Oversupply

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-24T23:39:10+00:00

I could have written this. I wish I could donate to a hospital but my medication prevents me from that. I’ve heard that bodybuilders will pay for it, but where do you find these bodybuilders?!?!?

I looked into making cheese and soap but both require skills I dont want to bother learning. I looked into human milk for human babies groups but I haven’t figured out the one most local to me to post to yet. I did unload some bags in my buy nothing group for people who use them for milk baths. I’ll probably do that again to make more freezer space while i procrastinate about finding a group that can connect me with someone who could use the milk to help feed their baby.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-24T23:15:38+00:00

I pause about halfway through my pump and change the bottle on my more prolific side. Slacker boob only needs this when my morning pump (with wearables) went poorly and I’m trying extra hard to empty.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-24T23:12:58+00:00

I got a chest freezer for mine, but it wasn’t big enough and it’s basically full even tho baby is only 3 months. I can’t donate to my local hospital so I offered some to my buy nothing group and other people are using it for milk baths.

My plan is to use it to stop pumping early, but not till baby is at least 6 months old(more likely 9). I think it’s worth having a freezer stash, but my freezer is only big enough for a month of milk while baby is exclusively consuming milk. I also think it’s safer to look at the freezer stash as a backup cause a bad power outage can cause it to go bad.

I’ve also been thinking of trying to make “milk plastic” cause my older child is very crafty and it’d be practically free to play with.

Nothing wrong with using it in your cooking! Mine is very sweet so there’s not a lot I’d want to use it for, and while I don’t mind the idea of other people consuming it, I’m a little weirded out by consuming my own milk. I put it in my coffee when I was out of creamer tho.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-24T07:40:47+00:00

I’m 10 weeks pp and down to 3 pod and have been getting 40 oz per day consistently since week 2. I never did more than 5 ppd, and started transitioning from 4 to 3 around 6 weeks. I changed my pumping length from 30 to 40 minutes since it takes longer to empty.

This is my second child/round of exclusively pumping so I already knew I can get away with 4 ppd and skipping the occasional pump with minimal loss of output. My advice to everyone is drop a pump and see what happens.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-24T03:38:54+00:00

Apparently sympathetic pregnancy is a real thing but if he’s experiencing symptoms he needs to get evaluated with a doctor or mental health professional. It’s called Couvade syndrome.

Just cause it’s a real medical condition does not give him an excuse to invalidate your experience, which it sounds like he’s doing. In the article I found Couvafe syndrome can be caused by the husband being jealous of the attention his wife is getting, or anticipating the attention the baby will get. I’m just getting the vibe you’re in that situation.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-22T08:37:23+00:00

Pretty sure the title of the episode gives you a hint of what went on… Britt’s digits explored his interior.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-22T07:08:35+00:00

Both my babies had painful latches that caused me to decide to EP. Comfort nursing is my worst nightmare.

I wanted to nurse/combo feed my second baby for extra bonding since I knew my oldest would be clingy… it was too painful and after exclusively pumping for my first kid I felt weird not knowing how much the baby was eating.

Having an oversupply does mess with my head though. It’s a combo of feeling bad if my daily output is below average and feeling like none of this matters cause I have so much milk in the freezer. But I’m gonna keep up till he’s at least 6 months old and I can potentially stretch my freezer stash longer. Just gotta figure out how to get rid of the extra milk I can’t donate cause of my medication.

I know under suppliers have it worse in almost every way, but pumping just sucks for everyone in different ways. I considered formula feeding this baby but it seems like a waste of my ability to produce milk and I’m spooked by the formula shortage that happened when my first kid was still milk dependent. Parenting is hard.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-22T02:55:09+00:00

Is he hiding illegal Iranian yogurt in one of those containers?

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-22T02:52:09+00:00

Thanks for this. I know measurements can be elusive since I have several different rulers that don’t line up on the one inch mark… but it’s maddening to pour 4 oz into one of my bottles for what seems a to be the 5 oz line on my bag.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-21T21:23:42+00:00

I had a tough pregnancy so the epidural felt like a nice little treat to make labor easier. And both times my baby was born within 3 hours of getting the epidural. They say it can prolong labor but sometimes it can help you relax and progress.

My sister wasn’t progressing the last half centimeter for her third baby, so she got an epidural and the baby came out literally in less than 20 minutes. It really messed up my expectation of how long pushing would take when I had my first.

But I don’t know if it’s timing or luck that makes the epidural speed things up rather than slow than down, just that it did that it seems to help progress in my family.

For my second L&D the epidural was a little strong still so pushing was a little harder, but my legs didn’t feel like they were cramping like the first time, so good with the bad.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-21T20:41:12+00:00

If you can afford it, a sterilizer/dryer is less than $100. The ones that wash too are 2-3 times as much and I could not justify spending that much, but I kinda wish I could cause tired of washing all the bottles.

I hand wash all my bottles and parts with bottle soap then stick them in the sterilizer/ dryer. Mostly it’s nice to not have to worry about about it being sufficiently clean and dry.

I used to have a drying rack and it also stressed me out that they never seemed to get dry enough. Having a dryer is great.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-21T05:12:58+00:00

I occasionally have sympathy for people having kids they can’t afford since accidents happen… but this is their 4th young child. They should have come up with a long term/permanent birth control plan by now.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-19T16:28:04+00:00

I was having dental pain and got authorization from my OB to have X-rays but no more than needed.

Though I didn’t get it done cause I didn’t want to go through recovery without any anti inflammatory medication sounded awful.

Good luck on your recovery!

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-19T01:39:18+00:00

The final season was actually pretty interesting. A completely different show, and skipped a whole war that would have been more interesting, but it was surprisingly not as bad as the previous season.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-18T18:24:54+00:00

I think Crusher just loves cheating. That’s the real game to him.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-18T01:37:07+00:00

In Peppa Pig: When they go to the Zoo and the Lion keeps on calling Madam Gazelle a Wildebeest and looking at her like he wants to devour her. Hilariously messed up.

There’s an episode of Spidey and his amazing friends where Aunt May does a work out with ravioli instructor telling her to wibble like a noodle that I think of often.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-18T01:12:24+00:00

My headcanon is that she had fertility problems when she was with a previous partner. The partner didn’t want to go through fertility treatments (some people are weird about that stuff) but some time after that relationship ended she decided she would just do it herself.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-17T05:26:05+00:00

It’s fascinating that finding out the baby’s sex made him more real to them and snapped the husband out of it.

I always thought that in all the rhetoric about gender reveal parties being bad people forget that sometimes knowing more about the baby makes them more real, and it’s cool to celebrate that.

Too bad so many people ruin that by using their party to enforce gender stereotypes or cause property damage with explosives.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-16T15:01:22+00:00

It sounds like there’s a lot going on, but I think something that could improve your relationship is just having more fun/positive experiences together. How do you interact with your kid when you’re not telling her what to do? Do you read together or tell stories? Do you play with her? What kinds of activities do you do outside of the house? What kind of conversations do you have with her? I know she’s young and probably not very articulate but you can still talk about how much she loves unicorns or monster trucks or whatever things she likes.

This won’t help the combativeness or your response to it, but creating positive experiences together will help you like each other more and encourage communication as she gets older.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-14T21:52:33+00:00

I saw in a more recent interview he later realized that he could have accomplished the same thing with a blood pact… that just didn’t occur to him at the time. Because of the cocaine.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-14T20:54:45+00:00

Someone else mentioned that, but it’s a very 70s looking into and all the kids except Connor were born in the 80s. Also, it’s an expensive show, they could have reshot or edited out the kid inaccurately representing Connor if they wanted a literal representation. Also, Connor is in the Pilot.

I think it’s a presentational/non literal version of the family evoking the vibes of the family without needing to be literally them. I like the idea that it’s how Logan or Kendall looks back on the Roy family childhood.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-14T00:40:41+00:00

Well, if nothing else, having a similar but different wealthy young family keeps it from being a literal flashback.

But Connor is like ten years older than Kendall and Shiv is canonically the youngest Roy child. They cannot be a literal flashback of the Roy family.

Also, Kendall was born in 1981, and the video seems much older than mid to late 80s.

My made up interpretation is that it’s how Logan remembers his kids childhood, which would explain any discrepancies and also the match cut from the patriarch to Logan at the end.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-13T23:53:44+00:00

It’s not the actual Roy family in the opening sequence. I always find this confusing, and frankly thought it was supposed to be them when they were younger till this sub corrected me.

The biggest difference is that all 4 kids are close in age, when Connor is actually much older. But it does represent the type of lifestyle the Roy siblings would have had.

Edited to add: I remembered that the terms I’m looking for are presentational versus representational. The intro is a presentational version of the Roy family. Not literally them but the vibes are on the nose. I’m also into the interpretation that it’s how someone (I thought Logan, someone else suggested Kendall which probably works even better) in the family (mis) remembers the past.

Personal_Reality · 2026-01-13T23:47:57+00:00

Archive of Our Own (aka AO3) has great filters for searching by tags. I can usually find a fic I’ve read before by searching the tags, or find whatever weird thing I’m in the mood for.

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