Formula Fridays 8/14

[dreemkin]

I'm always amazed how quickly times flies when I'm starting another one of these threads. Have a good week mommas!

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Formula amt per bottle and day:

Solids share section:

Comment away:

NBR GTKY: since no one posted yet I'm editing this bc the last one was lame. Taking this from the thur thread: what is your funniest or craziest drinking story?

[mrsclark731]

Age: 24 weeks

Formula amt per bottle and day: 6 oz 5x daily

Solids share section: I'm still doing a puree around lunch and oatmeal with a fruit mixed in at dinner time. Lately, she has been too cranky to eat her oatmeal--I'm hoping she'll snap out of whatever regression she is in soon. I need sleep.

Comment away: We moved up to Avent nipple size 3 and she is way happier. No gas issues like I was afraid of.

NBR GTKY: since no one posted yet I'm editing this bc the last one was lame. Taking this from the thur thread: what is your funniest or craziest drinking story? I was so bad in high school. I was more of a drinker in high school than college (I had moved on and up to herbal refreshments by then). I greatly enjoy booze, I induldge at least 3 nights a week now-a-days, but I have never enjoyed the feeling of being drunk. Even in college getting drunk in a bar was not appealing. Maybe I'm not a fun drunk? Anyways....the first time I ever got wasted I was in 9th grade and it was off of warm, grape Mad Dogg at like, 5PM with a bunch of my friends at one of their houses while his parents were bowling. I threw up in the bushes outside his house and then sobered up enough to walk home and be back by 9PM. lol.

[emilyz320]

Age: 5.5 months

Formula amt per bottle and day: 6oz 5 times a day, 3-5oz top off before bed

Solids share section: none yet

Comment away: none this week!

NBR GTKY: since no one posted yet I'm editing this bc the last one was lame. Taking this from the thur thread: what is your funniest or craziest drinking story? Too many to choose from, but they are probably not funny to anyone but the people who were there (and me!). At my 10 year hs reunion last year I was hands down the drunkest person there. My BFF and I drank a bottle of wine each before we even left the house. I blacked out so I have very little memory of what I did and said, so my friends had to fill me in the next day. All I remember is hugging people I barely know and talking to a classmate in the bathroom about wearing spanx and 2 pairs of tights. Dh ditched me and sat at the bar and one of my classmates that I barely know came up to him and asked if he was my fiancé, he thought I was getting kicked out but I guess I had told this classmate all about dh's job and told him to go chat with him about it. Apparently I told my old next door neighbor that I still see his grandparents that lived on our street all the time (I don't) and he let me know that they are dead. I don't even know what else I did that night. That was the last time I was drunk and it was almost 2 years ago.

[abseptember]

Age- 6mth, 1 week

Bottles- 30ish oz, 5oz bottles during day, 6oz before bed

Solids- dinner only.... they are loving it!

Comments- can anyone who also does 5oz bottles tell me their feeding schedule. With the boys sleeping longer at night, I'm having a hard time getting the 30 oz in them.... just wondering how others are making it work.

Q- oh there's so many funny ones. One night a close friend of mine and I decided that we were just going to dinner and not out for the night. Ya that didn't happen. Around 3a, we couldn't find a cab so we called a friend to pick us up. We'd never seen his car before and when he pulled up he had a super long green car. We decided his car pretty much looked like a limo and kept yelling out the window that we were in a green limo.

[GeekBeagle]

Age: ~5 months, 2 weeks

Formula amt per bottle and day: 5-7 oz 5 x a day = 28-29 oz a day

Solids share section: None

Comment away: We're seeing the GI specialist for a check-up on Wednesday. I'm anxious to see what he says about solids.

NBR GTKY: since no one posted yet I'm editing this bc the last one was lame. Taking this from the thur thread: what is your funniest or craziest drinking story? This is a story that I don't remember happening. When we were in college, H had his bed lofted next to a window, with the air conditioner underneath. A couple of days after a night out, H and his roommate smelled something weird. Turns out I had puked all down the curtains into the air conditioner. It had to have been me because it was on the side of the bed I slept on, but I don't remember it at all.

[jensoprano82]

Age: 6 mos 3 weeks

Formula: 6oz 5x a day

Solids: all the solids! My sons GI specialist declared its time to fatten mr man up and we are now to do solids 3x a day including a protein like chicken

[jensoprano82]

Has anyone else tried mum mums crackers? They disintegrate instantly in their mouth and DS loves being able to hold one and gnaw on it

[abseptember]

Aug 15, 2015 1:37:33 GMT -5 jensoprano82 said:

Has anyone else tried mum mums crackers? They disintegrate instantly in their mouth and DS loves being able to hold one and gnaw on it

I forgot about those... buying them next time I'm out for sure!

[taberbtb]

Aug 15, 2015 1:37:33 GMT -5 jensoprano82 said:

Has anyone else tried mum mums crackers? They disintegrate instantly in their mouth and DS loves being able to hold one and gnaw on it

Yes! DD can take two of those down within minutes now that she has teeth and immediately screams for more!

abseptember our schedule usually looks like this: 1 5oz bottle around 4:30-5am, back to sleep then a 6oz "breakfast" bottle around 8-8:30am, 6oz around noon, again at 4, solids around 5:30-6, and a final bottle at bedtime 7-7:30. B doesn't always finish her bedtime bottle but I figure she must be ok without because she doesn't wake up again until 4:30-5am. This past week though she has been sleeping right through until 7am and our schedule has gone all to hell trying to make up that missed bottle.

[missys]

Age: 6 months this Tuesday!

Formula amt per bottle and day: 7oz 4/5x a day and weaning a MOTN bottle now at 4 oz

Solids share section: eats 2 oz at dinner. Loves carrots!

Comment away: those who have been to 6 month appointment, did your doctor say to start proteins or say have a fruit, veggie, and protein a day? Also have they mentioned when is a good time to start sippy cups? Just gearing up for our appointment on Wednesday

NBR GTKY: Junior year of college my roommate turned 21 one month before me. I borrowed one of our older sorority sister's ID who looked like me and went out to the bars to celebrate her birthday. I got way more drunk than she did and my boyfriend (husband now) went out with us thankfully and dealt with me. When we got home I wanted to get busy and in my mind I needed to make sure he knew he was doing a good job and was much louder than I thought I was. My roommates at least had a good sense of humor about it and weren't upset about my big mouth the next morning

[taberbtb]

Age: 6.5m (27w)

Formula amt per bottle and day: 1x5oz 4x6oz

Solids section: B hasn't met a solid she doesn't like! Usually 1-2tbsp of yogurt in the a.m. to help keep things moving and half a (small) jar at dinner.

Comment away: This week B started dropping her MOTN feed and it's so hard to make up. She will not eat more often or more oz's. We stopped all solids for 3 days to see if that would make a difference but it didn't. I suppose I just have to trust her little belly to know what she needs. She's gaining very well and I suppose if she needed it she would let me know?

NBR GTKY: My BFF was always pretty reckless and carefree when we were younger. I remember when we were out drinking one night at a cattle show and we were starving on the way back to our trailer so we found an unlocked subway booth and broke in and made ourselves subs! We also started having condiment wars which may have actually been worse for the people who came in the next morning than the 2 missing buns and cold cuts We didn't even get to eat our subs because security came along so we started running and dropped them on the way. When we got back to the trailer we were two out of breath, filthy, hungry, drunk girls!

[GeekBeagle]

abseptember I just saw your question. DS typically eats at 7:30a, 11a, 2p, 5p and 8p. But a couple of those bottles are 6 or 7oz. Maybe upping the amount of a bottle or two will help?

[taberbtb]

missys out doctor specifically mentioned to make sure DD was getting meat or some form of iron. We have started with a sippy cup but she really doesn't get it yet.

[dreemkin]

I wish I would have asked about a sippy cup but my Dr didn't say I needed any specific type of solid during the day.

[dreemkin]

Age: 6 months and some change.

Formula amt per bottle and day: 6oz bottles, 5 times a day (sometimes 4 or 6).

Solids share section: Anna loves peas. Didn't even have to mix with formula or heat up.

Comment away: no comments except that it seems like people give a big variety of solids already. I started a bit before her 6 month appointment and I'm waiting at least three days in between. It seems like we have a lot less under our belt. Not sure why that is...

NBR GTKY: my craziest story is probably when we went to Unofficial at U of I (I attended ISU) my junior year of college. It was every bit of crazy as it claims. The drinking started in the morning and lasted all day long. So much green beer and beer pong at every house/bar. I remember getting a free subway sub that night. I remember walking around a lot. I remember crashing at a friend of a friend's place and they were doing drugs. And I remember someone we were with kept falling down on ice bc it was still cold and icey. Ah so much fun.

[psychobutthead]

Age: 5 months and some odd weeks

Formula amt per bottle and day: 6 oz. 5x a day at night he snacks on two ounces through out the night unless he misses two hours straight then he will drink 4 oz. in one shot

Solids share section: Hes tried cereal, prunes, yams, carrots, applesauce, and bananas. One I run out of the jarred baby food that was given to me I have a stash in my freezer that I made.

Comment away: Doesn't seem like the babies should be this old already!

NBR GTKY: since no one posted yet I'm editing this bc the last one was lame. Taking this from the thur thread: what is your funniest or craziest drinking story?
I don't really have any funny drinking stories. Only one I can think of is we were drinking blue UV vodka and chasing it with mountain dew and I threw up blue all over this guys parents hallway. Hmm can't think of anything seriously funny.

[babycfeb2015]

I don't go here but dreemkin unofficial was the best!! I went to u of i and my lil sis is there now and I get so jealous every year when unofficial rolls around

[abseptember]

Aug 15, 2015 18:51:39 GMT -5 GeekBeagle said:

abseptember I just saw your question. DS typically eats at 7:30a, 11a, 2p, 5p and 8p. But a couple of those bottles are 6 or 7oz. Maybe upping the amount of a bottle or two will help?

I wish I could up the ozs.... they just won't go for more than 5 unless it is before bed. I guess I'll ask their pedi what to do....maybe I need to up solids.