1/18 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO?

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 11 months this Thursday

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen

Solids? Yep, 3x a day plus snacks

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? I have all the Disney book club books from when I was a kid that we've started reading. Harry Potter will be great, of course. He seems to like books now; I hope that doesn't go away.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 10 mo + 2 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing

Solids? - 3x a day

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? -
Picture book - Frederick by Leo Lionni
Chapter book - Narnia, especially LW&W and Dawn Treader
Movie - Oliver & Company

[lilyelayne]

danitaec DS has recently gotten super interested in lift the flap books, though of course that comes with a high destruction risk

[junebugjam]

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? LO wanted no part of formula, so we're back to nursing and pumping

Solids? He survives off of Cheerios, bananas, and quiche most days

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO?

The monster at the end of this book!

[lilyelayne]

junebugjam sorry you didn't get to stop pumping like you'd hoped
Also I loooove the monster at the end of this book!

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing

Solids? 3 meals and 1 snack. He's exerting independence and bananas and avocado are no unless mixed with yogurt

Questions/AW? None

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? So many movies like Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. 80s children's movies forever! There are a lot of books I'm excited to share as well. Too many to name.

DS loves storytime and playing with lift the flap books. Hopefully he'll always love books.

[taberbtb]

** lurking **

A question for the pumpers-A friend of mine offered me her Medela freestyle double electric pump. She only used it twice for her LO before switching to formula. Obviously, getting a $400+ pump for free is a great deal and I told her I would take it to use for this next LO. What parts should I replace on a used pump? The flanges, but anything else?

[kartish]

taberbtb My aunt gave me her pump and she replaced all of the pieces, the tubes, flanges, bottles and the bit that connects the flanges to the bottles. I would think that except for maybe the bottles, you'd want to replace everything. I clean mine daily, but there are hard to reach and clean places that I'd rather just toss and replace.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Solids? Yep

Questions/AW? I think V may be on the path to daytime weaning already. He never asks, and if I bring him to the boob he eats for a minute but then is trying to climb away. I was thinking I was losing suply and that's why, but he try to get away even during letdown.

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? Harry Poter, Narnia and Redwall series, and pretty much all the Disney movies.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 11 and a half

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BFing in morning and before bed

Solids? Yuppers

Questions/AW? Nah

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? I love the Bernstein Bear books. DD1 is really into them now so that is fun.

[mishka29]

Jan 18, 2016 17:32:23 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

** lurking **

A question for the pumpers-A friend of mine offered me her Medela freestyle double electric pump. She only used it twice for her LO before switching to formula. Obviously, getting a $400+ pump for free is a great deal and I told her I would take it to use for this next LO. What parts should I replace on a used pump? The flanges, but anything else?

I always say if it touches milk then replace. Or maybe I heard that somewhere since I don't actually have a lot of cause to say that

[lilyelayne]

taberbtb technically since the freestyle is an open system it's not meant for multiple users. Milk particles can get into the motor and other parts of the pump you can't get to to clean.
That said, if she really used it twice & you don't see any mold or anything inside the pump, well, that's up to you

If you choose to use it, I would replace all parts - tubing, valves, membranes, flanges, etc.

The other thing to consider if you start using it & it doesn't seem to be working great, most pumps are designed to work for one year. Hopefully (if you choose to use it) the motor still has a lot of life left since it was lightly used!

Further reading:
kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/buying-a-used-or-new-pump/
www.llli.org/llleaderweb/lv/lvjunjul04p54.html

[lilyelayne]

kartish DS and I have been listening to the first Redwall as an audiobook in the car

[taberbtb]

lilyelayne good to know! Thanks! I think I will take it and try it out. Even if I end up using it once to see how I like it before purchasing a new one. I wanted to buy one last time with B, but decided to wait and see if I really had a need for it. I'm glad I didn't spend the $$ since BF'ing didn't work out for us long term. I'm hoping to be more successful this time around but still don't want to put out that kind of cash ahead of time not knowing. I also don't have an insurance plan to cover it so it would be OOP.

[seamonster]

Jan 18, 2016 17:32:23 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

** lurking **

A question for the pumpers-A friend of mine offered me her Medela freestyle double electric pump. She only used it twice for her LO before switching to formula. Obviously, getting a $400+ pump for free is a great deal and I told her I would take it to use for this next LO. What parts should I replace on a used pump? The flanges, but anything else?

Buy the spare parts kit from Target. That's the cheapest place I've found them. They also sell the tubing IIRC. You can order online and pick up at the store to save the hassle of searching the aisle. Spare parts kit is the membranes and the pieces that connect the flange, pump, and bottle together. Unlike the duck bill membranes on all the other medela pumps you only need a spare part kit if something happens to your parts like damage or losing them or having a backup. You don't need to replace the membrane regularly.

I'd get new bottles. I think flanges would be fine as they're easy to clean and sterilise. But you may want to try different sizes.

[taberbtb]

seamonster thank you! I will check that out. If I get a spare parts kit plus tubing that should be everything I need? She is also giving me her (unused) pump and store bags so I will start with those instead of new bottles right away.

ETA: I re-read and hope I have it figured out now.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 11 months today!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping, pumping and nursing

Solids? 3x a day plus a snack. She loves anything made with ground beef.

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO?
So many! Madeline, everything by Roald Dahl, Winnie the Pooh, the classic Sesame Street songs.

[aggiebug]

Jan 18, 2016 11:56:37 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

danitaec DS has recently gotten super interested in lift the flap books, though of course that comes with a high destruction risk

Check out peek a who? It's adorable and DD loves it, but low risk for destruction

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? 10 months and two, almost three weeks.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? All of the above.

Solids? All the solids. Our two new ones are peanut butter and roasted red pepper hummus smeared on half a sun dried tomato wrap. He just licks the hummus off the wrap, lol.

Questions/AW? Not a question but ugh, weaning. I know I need to do this over the next month. I'm having so many mixed emotions about it. Where did a year ago?

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? Pretty much everything Disney. We're Disney fanatics and every time I share the magic of Disney with DS, I tear up a little bit. His new word is "Ickey!", which he screams every time he sees Mickey Mouse.

[kaydee0402]

Jan 19, 2016 10:48:26 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

Jan 18, 2016 11:56:37 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

danitaec DS has recently gotten super interested in lift the flap books, though of course that comes with a high destruction risk

Check out peek a who? It's adorable and DD loves it, but low risk for destruction

It's too funny you say that.  My boss actually gave me a copy of Peek-a-Who that she found while cleaning out her house this weekend

[seamonster]

Jan 19, 2016 6:46:55 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

seamonster thank you! I will check that out. If I get a spare parts kit plus tubing that should be everything I need? She is also giving me her (unused) pump and store bags so I will start with those instead of new bottles right away.

ETA: I re-read and hope I have it figured out now.

Rereading that it was only used twice. I wouldn't get new bottles. I was thinking they'd been used a while. I'd do a new kit and new tubing and sterilize everything else. Will run you about $30 total.

Depending on your comfort level with 2 uses you could just wash and sterilise the membranes and pump pieces and just buy new tubing.

[osumegs]

I've mainly been lurking lately.

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. Pumped bottle at bedtime

Solids? 3 meals a day plus 2 snacks

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO? So many! Boxcar Children, Babysitters Club, Anne of Green Gables

[michelle142]

How old is your LO?
11 months on Thursday

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing/Pumping.
I'm slowly dropping pumping sessions. I want to be done with that blasted thing by her first birthday.

Solids?
She eats all the things.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a favorite childhood book / movie / song that you're looking forward to sharing with LO?
I can not WAIT until they're old enough to appreciate The Goonies!

[lilyelayne]

michelle142

[michelle142]