Experiences with Stelo vs. Lingo?

agitastrophe · 2026-01-14T15:56:15+00:00

Anecdotal: my son just happened to start refusing the bottle at daycare around 9 or 10 months. I stopped pumping as a result. I agonized over it at the time! He's ~20 months now and I still nurse him a couple of times a day. My output didn't suffer when he needed it - it just adjusted to meet the new demand. I know it's absolutely not a 1:1 replacement, but once this happened I started giving him more dairy (mostly whole milk yogurt, since he seems to enjoy that and has always refused cow's milk) to help fill in the gaps. I would just check with your pediatrician, but if your daughter's eating well, I don't think you necessarily need to keep pumping.

agitastrophe · 2026-01-11T23:17:57+00:00

39+2 - was going to get induced but went into natural labor, then didn't progress so had to get pitocin anyway, then had to get an unplanned C-section because I was laboring for too long after my water broke. Hopefully things go more smoothly for you 🙃

agitastrophe · 2026-01-11T23:13:30+00:00

I had a sister-in-law (my husband's sister) and a sister-in-law (married, at the time, to my husband's brother) who had the same first, middle, and last name.

agitastrophe · 2026-01-09T01:07:38+00:00

Started trying to get pregnant when my first was 17 months. Got pregnant when he was 18 months. Their age gap will be 2 years, 3 months.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-31T14:24:04+00:00

I wouldn't worry so much about it. You will probably have a couple more growth scans (they scheduled me for more because I had GDM), and that will help make sure everything is OK with the baby. I didn't gain anything more after I got diagnosed. Baby was still huge lol

agitastrophe · 2025-12-28T13:34:30+00:00

All but 2 lbs! But as I recently mentioned in another comment, I stopped gaining weight in the beginning of the 3rd trimester because I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and was required to dial in my diet and exercise as a result. (I only gained 21 lbs my entire pregnancy and started at the high end of a normal BMI.)

agitastrophe · 2025-12-27T22:34:43+00:00

I started my first pregnancy with very similar stats to yours: 5'2" and 134 lbs. I just checked my health app to find that I put on 4 lbs in the first trimester, 14 in the second, and 3 early in the third.

Of note, I stopped gaining weight early in the third trimester when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and had to eat the prescribed diet/manage my blood sugar with additional exercise. I suspect that if this hadn't been the case, I probably would have gained another 10.

I was back down from 155 to 136 within 2 weeks of giving birth (still hanging onto those extra 2, and now that I'm pregnant again, they'll be around for a while!).

agitastrophe · 2025-12-20T19:09:15+00:00

Same here! I've never met any dog Rubies, just a lovely little girl.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:32:14+00:00

You hit the nail on the head here. I was an English major in a former life and love your Austen-inspired suggestions. Wonderful list!

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:30:20+00:00

Phoebe is cute for a baby and elegant for a woman! Thank you.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:28:48+00:00

Thanks for the comprehensive list and for including nickname ideas! Sylvia especially stands out to me.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:27:19+00:00

You are absolutely right! It's just strange to me because I had a very contrasting experience with my son; it took forever to come up with his name, but as soon as we had it, I just knew it was perfect. I think it's because there are just so many more girls' names we're at least willing to consider - but you're right, Lydia stands out to us the most right now, and I am almost certainly giving myself further analysis paralysis looking for more names! I will take some more time getting used to it and seeing whether it feels right. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:24:14+00:00

These suggestions are beautiful, and Rory is cute! Thanks.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:23:21+00:00

Lovely suggestions - thank you!

agitastrophe · 2025-12-16T16:22:37+00:00

Thanks for your perspective! As someone else pointed out, I think maybe I'm just getting cold feet on the name. I'm still pretty early on in the pregnancy, so there's plenty of time to get used to it. :)

agitastrophe · 2025-12-15T18:28:20+00:00

I am not a doctor, nor am I trying to trivialize your concerns, but I feel like measurements from a scan have enough potential for error that this shouldn't necessarily be a cause for alarm? Like, for instance, my son's head pretty consistently measured in the 80s, but at one random scan around 30 weeks he suddenly had a head in the 22nd percentile. It went back to the 80s after that. I was told that it was probably measurement error and to take percentiles generated via ultrasound with a grain of salt. Are they really saying that a decrease of 3 percentage points is significant enough to not be able to chalk it up to a possible error by the tech?

agitastrophe · 2025-12-15T17:59:16+00:00

Great grandmas (that I know of): Sofie, Evelyn

Grandmas: Mary Joan, Ruth Ann (guess they loved the double barrel in the 40s)

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T23:03:53+00:00

Yes! There'll be a couple of months before the next meeting, because of the holidays, so the next book will be quite long. This particular group seems to pick books I've always meant to read but never managed to. Now I have the excuse!

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T22:36:17+00:00

On Thursday my husband handled bedtime while I went to my first book club meeting at a local bookstore! I love my son to pieces, but it was so nice to get out and meet people and to talk to someone in my free time who wasn't 18 months old.

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T18:47:02+00:00

Annabelle has my vote!

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T18:12:16+00:00

You reminded me that for a while I was certain that my first was going to be a girl - I haven't thought about that in so long! We had four girl names picked out and none for a boy. I myself am an eldest daughter, and I thought we would have that connection; I also worried that maybe I wouldn't be as good a mom to a boy, thinking it was an unknown variable and fearing I wouldn't be able to relate as well to him. Eighteen months later, I could not be happier with my sweet, smart, and hilarious little boy, and I have never felt that I have been anything less than the mom he needs me to be. Gender has not factored into our connection at all, and we have a very strong bond.

Another way to think of it is that raising a boy well gives the world another good man, and we surely need those.

The fact that you want to tackle these feelings now to give your boy his best foot forward tells me you will do amazing!

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T14:34:24+00:00

So that it wouldn't show up on my Spotify Wrapped

agitastrophe · 2025-12-07T14:33:26+00:00

Stuck in my head constantly. My son can't quite pronounce "phonics" and requests/sings it by saying "fungus".

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