FFFC

[FlutterOfYoshis]

I don't know how many lactation cookies I should be having to up my supply, so I'm having 2 "doses" (2 cookies per dose) per day. Hey, if my baby needs me to eat cookies, I'm gunna go for it!

[FlutterOfYoshis]

Aug 28, 2015 10:26:11 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

I've been using baby wipes for myself.

My brother and his college roommate used them religiously. They claimed it was their more socially acceptable US equivalent to a bidet.

[cougarette]

One of DH's colleagues is trying to get DH to take a job at their Raleigh branch. Part of me kind of wants him to take it because that would mean moving away from MIL.

[MapleMomma]

I may get especially stabby when strangers touch my baby. Last weekend I told a 12 year old with fake nails to take her hands off my baby.

5 minutes later some drunk woman announced that "it was ok, she's a preschool teacher " and started petting J. I was so dumb founded that I just backed away.

I will not random people touch her. My unvaccinated siblings piss me off as it is. And now my baby is sick and we are on our way to the doctor.

Sorry that was more like a vent.

[seamonster]

Aug 28, 2015 10:32:50 GMT -5 FlutterOfYoshis said:

I don't know how many lactation cookies I should be having to up my supply, so I'm having 2 "doses" (2 cookies per dose) per day. Hey, if my baby needs me to eat cookies, I'm gunna go for it!

A dose isn't 6 a day?

I got really lazy about making individual cookies because I only have one cookie sheet and just made bar cookies. Polished them off in a week. My supply went up a bit, but really this is why I'm fat.

[osumegs]

I'm impressed with the restraint on the lactation cookies. I was polishing off a couple in like 2 days time. And by a couple I mean couple dozen.

[WittyLittle]

Ah man i had a good one before... and i completely forgot! Damn slways needing to confess stuff on Tuesdays! !!

[seamonster]

I flipped off an old lady in the parking lot at the doctor's office. Front lot was full other than a parallel spot and I'm bad at parallel parking. Back lot is full. She sees me try to go into the back lot and immediately back out. I see her waiting to leave and she starts to go and then stops and sits there. I'm motioning her to go so I can take her parallel spot but just glide in. Finally I give up and struggle into the other spot and flip her off as I go into the building.

[FlutterOfYoshis]

seamonster osumegs I didn't like how it took my entire precious baby-free block of time at night to make the cookies, so I felt 4 per day was being generous. (Definitely need to look into bars next time.) Plus I'm also taking the honest co lactation pills.

...Sometimes it almost feels silly to work so hard to get my supply back up when in about another 6 months we'll start to work on weaning.

[dreemkin]

This is a little petty and possibly a UO but I don't like when people refer to me as mom if they are not my kids. The EI coordinators and therapists would always refer to me as 'mom' in reports or to my face. I'm Norah's mom or firstname lastname. Or like store clerks or whatever that want to give a sticker/candy to DD will say, "mom, is it okay?" I'M NOT YO MOM.

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Aug 29, 2015 2:37:26 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

This is a little petty and possibly a UO but I don't like when people refer to me as mom if they are not my kids. The EI coordinators and therapists would always refer to me as 'mom' in reports or to my face. I'm Norah's mom or firstname lastname. Or like store clerks or whatever that want to give a sticker/candy to DD will say, "mom, is it okay?" I'M NOT YO MOM.

This, so much. I wanted to put something about it in my birth plan, it bothers me so much. I decided that was probably a bit extreme though.

[amy2383]

dreemkin oh no..... I think I do this ALL the time! I work in an urgent care and I always walk in say hello to the patient (child), introduce myself and say "are you mom" and then say hello to parent. Would that offend you?

[dreemkin]

Aug 29, 2015 3:54:04 GMT -5 amy2383 said:

dreemkin oh no..... I think I do this ALL the time! I work in an urgent care and I always walk in say hello to the patient (child), introduce myself and say "are you mom" and then say hello to parent. Would that offend you?

I wouldn't say offend, but it would irk me.

[amy2383]

Aug 29, 2015 7:37:59 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Aug 29, 2015 3:54:04 GMT -5 amy2383 said:

dreemkin oh no..... I think I do this ALL the time! I work in an urgent care and I always walk in say hello to the patient (child), introduce myself and say "are you mom" and then say hello to parent. Would that offend you?

I wouldn't say offend, but it would irk me.

Hmm, I will need to figure something else out to say. I can't assume that parents and children always have the same last name....

[GeekBeagle]

Aug 29, 2015 7:53:38 GMT -5 amy2383 said:

Aug 29, 2015 7:37:59 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

I wouldn't say offend, but it would irk me.

Hmm, I will need to figure something else out to say. I can't assume that parents and children always have the same last name....

I think if you would just say "Are you (child)'s mom?" You would be fine.

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Aug 29, 2015 9:13:01 GMT -5 GeekBeagle said:

Aug 29, 2015 7:53:38 GMT -5 amy2383 said:

Hmm, I will need to figure something else out to say. I can't assume that parents and children always have the same last name....

I think if you would just say "Are you (child)'s mom?" You would be fine.

Yeah, "are you (child's) mom" isn't irksome, just gathering information. And then I'd ask them their name if I don't know it and address them by their name after that.

This may not be the issue for anyone else but the most annoying for me it is calling me mom or mommy when my name, or simply "you" would suffice. I'm too tired at the moment to talk good, but basically it can feel like my identity has been reduced to my utility to others. I'm not a whole person with my own thoughts and feelings and needs. Since motherhood sometimes feels like that anyway, I think it is nice to address mothers (all parents) in a way that acknowledges their individual self, especially since it as easy as using their name.

[osumegs]

Medical people addressing me as mom doesnt bother me so much because I remember being on rounds at the peds hospital and seeing them address the parents as mom or dad instead of by name.

I did tell my husband that if he ever addressed me as "mother" that he'd be in a world of hurt. My grandpa did that all the time. Ugh