Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. Occasional pumping. Not much success on the bottle.
Questions/AW? Eh, not really.
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.)
We just bought the house in September and it is a significant upgrade from our first house, so I'm still a bit in the honeymoon phase where I love pretty much everything. But since it's getting warm, I'll say I love the backyard. We have real grass this time, and it's so big and open. Least favorite thing is either the $300 heating bills in the winter, or the fact that you have to run the sink/shower/tub for a solid 2-3 minutes before you get any hot water. Annoying.
Post by toadandbuggie on May 4, 2015 8:37:29 GMT -5
How old is your LO? 3 months (15 weeks)
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. Only pumping a tiny bit to produce an ounce or so to try to get LO to take the F@#$%^#$%$ bottle.
Questions/AW? So, bottle refusal is pretty frustrating and stressful. Especially when I am planning on putting LO in daycare 3 times a week in a month. I am going to try my hardest to get him to take the bottle, BUT I know that I can stop by the daycare and feed him 3 times a day and that should be enough (I think). He eats on demand now, but it's pretty much every 2/3-4 hours. My plan is this:
7am feeding 8am drop off daycare 10am stop by daycare & feed 1-2 stop by daycare & feed
Then I could stop by and feed him again but I get out of work at 4:30 so I probably wouldn't have to. What do you guys think about this plan? (if he won't take the bottle)
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.)
My favorite thing is the cathedral ceilings in my living room which let a ton of light in. My least favorite part is my house is very drafty & can get super cold in the winter.
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping on occation.
Questions/AW? On Saturday I pumped before going to bed and DH did the MOTN feeding so I could get to sleep through the night. I woke up when she did anyway because she screamed a little, but just knowing I could get back to sleep right away was a bliss. Our plan is to do this at least once every weekend until she STTN.
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.)
We moved to a bigger apartment last September and at first it felt too big for just the two of us, but since DD was born I just love having all this space! I also love the location, it is way more convenient than the last place.
Least favorite: The rent! It's super expensive, esp now when we have a lower income during my leave.
toadandbuggie good luck with the bottle, I can sympathize! I have to get better about even trying to get him to take it. Do you give the bottle when you try or have someone else do it?
My LO won't go to daycare until August, but I don't have the flexibility to go there and feed him throughout the day, so I'm worried.
I never thought it would be this hard to get a baby to drink from a bottle. I'm kinda calling bullshit on the nipple confusion and don't think I'd wait as long as I did to give my next baby a bottle.
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing mostly with occasional pumping.
Questions/AW? Brady gets so excited to nurse that he squeals at least once a day. It cracks me up!
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) I love my bathroom! I soak in my big tub every night just to keep my sanity. I don't think I could live in a house with a standard size tub.
Nursing. Occasional pump so DH can give a bottle. We've not successfully given a bottle so he didn't have to nurse to finish up, but the most we've given him is 2oz.
No questions or AW right now!
GTKY: I love that my house is set up so well - it's small but uses all its space perfectly. I dislike that we don't have a dishwasher. I dislike that more and more the longer we live here. I haven't had a dishwasher in over 5 years.
mands1125 good luck going back to work! junebugjam & toadandbuggie sorry the bottle is still giving y'all trouble. Toadandbuggie - I think your schedule will work if necessary, but I would be worried about interrupting both your work day and LO's daycare routine. Especially as he gets older if he sees mama that often he may want you all day. I don't have any words of wisdom but I guess just keep trying the bottle and hopefully even if he won't take it from you, he'll take it at daycare.
Post by greenpony33 on May 4, 2015 14:11:12 GMT -5
How old is your LO? 8 weeks today Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping for returning to work ]Questions/AW? I go back to work this Thu as well. For everyone who has gone back did you give frozen milk for the first day back or were you able to pump enough fresh milk the dsys before you went back? we have frozen milk I can send with him, but I was hoping to pump enough in these three days at the beginning of the week so that he can have fresh, I just don't see myself being able to stockpile that much in 3 days (I'll be gone about 14 hrs/day).
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) I love the location, We're in a neighborhood but there is a field behind us so we still feel like it's a little bit country, and don't have neighbors right on top of us. Thing I hate is that we have no closets except for in the bedrooms, no linen closet, which I knew when we moved in but now with DS here it seems that we have even less space.
Post by greenpony33 on May 4, 2015 14:15:08 GMT -5
toadandbuggie your schedule seems like it would work to me, but like already mentioned I would worry about being productive during the day. But you gotta do what you gotta do and its nice you have that option if needed!
How old is your LO? 8 weeks today Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping for returning to work ]Questions/AW? I go back to work this Thu as well. For everyone who has gone back did you give frozen milk for the first day back or were you able to pump enough fresh milk the dsys before you went back? we have frozen milk I can send with him, but I was hoping to pump enough in these three days at the beginning of the week so that he can have fresh, I just don't see myself being able to stockpile that much in 3 days (I'll be gone about 14 hrs/day).
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) I love the location, We're in a neighborhood but there is a field behind us so we still feel like it's a little bit country, and don't have neighbors right on top of us. Thing I hate is that we have no closets except for in the bedrooms, no linen closet, which I knew when we moved in but now with DS here it seems that we have even less space.
I'm pumping only but I didn't have frozen milk for the sitter just milk for a day or two before. I keep 30-40 oz (6 bags) in the fridge at a time. Then I freeze the extra. Milk Lasts in the fridge for about a week. So if you have it from the day before or so you don't have to freeze it.
toadandbuggie good luck with the bottle, I can sympathize! I have to get better about even trying to get him to take it. Do you give the bottle when you try or have someone else do it?
My LO won't go to daycare until August, but I don't have the flexibility to go there and feed him throughout the day, so I'm worried.
I never thought it would be this hard to get a baby to drink from a bottle. I'm kinda calling bullshit on the nipple confusion and don't think I'd wait as long as I did to give my next baby a bottle.
The thing is, he was completely ok with the bottle up until a couple weeks ago. No problems whatsoever. He got bottles since the first week. I read that there is no magic time to introduce the bottle - around 3 months they make the decision they'd rather have Mommas Boob.
And yes, my H, both grandmas, and other relatives have all tried
Nursing. We need to start using the bottle again soon since he starts daycare on the 18th. I'll be pumping at work.
So here's a question I probably shouldn't have at 10 weeks... how do I know how many times to keep offering in a feeding? The only time I'm sure is when he passes out. But sometimes he pulls off and gets fussy while I'm burping, and sometimes he seems content but 10 minutes later he's fussing. Sometimes he's happy after latching back on, but sometimes he'll latch for a minute and pull off. It gets really confusing when he pulls off but then tries to get back on several times.
My favorite is my bed and the kitchen. I love having a gas stove and a wall oven. That wall oven was very nice in pregnancy - no bending over! My least favorite is the fact that we don't have a fireplace.
Post by michelle142 on May 4, 2015 19:13:04 GMT -5
10 weeks 2 days
Nursing. Pumping to replace bottles and for a stash.
Cute thing: dd will randomly pop off the boob just to give me a big grin. I love it!
Gtky: my favorite thing is how spacious it is. I love that there's room to grow and that it will be our forever home. I HATE that there's still carpet in my kitchen and one of the bathrooms. I mean really? Who puts carpet in either of those spaces? Who would think that's a good idea? Wtf?
cougarette I have trouble knowing when he's done also. Lately I try to just keep offering until he flat out refuses or just holds it in his mouth but isn't drinking.
He does the same thing with latching and pulling off over and over when he's still hungry. No clue why!
toadandbuggie that's interesting about the 3 month thing. Mine is 11 weeks so we're getting close, although he's never been great about a bottle. He seems to fight it more lately.
I just asked who gave him the bottle because I haven't tried much since I read they know and are less likely to take from mom but my H thinks I'm crazy. I just cave too fast when he fights the bottle and I know he'll eat if I just breastfeed him.
My mom wants to take him for a whole day and hope that he'll get hungry enough to drink from the bottle but I'm not convinced that's the best idea. I'd probably run it by the doc before I agreed to that.
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Today was my first day pumping at work. LO got fresh milk+ stash at day care. I was able to pump 10 oz at work, which is what I was hoping. That, plus the morning pump gives me about 14 oz a day. Not sure at this point if he'll eat that much at daycare. Today he only ate 7 or 8 oz, but he wasn't there the whole time and it was his first day. I'm guessing he'll start eating more as he gets more comfortable.
The new mothers room at work is awesome. We can schedule time in outlook and its nice and quiet. I was catching up on some email reading while pumping.
Questions/AW? Kinof covered it above
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) Its our first house and its ours. I love its New England feel and the view out the bedroom windows. Least favorite thing: How much work it needs. I currently have holes in my walls from DH putting in new electric. We have 4 rooms in the house that are done or almost done, and 1.5 rooms just hold tools/painting supplies, so I don't really feel moved in.
toadandbuggie, my lo had been given bottles since day 1 pretty much and was fine...until last week. Last week (the week before daycare started) he decided he no longer ate from bottles. Cue me panicing. I spent $50 or so on different bottle types and had DH give him one every day the past 3 or 4 days. He fussed, but eventually took it. From me and my mom he just screeched. Day care said they didn't have issues today though, so fingers crossed he was just being cranky!
cougarette if he refuses the boob twice in a row, I'm done. michelle142 carpet in the kitchen is awful. flyster lots of moms on the BF board say the extra milk pumped when they first go back to work helps start the stash that saves them later down the road when/if pumping output decreases. That mothers room sounds awesome!
lilyelayne,Yeah, I realized my stash isn't all that big when I was picking out what to defrost and bring to day care. I left a few frozen ones for them too, so I only have a few bags left. I pretty much got enough that I felt comfortable starting day care, and then I stopped because its a PITA. I haven't tried anything to bring up my supply ever, but do have some funidgreek I can give a go. Hopefully supply stays up, but we'll see! Its all new
Post by babycfeb2015 on May 4, 2015 20:26:46 GMT -5
How old is your LO? 12 wks Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping on occasion Questions/AW I keep having to pump in the MOTN or after first morning feed because LO only takes one side and its so uncomfortable. I have quite a good feezer stash going but my issues is I literally never use it. What do SAHM who rarely go out do with their stash? Anytime we do give him a bottle its freshly pumped..
Also how long is milk good in the fridge for?
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? Favorite thing is the nursery its so freaking cute. Least is our kitchen its tiny and I love to cook so I get so frustrated in it
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and occasionally pumping for a bottle
Questions/AW? We were able to successfully leave DD and DS with my parents today for a few hours to go see The Avengers! With DS, we waited waaaaaay too long to leave him for the first time and he screamed the entire time we were gone. DD was great, took a bottle from my mom with no trouble, etc. YAY!
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) I love our house. The open floorplan, lots of light, great kitchen and we recently had our master bathroom remodeled. The only thing I don't love is that our usable space in the backyard is small. We have a pool, which I love, but it means that there isn't a lot of room for the kids to run around and play.
Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and supplementing 3oz of formula. I need to pump more, but we've been OOT the last 2 weekends and this weekend with no trudge to store milk. My stash is little and I need it for going back to work in 3 weeks.
Questions/AW? On track to have a 20lb 6month old. Granted he started out at almost 11lbs. I'm going to talk to the daycare about coming in to nurse if pumping doesn't work for us. I would need him to start going every three hours rather than every two or I'll be spending my entire workday nursing. I can spend all day pumping since I'd be hunched over a computer.
GTKY: what's your favorite thing about your home? Your least favorite thing? (The actual space you live in - not the city/town/etc.) The location. It's a very walkable neighborhood with shops, public transportation, and a large park nearby. Great view of the park too.
I hate the size. It's really small and overfurnished. The landlord won't remove the excess furniture (furnished apartment) so LO sleeps in our room. It's only until December.
mands1125 good luck going back to work! junebugjam & toadandbuggie sorry the bottle is still giving y'all trouble. Toadandbuggie - I think your schedule will work if necessary, but I would be worried about interrupting both your work day and LO's daycare routine. Especially as he gets older if he sees mama that often he may want you all day. I don't have any words of wisdom but I guess just keep trying the bottle and hopefully even if he won't take it from you, he'll take it at daycare.
This is true. I'm not worried about productivity because I work in the field so me stopping there would be on my way out to do inspections & on the way in. It's a pretty flexible schedule as well. But him seeing me frequently might get him confused and want to see me more, like you said.
Right now, I am regretting this entire decision with all the unknown looming before me. -_-
toadandbuggie your schedule seems like it would work to me, but like already mentioned I would worry about being productive during the day. But you gotta do what you gotta do and its nice you have that option if needed!
Yes, it's nice that it's there if I need to use it. I'm not worried about productivity since I work in the field and I would utilize the breaks I get to stop and see him. I'm just hoping I will have to avoid it. But I registered him for a week before I even start work, so I will get to see how he is - maybe they can help with the bottle.
cougarette I have trouble knowing when he's done also. Lately I try to just keep offering until he flat out refuses or just holds it in his mouth but isn't drinking.
He does the same thing with latching and pulling off over and over when he's still hungry. No clue why!
toadandbuggie that's interesting about the 3 month thing. Mine is 11 weeks so we're getting close, although he's never been great about a bottle. He seems to fight it more lately.
I just asked who gave him the bottle because I haven't tried much since I read they know and are less likely to take from mom but my H thinks I'm crazy. I just cave too fast when he fights the bottle and I know he'll eat if I just breastfeed him.
My mom wants to take him for a whole day and hope that he'll get hungry enough to drink from the bottle but I'm not convinced that's the best idea. I'd probably run it by the doc before I agreed to that.
I used to cave too fast too. Recently I've been feeding him on the one side and then doing the bottle with fresh pumped milk from the other side so he's not starving. for some reason he takes the bottle better for me than for H. With H, he screams and cries; with me, he chews on it but doesn't suck. I've had a little success with slipping in the bottle as he's still nursing so he doesn't realize at first what he's sucking on has changed. But then he realizes and starts whining. So I start the whole process again. I got him sucking on the bottle though for a little bit the one time. Practice, practice practice... sigh
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