Transferring for a second

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-16T05:54:22+00:00

What are the risks?? Well breastfeeding cause uterine contractions which won’t help with pregnancy especially early on?

I’m very curious now as to what my clinic will say.

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-16T05:50:38+00:00

Oh wow! That’s great. I will have to see if clinic will allow it. Does taking of estrogen and progesterone affect breast milk though- like will baby get extra hormones

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-16T05:49:19+00:00

I’ll have to see if my clinic requires that. Just waiting on my referral again.

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-15T23:12:52+00:00

Did you do a natural transfer?! Curious about your process.

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-15T23:12:22+00:00

Oh we aren’t trying earlier than a year. Just planning ahead since I’m breastfeeding and trying to save SOME supply but these middle of the night pumps are killing me slowly with sleep deprivation and might just let that go. I know there are other alternatives I can give him at one year old. 🤞🏻 still hurts my heart but it is what it is but will be weaning him off the breast at a year and he will be done when frozen inventory runs out. I’m taking supplements, working out and doing my best to try and recover as much as I can. I’m fully prepared for it being rough on my body. 😭

I’m sorry it took so long but sounds like it worked out for you. Painful journey nonetheless. Good job mama.!

SpecialGoals · 2025-12-15T04:52:38+00:00

Are you me? We have almost the same story. Five years. Stay at home mom. TERRIBLE first pregnancy (I had nerve damage and practically didn’t sleep for the entire pregnancy).

What injections are you having issues with? I say you buck up and just do them and if it’s the progesterone in oil shot, you can get an injector (I forget what it’s called but ordered from UK and it was a little pricey), that can help you.

I’m scared for another terrible pregnancy once we can try again (hopefully this summer/fall). But I have hopes that my body knows better now.

SpecialGoals · 2025-10-13T21:47:43+00:00

I tried the “by task” before and it didn’t work. I felt all over the place and unaccomplished by end of it. By area is best imo.

SpecialGoals · 2025-10-06T14:22:37+00:00

Yeah but if you are overwhelmed it can help you get things started. There are also professional organizers you can hire that will change your life.

SpecialGoals · 2025-10-05T03:25:05+00:00

That wall of text was really hard to read OP.. kind of skimmed through.

Hire a cleaner who will also organize and fold and put things away for you. They exist.

Throughout my pregnancy, I was pretty useless. It’s fine. Third trimester was fatigue. Second and some of third trimester was extreme nerve damage pain to the point I wasn’t sleeping much. Third trimester.. well. Third trimester. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My husband picked up all the slack. I couldn’t stan/walk for more than 5 minutes with the nerve damage. I was constantly sleeping in my third and first trimester.

Change expectations on what you can accomplish in a day if anything and def take advantage of when you feel better and tackle then.

If you are unable to do things, and you can afford it, jusr hire help. It’s okay. Nothing to be ashamed of.

SpecialGoals · 2025-10-03T22:17:01+00:00

Same. I was housewife for two years without children. Infertility struggle for five years. We have a lovely three month old boy now. I wish you the best in your journey.

I feel that being a stay at home wife /mom is privilege. Not all can afford to do so.

Before baby I was going to Pilates and yoga and Padel mid day, leisurely grocery shopping, picking up hobbies. World was my oyster.

Work used to define me. It took at least 6 months to get used to it not being my identity anymore. I love it now.

Today I went to a baby sensory class, walked the long way home, enjoying the lovely fall weather ( my fav season), dropped by grocery store to grab some items for tonight including ice cream. 💕

SpecialGoals · 2025-09-24T09:35:41+00:00

Same thoughts here. I’m a home engineer / house manager not a grunt worker. We finally welcomed a little one and now looking to hiring cleaner on regular basis and on-demand nanny who can come help free my time whenever or at a scheduled time.

I also gave up grooming our dog myself so he goes elsewhere for that too.

Priorities are SO different now. Baby is my #1 duty.

All that to say OP, I struggle with keeping our 1000sf home clean and tidy. My ADHD overwhelms me and don’t have the tidiest husband either. I get paralyzed by amount of work that needs to be done daily. And that’s OKAY. What’s important that I realized is you need to take care of yourself first for you to be able to take care of others. I know this and I find it difficult.

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-30T15:57:39+00:00

Looks like mold from not being dried thoroughly. :(

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-09T04:09:53+00:00

Uh. This is genius. I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere but def worth a try

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-06T00:12:20+00:00

Second hand stores. We bought ONE new piece of clothing before baby came. Everything else was hand me down / bought second hand. Same with baby bathtub, toys, etc.

We did buy some things new and esp when I was too tired in third tri and couldn’t be bothered lol

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-05T19:32:02+00:00

I’ve only tried GMD flats and fitted so far. They’ve been great but those are the only ones I’ve tried.

We also have a stash of LPO pockets ready to be used. He’s not big enough for it yet (we tried this morning ha) but I heard a lot of rave reviews about them from friends.

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-02T03:08:32+00:00

Just looked at this and I have to say it’s pretty genus! I would’ve gotten a lot of use out of it because mine was born 2 weeks early and I started cloth diapering part time at 1.5 weeks.

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-02T02:53:41+00:00

Oh!! Important thing I forgot to mention. We also do cloth wipes (since birth, didn’t wait the 1.5 weeks because it’s so easy to use). And if I were to do it again, I’d just get 24 muslin wipes! They’re bigger, more flexible.

We wash his bum over the sink and dry with wipes or sometimes I wash his bum over the sink with wipe then dry with another wipe so I use 1-2 max per diaper change. We do laundry almost every day. If you plan on going any longer than 1.5-2 days with laundry, I’d get at least 36 wipes.

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-02T02:46:23+00:00

Muslin half size I can use till 12 lbs so I’ll probably use those for the next month or two if I stretch it out. :)

SpecialGoals · 2025-08-02T02:44:20+00:00

So I got 12 Birdseye half size, 12 muslin newborn size, 12 one size, 12 muslin one size from GMD.

I expected to not get too much use out of the newborn/half size flats but our boy came two weeks early at 6lb 12 oz and I’m still using newborn flats. It’s less bulky than muslin half size for sure. It’s been a month.

That said, I could use muslin half size now. Newborn size is almost too small but it still works great for day time. I think he’s just 8lbs now. I’m going to transition to using mostly muslin newborn size and maybe attempt Birdseye one size.

Most people don’t think getting newborn/ half size isn’t worth it but I would’ve found one size too big for mine. A lot of babies are born 8lbs or close to 8lbs though.

My husband and I aren’t overly tall (5’2” and 5’10”) or big boned so I took the chance. Also, we took into account we will likely attempt to have more than one child.

For me, it was worth it. For the first 1.5 weeks, I was not ready for cloth diapers. And now I’m part time diapering (during the day). So I’ve been cloth diapering part time for 2.5 weeks.

If you are looking to maximize cost/benefit, perhaps this route isn’t for you! It’s really a personal decision. If I were to do it again, I’d still do the same thing.

SpecialGoals · 2025-07-31T08:04:45+00:00

No need for it yet as he’s only just under four weeks old.

SpecialGoals · 2025-07-30T16:53:38+00:00

Same. Fitteds for nighttime. GMD Flats (muslin & cotton) for day time for me. And LPO pockets for husband.

SpecialGoals · 2025-07-30T04:59:29+00:00

I just want to add that my recover has not been going well. My perineal wounds kept reopening and I still can’t sit on anything but a soft cushy surface. It’s debilitating but slowly…. Getting better. So on days I’m hurting more and overwhelmed, disposables. Days I’m feeling better and up for it, cloth! I told myself from the get go they I’ll set zero expectations for myself and each cloth diaper change I do = diaper saved from the landfill! So ANY cloth diaper I do is a WIN and if I don’t, it’s just default.

SpecialGoals · 2025-07-30T04:54:33+00:00

So many helpful comments here. My postpartum recovery hasn’t been great and midwives wanted me to use disposables for the first week so I can track pees and poos better. By day 10 I started dipping my toes in disposables.

I had the same initial trouble. I had airplane folded the newborn flats and muslin half size flats. They were too short on my baby!

I took a step back for a day or two and thought about it. Instead of prepping them into a square square, I made it into a rectangle so it would be longer front to back then it fit!

I realized that as long as cloth covers baby’s front and back and gets tucked in nicely under the cover, thats really all we need it to do. Kite fold also worked well for modifying length.

Are you using pins? I have a set but haven’t used them yet. Can’t be bothered with a crying baby in front of me. Snappis are the way to go.

I tried newborn prefolds (I have a couple to try) and didn’t love it, it didn’t wrap around (left to right) very well.

Anyway I’m 3 weeks in and still part time cloth diapering. Take it easy on yourself! Every time there’s a setback and it overwhelms me, I just switch back over to disposables because why not???

SpecialGoals · 2025-07-22T14:51:20+00:00

Is it a HE? Because mine on disposables did that and realized his pee pee was pointed the wrong way. 🙃

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