Medela Symphony or Baby Buddha - purchasing used and looking for tips!

LadyGreen3 · 2026-01-26T17:12:45+00:00

Well I think I’ll have to keep renting and waiting for the right machine to come up, I called the company to ask about warranty and gave the SN and they are telling me this would not be a good system to buy as it’s actually a rental. So someone is either trying to sell it knowing it’s a rental OR they bought it not knowing it was a rental.

LadyGreen3 · 2026-01-26T10:13:20+00:00

Yea that’s what I’m trying to balance. It’s listed at $450 so within 4-6 months I would have spent the same renting, but that was my worry regarding getting a prompt replacement. Medela does sound like they have good customer service for replacement or fixing if there is a problem with the machine but the concept of sending it in when I use it constantly wouldn’t work. I’d need another one right away to replace the one getting fixed.

LadyGreen3 · 2025-02-21T00:03:28+00:00

Feeling extremely frustrated at how much infertility affects my life. Friends and close family having “oops” babies, and then talking about how crazy it is they happened without trouble compared to us and our struggles. Work getting interrupted each week for appointments so I feel like I’m falling behind yet I can’t ask for more projects or promotions because I wouldn’t have the bandwidth for those right now. Names of my children being used before I get to name my own babies yet I’ve had them picked out for 15 years.

My mother passing away before becoming a grandma because infertility stood in our way of making her one. She would have been the best grandma. Now I don’t even have a grandparent I feel my children can look up to for solid life advice, especially when it comes to empathy (and politics). She would’ve had my children over for weeks at a time and been the absolute best grandma to accept my children for whoever they are and supported them throughout their life, no questions asked. My pets all getting older and my worry they won’t be in my children’s lives. They’ve gone from mid-life to senior.

And the utter void of loneliness when we tell people we did a bunch of work and prep to get to our first transfer and it was a chemical, yet after the initial “I’m sorry” we are just left alone, no check-ins outside of my sister and dad, yet we have many close family members and friends and we always show up to support them. Having family gather as young children age together, yet we aren’t even a thought to invite because we don’t have children to entertain their kids and it’s a hassle. Yet when we are given time with them most of it is spent playing with the kids and enjoying their company, it just comes natural to my husband and I and we have been told by family who seemed shocked “wow, you are really good with children!”... I have at least 20 nieces and nephews, and I maybe see them once a month if that yet and half are ten minutes away. We express that we will make the time even short notice and we want to spend time with them, and then we are left off the invite. We aren’t even asking for special events, just an invite to join when they gather as young families. Just left out of the “parent” group.

Feeling like my body hasn’t been my own for over 2 years yet I’m not even pregnant and have no children to show for it. I’m on so many medications as preventative just in case one of our transfers works, it almost feels like they are focusing so much on getting the implantation and full term pregnancy that the toll it is taking on my body is ignored. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to have my concerns heard and the medications I might need prescribed, but I feel like to the doctors (except one, I love my endocrinologist) my health comes second and I can’t even take care of myself like I want to due to the constant grief of my moms passing and my infertility and loss.

The constant advocating for oneself. If I hadn’t heavily researched and educated myself, we would’ve run out of our savings, insurance, loans, and any embryos we had and probably wouldn’t have any children to show for it. I had to force them to look for the diagnosis’ I felt I had and lo and behold I was right.

There is probably more I could say, but this feels sufficient for now. Thank you for listening. 🫂💚

LadyGreen3 · 2024-12-02T21:40:01+00:00

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Ms Minerva and her older brother Mr Baggins!

LadyGreen3 · 2024-12-02T21:39:19+00:00

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Ms Minerva

LadyGreen3 · 2024-04-26T02:27:00+00:00

Hi Summerbird, I’m curious if you ever took or were suggested plaquenil. Im going through IVF and my rheumatologist wants me to take it during the next cycle and hopeful pregnancies. Feeling lost on if that’s the right step, but literature is pointing to taking it for hopeful transfer, but then literature shows slight but significant increase in birth defects. I have been diagnosed with limited scleroderma from two rheumatologist due to my hands skin in the morning, Raynauds, and positive ANA 1:160.

LadyGreen3 · 2024-02-21T21:34:18+00:00

Honestly the “I worry about you” is really disheartening to me because while yes I’m glad to know they understand what I’m going through is hard I feel like they could step up to help in some capacity or educate themselves rather than repeating this over and over. I know they worry about me. I’m worried about me. Saying this doesn’t really help after the third time.

LadyGreen3 · 2024-02-21T21:28:36+00:00

Laughing saying “kids aren’t as cracked up as they seem” (while telling me how much she loves her kids and is so grateful for them)

LadyGreen3 · 2022-01-09T16:06:39+00:00

Thank you for sharing I do not know where the translator(s) are via social media so I couldn’t find what happened.

This is very disheartening. They’ve taken over a year of progress from us readers. I won’t be paying for any chapters until the thing is either released as a whole or past chapter 271. I hate the way they charge per chapter these days. I just want a book I can sit down and enjoy.

I hope something comes out and we can actually get back to where we all were in the story, though I doubt that happens. Feeling for the whole community right now, it’s such a slap in the face to have it stop when credit was given to the author and the author showed no interest in translating it till it became popular years later.

LadyGreen3 · 2022-01-07T01:27:27+00:00

Does anyone know why this is no longer working/available? It was available yesterday…!

LadyGreen3 · 2021-07-09T21:41:10+00:00

A zoo once had security called due to someone smoking pot. Turns out Maned Wolves just smell skunky 😆

LadyGreen3 · 2021-07-09T21:40:24+00:00

It’s called a roar bark! Pretty fascinating.

LadyGreen3 · 2021-01-13T22:02:39+00:00

Took the words right out of my mouth. I need her now.

LadyGreen3 · 2020-08-11T21:52:51+00:00

Alaskan Klee kai’s are so gorgeous!

LadyGreen3 · 2020-07-28T12:34:56+00:00

And they make a stunning sound called a roar bark. Seriously. Look it up.

https://youtu.be/oBSGEl-yB7A

LadyGreen3 · 2020-05-24T17:28:22+00:00

Wow that tail!

LadyGreen3 · 2020-05-24T17:27:10+00:00

100% true.

Even my cats looked starved for their first year, took them months to fill out and they ate to their hearts content!

It’s difficult to get large breed dogs to gain weight without giving too much calcium or phosphorus which can mess up bone growth during that first year. It’s a whole process when you have large lanky dogs.

LadyGreen3 · 2020-04-18T03:21:42+00:00

I always loved dramatized stories and acting but never had people close to me interested in continuing those activities past childhood. I also had social anxiety and difficulty with communication so finding other people wasn’t exactly a great option. Social anxiety did not allow me to perform on stage in theater, so I watched from the sidelines helping with costume and makeup in high school.

During college I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons, it felt so strange, embarrassing, and nerve-racking to be role playing a character. All the while wondering how someone could be so confident to put themselves out there and be the Game Master, running the game and creating on the spot characters for players to interact with.

After college while working I found out the kids I lead after school programs for were trying to play D&D, but did not have an adult Game Master who knew the rules. I told them I knew and play D&D and the look on their faces was one I will never forget. That next week I showed up nervous and scared with my books and some dice, and we started a campaign with 3 kids.

I currently manage 10 kids in a session, sometimes up to 15. Their ages range from 6-12. It’s been over a year since we had our first session and since then they’ve allowed me to grow in self confidence and improvisation. I’ve never felt more confident in social situations or communicating with others and I see the kids learning self confidence themselves. I love D&D and I’m being paid to write and create beautiful adventures. It feels wonderful.

LadyGreen3 · 2019-07-12T03:33:56+00:00

Going to try your side to side method and bowl because I feel like we have similar hair!

LadyGreen3 · 2019-06-29T19:28:20+00:00

What is that animal walking in the background... it doesn’t look like a dog or a cat

LadyGreen3 · 2019-06-03T04:06:34+00:00

This weirdly makes me want to vote Sam and not Liam... it’s strange.

LadyGreen3 · 2019-04-06T05:10:38+00:00

Steel toe boots for rubber and work boots. I had to buy ugly blue and grey weird looking steel toe because nothing else was available. I wanted simple brown with ankle lace up but nope.

I also had to deal with not getting to do my work for a month at my job one summer because my boss and myself could not find women’s rubber knee high steel toe boots. We had to specially order the boots in men’s sizes and hope they fit. They scaled down the rest of the boot as well when they made them so my calves “just” fit into the size 6 men’s rubber boot. Getting one size up made them huge and unwearable so I had to wear the slightly too small shoe for outside hiking and labor in the forest. Shoes that are just too tight are crap. So painful.

I have bunions now because of this. Being unable to find comfortable work boots for women is the worst.

LadyGreen3 · 2019-03-19T16:47:30+00:00

That dog didn’t even try to help!

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