT -5 Lola said:

Feb 18, 2015 15:41:16 GMT -5 Liv said:

Sorry, I know that having a sudden drop off can be frustrating and a little scary! I'm down to nursing DD just once a day and that doesn't even fill her up. We have been using the Wegman's store brand organic powder. It's about 8 dollars less per canister and doesn't have corn syrup solids as the first ingredient. We've done a few Emfamil and Gerber samples too with no adverse effects. Good luck with the switch-- hopefully it'll mean less stress for you! 

I didn't know Wegmans had their own organic brand! Do you know if they have a sensitive version? I have been ordering the Earths Best on amazon for a discount, but its still about $23/cannister. 

I think they have a "Gentle" one, but it's not organic. The one we get is about 17 bucks, so it might be worth a shot to see if your LO does ok on it!

[honeybee434]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

I hope this is just a today thing! When I had done formula research before I was sure I wanted to BF I was going to go with Baby's Only. But, I'm extra organic/ingredient paranoid than most people. I really liked a German formula the best. Apparently the EU has much stricter formula requirements than the U.S. from what I've read, which I was surprised at!

[mary1217]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:47 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

WTF!!! I just pumped 2 ounces. TWO OUNCES!!! Hello body, she's 8 months old, not 2 weeks. I've been seeing a slight decline, but this is ridiculous. I think I'm over it. Anyone have any formula recommendations? I don't even know where to begin with brands.

My Pedi recommended similac sensitive and its what we have used ever since. 

[jnnfrrose6]

Thanks for the recs ladies.
dawnfire, I saw your question on the other thread the other day, so I feel ok about that aspect of it. I think if I go this route, I'll still pump and nurse on my normal schedule, but just have formula available if I come up short for any reason so I don't have to stress about my stash in the freezer or having enough for DC the next day.

Liv, no Wegman's in the south, so that's a no go for us (I do have a Wegman's reusable tote, fwiw. The hubs is from upstate NY and went to school on the finger lakes and we got one when we were up for his college reunion a few years ago).

@iheartmyshiba, I'll probably go with something like that, just need to do a bit more research, but now I've actually got somewhere to start.

honeybee434, I'm really not surprised the EU has stricter standards on stuff like that. Look at your school lunches compared to ours. It's ridiculous what passes for "healthy" here.

[mary1217]

Feb 18, 2015 16:20:48 GMT -5 Cdnfroggy said:

WTF self...what is with this cough you've held onto for 1.5 weeks...it's time to let it go!

I had the same thing and finally had to go to the doc and get cough syrup with codeine.  That stuff is amazing. 

[lucanjo14]

@jnnfrrose we use the target brand of enfamil and are pretty happy with it. Less expensive than the name brand.

WTF baby why are you so tired but unable to sleep? And why are you pulling up to stand and into everything? You are a serious handful, good thing you're cute.

[mamanorris]

Feb 18, 2015 15:43:34 GMT -5 Lola said:

Feb 18, 2015 15:41:16 GMT -5 Liv said:

Sorry, I know that having a sudden drop off can be frustrating and a little scary! I'm down to nursing DD just once a day and that doesn't even fill her up. We have been using the Wegman's store brand organic powder. It's about 8 dollars less per canister and doesn't have corn syrup solids as the first ingredient. We've done a few Emfamil and Gerber samples too with no adverse effects. Good luck with the switch-- hopefully it'll mean less stress for you! 

I didn't know Wegmans had their own organic brand! Do you know if they have a sensitive version? I have been ordering the Earths Best on amazon for a discount, but its still about $23/cannister. 

I have read that the Walmart organic is made by earths best, might be something to look into!

[Lola]

Feb 18, 2015 20:40:44 GMT -5 mamanorris said:

Feb 18, 2015 15:43:34 GMT -5 Lola said:

I didn't know Wegmans had their own organic brand! Do you know if they have a sensitive version? I have been ordering the Earths Best on amazon for a discount, but its still about $23/cannister. 

I have read that the Walmart organic is made by earths best, might be something to look into!

Awesome, thanks!

[honeybee434]

Feb 18, 2015 16:25:31 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

Feb 18, 2015 16:18:15 GMT -5 honeybee434 said:

I hope this is just a today thing! When I had done formula research before I was sure I wanted to BF I was going to go with Baby's Only. But, I'm extra organic/ingredient paranoid than most people. I really liked a German formula the best. Apparently the EU has much stricter formula requirements than the U.S. from what I've read, which I was surprised at!

When I was looking into formula I was going to go with Baby's Only but it said it's for toddlers and that threw me off. I liked that it didn't have corn syrup in it (my sister has a corn syrup allergy so in general I like to stay away from it).

It threw me off, too! From what I could tell when reading is it was fine for infants, but they do the toddler thing to try to recommend BF'ing for the first year.

[mary1217]

Feb 19, 2015 0:50:51 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

Feb 18, 2015 23:48:51 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

That makes sense but it's so odd at the same time! I thought we are supposed to switch to regular milk at a year old and that toddlers don't need formula anymore. They should just market it as baby formula! Unless I'm missing something and toddlers still need breastmilk or formula.

Following! I thought the same thing that at a year they switch to milk

My cousin's wife said she gave her son one bottle of toddler formula at night because he wasn't a great eater when it came to regular food. 

[honeybee434]

Holle formula is what I found that I was seriously going to try to import from Europe. People say that their LO's poop is similar consistency as BM poop and less like formula poop. It's apparently the closest thing to BM you can get on the market today.

I double checked on the other thing and online it says that the nutritional benefit is the same for infants and toddlers in the Baby's Only formula and it's just a marketing thing.

I'm guessing some people just would rather keep giving their kids formula maybe vs cows milk? I'm honestly not huge into cows milk for kids, but not enough to do much about it.

[jnnfrrose6]

Period came today, so hopefully that explains the huge dip pumping yesterday, though I've been seeing a steady decrease for over a week. Still going to figure out formula as a back up because I've got maybe 12 oz in the freezer and just can't get myself to the spot mentally to do all the work required to increase that.

[liziz]

Feb 18, 2015 23:51:55 GMT -5 Cdnfroggy said:

Feb 18, 2015 16:44:37 GMT -5 mary1217 said:

I had the same thing and finally had to go to the doc and get cough syrup with codeine.  That stuff is amazing. 

I was on that a few years ago and it was amazing...but at that time I was also coughing until I threw up, which is really sucky. If it keeps up for more than a few more days I might have to go in. Does anyone know what cough syrups are safe to take while BF'ing?

I got the same advice as while pregnant - Robitussin DM is fine (has an expectorant, and a drug that inhibits your cough reflex), but don't take a decongestant.

I also took Delsym (which is just the drug that inhibits your cough reflex).

[honeybee434]

Feb 19, 2015 11:51:13 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

Period came today, so hopefully that explains the huge dip pumping yesterday, though I've been seeing a steady decrease for over a week. Still going to figure out formula as a back up because I've got maybe 12 oz in the freezer and just can't get myself to the spot mentally to do all the work required to increase that.

Mine came back today, too. I hate periods. And how they affect my supply. As if BF'ing and pumping wasn't hard enough my period has to be thrown into the mix?? Ugh. I already pumped more today than I did any other morning this week so hopefully that was all my problem was as well. I will add extra weekend pumpings in, but I don't think I can do extra weekday. Still making lactation cookies this weekend in case.

[jnnfrrose6]

Feb 19, 2015 12:52:40 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

Feb 19, 2015 12:39:59 GMT -5 honeybee434 said:

Mine came back today, too. I hate periods. And how they affect my supply. As if BF'ing and pumping wasn't hard enough my period has to be thrown into the mix?? Ugh. I already pumped more today than I did any other morning this week so hopefully that was all my problem was as well. I will add extra weekend pumpings in, but I don't think I can do extra weekday. Still making lactation cookies this weekend in case.

I think for my first my supply didn't recover until it was over. Hasn't been the case with the rest though. Back to normal as soon as it starts.

I think that was one of my favorite things about being pregnant. No period.

Yeah, this isn't my first one since she was born (think its the third?), but I didn't see such a dip on the others so I didn't even consider that being the reason. We'll see how it goes. I have already pumped 2 oz today (morning session I didn't get yesterday which is always better).