nerdalert I used to wash my hair everyday too and feel so gross if I skipped a day. Since LO and reading stuff here I've backed off to trying it just 2-3 times a week. It's already helped with my dandruff and it feels better. It's crazy. Who knew? pixie523 I love the "I'm a chocoholic but for booze." Confession: also along the boobie topic. I'm terrified to see what they look like when I finish breastfeeding. Mine had already had a little abuse from gaining/losing weight and now this... Ugh. Is it 5 o'clock yet?! I want a mojito. Like now.
Post by wildflower810 on Jun 12, 2015 13:57:25 GMT -5
MsNicole06, I wish! The idea is that M will play with those Legos... like he won't get his own?
nerdalert, right there with you! On all accounts. I've tasted wine twice and it tasted like moldy grapes so I have no desire to try it again. Sometimes I wish I knew how/what to drink, but most of the time I'm okay with binging on chocolate.
I wash my hair every other day.
Oh... and my boobs just made me sad. We got nursing all screwed up when M was just a few days old and long story short, I'm like a D on one side and an A on the other because he only nurses on one side. I'm hoping it will even out with future children, but I struggle with how I know I look.
My boobies are definitely not the same. My lactation consultant thought maybe the fact that they never really grew from pregnancy/breastfeeding that that had something to do with my low suplply. But anyway, they were perkiest of perky and now are not. Not at all. I think I'm also down a cup size. Boo
Hair washing: natural oils from the scalp are very good for your hair. Brushing helps to redistribute. The less often you wash/strip the natural oils from your scalp and hair the better regulated your scalp will be. Vicious cycle: washing every day because your hair gets greasey but it's greasey because your stripping the oils and your scalp overproduced because it's dry and so on and so forth. It's not an instant thing going from daily washing to weekly. Dry shampoo helps to get the stretch out. If you put your hair in a pony and sweat to work out. You have to take it down and brush pretty quickly so your scalp can breathe.
My hair is usually air dried day one, dry shampoo for day two, brushed out and teased a bit for day three. Day four-6 are various up styles. Wash and repeat
Post by MsNicole06 on Jun 12, 2015 14:06:16 GMT -5
DH's father's day gift is gun related. He will be so excited by it and DD isn't old enough to want to make him something so it seems like I win. I offered to get an "exercise" pole for our bedroom and he declined the offer. I can't decide if I should be offended that he doesn't want to watch me workout.
lovebuggies12 I love that you breastfed him in the car seat...I am taking notes for our upcoming 3 hour car ride! I also have the Nexplanon but at this point it would be a miracle if I got pregnant because that requires DTD ;-)
wildflower810 I need to do this to my H he is seriously a hoarder.
I have to wash my hair daily or at the very least every other day or it gets greasy feeling:-(
wicked22 congratulations and I'm glad your mom was supportive. My birthday is July 8th too:-)
nerdalert I have drank alcohol but only very occasionally and have never been drunk. I just don't like the taste that much. I'm 28 so I don't see this changing much going forward. I wish I liked wine!
We have a super busy weekend planned and my work week is jam packed next week. Vacation can't come soon enough!
Confession... I want to secretly start throwing away some of H's stuff. It's clogging up the baby's room. Do we really need your entire childhood Lego collection?
Confession: SS had a pretty overly obsessive Lego collection when we moved in together that grew even more over 4 years of living together. When we moved right after LO was born it mysteriously decreased by half, went in a tub and is presently buried under other boxes in my basement. Evil stepmom. In my defense most of them were chewed on and gross, they always ended up behind heaters and his bed etc etc....I tried to have him keep them organized and nice for years before I got fed up and I'm not risking LO choking on a Lego because he's too lazy to pick them up.
Flame me: my boobs look the same as they did pre-baby; but we'll see what happens when I lose the baby weight
Flame me harder but don't hate me: same boobs and gained NO weight during pregnancy. I lost 34 lbs byt he time I left the hospital. I've gained 20 back though.
My boobies are definitely not the same. My lactation consultant thought maybe the fact that they never really grew from pregnancy/breastfeeding that that had something to do with my low suplply. But anyway, they were perkiest of perky and now are not. Not at all. I think I'm also down a cup size. Boo
I'm a member of the itty-bitty-barely-an A club. Not much growth during pregnancy and low supply issues. They never really got full during breastfeeding either. Now they just really annoy me because the headlights are on 24/7 and get all smooshed by the bra.
Post by littleapplemom on Jun 12, 2015 14:54:47 GMT -5
songbirdsinging55, Hope everything is ok. We have some wacky stuff like that with SS's mother and husband so I feel your pain.
lovebuggies12,Yay you're here!! Haven't seen you in a while! Good thinking on the car acrobatics. I'm sure it was legal.
Wash my hair about every other day. LO hates his Sophie, it's the last thing he'll pick up. Haven't taken pics of poo but make DH come look when it's an impressive one. I like mojitos, and beer, and margarits. I see some in my future.
My boobies are definitely not the same. My lactation consultant thought maybe the fact that they never really grew from pregnancy/breastfeeding that that had something to do with my low suplply. But anyway, they were perkiest of perky and now are not. Not at all. I think I'm also down a cup size. Boo
My LC thinks the same for our issues! I missed some hormone or some shit. It helps I don't have a whole lot of boobie, ya know?
songbirdsinging55 I'm cracking up about the poop art, but sorry about your emotional day. jjh1119 I can't brush my curly hair to distribute:( I would look like Roseanne Roseannadanna. But I could do updos more!
+1 for the smooshed headlights! Pumping did worse for the nips than breastfeeding I think.
Hmmmmm that's interesting that we three with supply issues didn't have much boobiegrowth and our LCs came to that conclusion. Hopefully next time around we get the boobie growth spurt
Post by spiraltheory on Jun 12, 2015 16:08:02 GMT -5
Re: no boob growth and low supply - OMG! I wonder if this is what happened with me? I lost a cup size by the end of my pregnancy, and I had almost no milk. I was so sad about it. I did weighed feedings, and even the LC suggested switching to formula. We never talked about losing weight in my boobs though. Hmmmm. This explains a lot. That actually leads to a (not surprising) confession. I swore I wasn't going to feel bad if bf didn't work out, but I felt terrible. I cried and cried. I thought I was over it, but last weekend I was around a mom whose baby is almost a year. She was breastfeeding her and all those old feelings came back. --- I hope I can prepare myself better this time around if I have a non-existent supply again. In my sane moments, I appreciate bottle feeding, but then some weird guilt/shame kicks in again.
spiraltheory my lc seems to think I'd have better luck with subsequent babies. Maybe that'll be the case for you! She also encouraged me to try formula (and all the tinctures herbs and voodoo I could)
Re: no boob growth and low supply - OMG! I wonder if this is what happened with me? I lost a cup size by the end of my pregnancy, and I had almost no milk. I was so sad about it. I did weighed feelings, and even the LC suggested switching to formula. We never talked about losing weight in my boobs though. Hmmmm. This explains a lot. That actually leads to a (not surprising) confession. I swore I wasn't going to feel bad if bf didn't work out, but I felt terrible. I cried and cried. I thought I was over it, but last weekend I was around a mom whose baby is almost a year. She was breastfeeding her and all those old feelings came back. --- I hope I can prepare myself better this time around if I have a non-existent supply again. In my sane moments, I appreciate bottle feeding, but then some weird guilt/shame kicks in again.
+1 for feeling terrible and crying over breastfeeding. I can only comfort nurse, basically I'm a human pacifier. Which is hard to ween from. Next time I'm going to drink all the mother's milk tea, all the herbs, and not give up if latching & unlatching happens. Oh and hide the formula!
songbirdsinging55, Hope everything is ok. We have some wacky stuff like that with SS's mother and husband so I feel your pain.
lovebuggies12,Yay you're here!! Haven't seen you in a while! Good thinking on the car acrobatics. I'm sure it was legal.
Wash my hair about every other day. LO hates his Sophie, it's the last thing he'll pick up. Haven't taken pics of poo but make DH come look when it's an impressive one. I like mojitos, and beer, and margarits. I see some in my future.
I lurk a lot lol... I was so down in the dumps I didn't want to rub off on anyone else. But I missed writing you guys!
spiraltheory not being able to breastfeed was sooo hard to get over. It doesn't mean I won't try with subsequent babies. But I feel confident knowing I tried everything I could to make it work. Baby is healthy and fed and that's all that matters. I hope it works out for this next LO. And if it doesn't again, that's okay too
+1 to smooshed headlights! I've just started really noticing this. I feel like the opposite should happen to them. We could get one good change after everything our bodies did haha.
My lo is in his crib he has already woken up three times since 8:00...next time he wakes Im probably throwing in the towel for the night and reverting to snuggling/nursing because 1. Im tired and 2. I miss the snuggles. I am pretty convinced I would just like to co-sleep just need to convince my H!
Confession: I have an addiction to parenting and child development books...like I just bought two more on amazon...dang one-click buy button gets me everytime
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