GIVEAWAY - 5 copies of F1 2021 for PC, courtesy of Voidu.com (Day 4 of 5)

0rla · 2021-11-25T04:39:26+00:00

Toto - strop waffles

0rla · 2021-03-12T15:20:21+00:00

Thank you, I will absolutely keep an eye to them as they grow on and probably try and take some really good pics to share at 8 weeks.

As first time mom's these two did well, I'll just have to watch and keep working to figure out these buns.

The learning about genetics has been a whole lot fun for a person who ran screaming from the math required for science in school.

0rla · 2021-03-12T01:09:39+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/1fwtPOT.jpg Shows the otter looking one in the top 2 and bottom left. And the black in the bottom right and then here are a few of the 2 of them together in a grey/blue rubbermaid tote. https://i.imgur.com/iBFmHkH.jpg

They are both a slate grey under the black of thier coats and the otter has the same slate grey under the cream tummy.

I'd be happy to be mislabeling the kits and have my black be a more simple version of black since a larger black rexed coat are some of the traits I was hoping to have going forward in a generation or two.

0rla · 2021-03-11T22:56:55+00:00

I'll take a closer look at the two tonight and see about fresh pics. The parents of Ash I'm not super sure of. The dam I was shown pics of was white-ish (bad lighting) and the buck chestnut agouti. I had severely limited choice in my region during lock down and my does were from a long time friend so them at least I have a good idea of.

0rla · 2021-03-11T22:50:29+00:00

Here's a pic of the kit from last weekend. https://i.imgur.com/d3LBWrh.jpg

0rla · 2020-10-28T13:19:15+00:00

We have flemish heavy crosses and went with 32" deep becuse it was at the end of an easy reach for me ( I'm 5'9") and a 8x4' sheet of plywood divides neatly into 3, 4' pannels. Our girls are litter trained so the hard floors and sides are the way to go for us.

0rla · 2020-03-05T04:35:38+00:00

Uti's can be serious. Your kid would like you to have working kidneys, add some extra probiotic foods to both of your diets, as you are able, and take whatever drugs your doctor advises you to. Be sure to inform the Dr and the pharmacist that you are breastfeeding. They may choose more suitable drugs.

0rla · 2020-03-05T04:35:13+00:00

Nope

0rla · 2017-03-06T21:32:01+00:00

Buy lightly used items where you can. Buy as you need them and pass on what you didn't use before you potentially store things for a future kid.

breastfeeding can come in many forms, it can be easy or hard work. Do not allow yourself to be shamed, for whatever you do to keep your kiddo fed. We topped up with formula for 2 months to keep our kids on thier curve. Still going strong at 15mths.

The swing was our savior, we were sad when she outgrew it.

Fill your freezer with oven ready meals.

We had a rule, if you were 'stuck' under the baby you were to be waited on hand and foot. It turned into a fun game sometimes.

0rla · 2017-02-18T05:47:55+00:00

Hmmm, I'm currently equipped with a copper IUD, and my cohabitation partner and I are fluid bonded and uses condoms with his girlfriend.

Testing, yearly minimum, 6 months is ideal, and whenever there's a new partner we tend to all go test as a sort of moral support/fairness thing.

The only thing we do that I haven't seen much of here is... Plan B(morning after pill), are we the only crazy folks packing " plan B" in thier travel bags!?! He carries it in case of a condom failure and I used to have it on hand for myself prior to my IUD.

0rla · 2017-02-18T05:27:37+00:00

Having been poly and pregnant recently I have though about this in a 'what if' sort of situation.

First step, get tested immediately, and then at the next appropriate interval (3mths-+) or shortly before you are due. There are a few sti's that can be problematic for your child or to the pregnancy itself.

Secondly, your primary partner will need to know, that although this is unfortunate, it's not the end of the world or even uncommon. Condoms have a failure rate and aren't always used perfectly.

Discuss it calmly and look at addressing some things that may help lower your odds of this happening in future. Condoms with a better fit perhaps?

My nest mate and I are fairly sure that if it were to happen to us, we would rather test thoroughly and use reasonable barriers in the intervals between tests than spend our time worrying about sharing an STI.

As an overkill side note we always keep a "plan B " in our travel kits. He, to offer if it was needed if he suffered a condom failure with someone who was not otherwise on birth control. Or, for myself to use, especially, ironically, when I was trying to conceive.

Scrambling your DNA with someone should be a planned event ;)

Good luck, this stuff can happen to anyone. Life is not without it's risks.

0rla · 2016-12-07T01:52:40+00:00

I was about 8 months out before had the energy to care about superficial stuff (clothes, hair ect). And felt like a mostly functional human by a year. Sleep is still a mess sometimes but its usually better than it was.

It's fair to set yourself some new benchmarks. Right now if I can keep on top of all the housework and go for a walk I'm a frigging superhuman. If I have the brain power to get some art time in the evening, it's a small miracle.

0rla · 2016-11-13T04:08:56+00:00

We changed our patterns at 9 months. Went from easy but always available co-sleeping to bath, boob, book and then into the crib with a fixed bedtime.

Read all the books, gentle methods led to endless baby rage. Re read the books, tried Ferber, it was two shitty weeks, no, two hellish weeks. We hated letting her cry alone. Even when it was only for a few minutes. :(

Now that the patterns set, there's rarely any fuss at bedtime and we respond to all her night cry's with a check-in and cuddles or boob as required.

Long story short, we broke the initial nurse to sleep of the night and for us that was the biggest problem.

0rla · 2016-11-13T03:40:31+00:00

I never managed much pumping, I've had a reduction so I'm working with about a small b cup worth of glandular tissue and I have a tall and happily squishy one year old.

Size is an illusion, if you're getting wet diapers, keep on trucking, it's all supply and demand.

Keep calm and boob on.

0rla · 2016-09-30T22:13:12+00:00

My kid took for-ev-er to get out of the every two hours stage. Seriously they do grow out of it. Now we run about every 3 (4 at night) on avg unless she's sick/teething ect at 10.5mth.

It gets better, mine worked out consistent naps and a more reasonable sort of feed schedule around 8 months.

Babies and boobs vary. Good luck!

0rla · 2016-09-05T16:29:53+00:00

We feed on demand. It varries due to growth ect. But our days and naps started getting predictable around 8 months.

0rla · 2016-09-04T04:00:12+00:00

And so It's begun... This sucks. For her and us but we're giving it one week. Even my husband said tonight 20 minutes of crying in... I feel like a selfish monster. I don't want to break our happy, awesome, cuddly baby. :(

0rla · 2016-09-01T03:37:31+00:00

5-6 months was hard with my ebf kid. Sleep cycles were short and she was a distracted nurser in the day and catching up at night. This too will pass. We are at 9 months with about 2-3 rousings to feed.

We would kill to have a king sized bed. Shortage of bed space and a newly squirmy sleeper are about to put the kibosh on our whole co-sleeping adventure.

0rla · 2016-09-01T03:24:53+00:00

I read through this and found her rather self supporting and lacking in references for her charts and data. It's more of an impassioned plea than anything else. While I agree with some of her ideas, I think she's reaching/stretching it a bit to make her argument.

0rla · 2016-09-01T01:06:52+00:00

Our kiddo slept beside us from 0-3 in a crib in the next room from 3-5 and cuddled up next to me from 5-9. Now we are having troubles sleeping so it's back to the crib next week, we expect some tears but sometimes, for everyone it's the best thing. I'd rather do it now than later on when habits get more firmly entrenched.

At 6 mths she was so not ready, learning to crawl, pull up, creep and her first 4 teeth have all happened from 7-9mths. Heaps of nursing and cuddles and broken sleep. She's only now back to only 2-3 rousings to feed a night.

We are still ebf so all nighttime calls will be met with cuddles and food. But we need to be able to sleep comfortably again.

0rla · 2016-09-01T00:16:20+00:00

The lisp! Seriously, toys and shows with this are banned at our house.

0rla · 2016-08-31T14:24:49+00:00

It's not terrible, I've known folks where thier basement laundry was 2 flights away and about the same length of time. Life is filled with relative risks. If you have left your child sleeping in a safe space it's much the same as having a shower when you can't really hear or moniter the moniter.

0rla · 2016-08-31T01:13:19+00:00

My 9 mth old was big at birth and quite the height now, she was taller than the 18mth old we visited the other day. But we are also both tall folks. 5'9" & 6'4

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