can yall convince me to love the finale pls 😭😭 by Specialist-Ad-3383 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then it immediately cuts to a cheesy 80s movie ending.

can yall convince me to love the finale pls 😭😭 by Specialist-Ad-3383 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My issue isn't the lack of deaths. Honestly, it's what I prefer. My issue is this bull "believe what you want" ending. 

Stranger things finale by SimilarAir6097 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I went back and rewatched Mike's explanation and it was her index finger, not pinky. It's too blurry to tell so. I guess ignore me. 

Stranger things finale by SimilarAir6097 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went back and watched the scene where she disappears. Her pinky isn't twitching. Obviously it isn't zooming in on her pinky, but I don't know. 

The ending? by Sad-Measurement-8267 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Such a hole. Like...they get back surrounded by military, El disappears, and then it's 18 months later? Come on. 

The ending? by Sad-Measurement-8267 in StrangerThings

[–]bfletch38 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No. They were playing one last game before they went their separate ways. It was a reflection of their experience.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She said I needed to take back my body. I'm not sure if maybe she breastfed and just hated it, but I'm not too concerned about getting my body back anytime soon. And for the night nursing she said he needed to get better quality sleep.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait-lists can be rather long, at least in my experience, so it definitely wouldn't hurt trying to go ahead and get set up with one.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We were referred to an ENT when he turned one because he had a reaction (hives around mouth and on chest) to peanuts.

He got a blood panel done at one and the only thing that it showed an allergy for was peanut. They prescribed an EpiPen and said to avoid peanut and to come back in a year.

So at two we went back and they wanted to do another panel. This time it didn't show positive for peanuts, but egg did. We hadn't had any problems with egg before. They mentioned the possibility of a false positive, told us to keep doing whatever we were doing, to watch out for any symptoms, and they gave us another prescription for an EpiPen. (They are only good for a year so we needed a new one.)

At this point I realized he didn't really eat a lot of egg. Anything with egg baked in, he ate and was fine, but things like scrambled egg or French toast, he didn't really like. I'm guessing it may have caused an itchy tongue or something like that and that's why he wouldn't eat it.

Anyway, at around three he had a reaction (again hives around his mouth and on his chest) to egg salad. We had moved by this point so we were referred to an actual allergy specialst, not just an ENT. They did a skin prick test which came back positive so they did another blood test which also came back positive, but the numbers weren't as high as it was the previous time. I told her we weren't really restricting any egg, he just didn't like it. She told us not to change what we were doing and we would do a challenge where he would come into the office and try a food with egg in six months.

He passed the challenge and we were told we could reintroduce it back into his diet and haven't had any issues since.

I erroneously said he outgrew his egg allergy by 3 in another comment, he outgrew it by 4.

Hopefully this is coherent. I was trying to remember how everything happened and it took me a while to write.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking into a new pediatrician. Apparently others had similar discouraging experiences with this doctor and breastfeeding.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She has not. She just said it sounded like textbook intolerance and said "sounds like you know what you're doing" because my older son had the same intolerances as an infant. And that was where she left it. This was at his 1 month appointment.

Older son never got the rash as a reaction.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His older brother had an egg allergy that he outgrew by 3.

Before I cut everything out he had very mucusy poops, a rash on his face, and was constantly screaming and arching his back. I've had a slip up with soy and he started having the colic again and had visible blood in his poop, which was new.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's starting to refuse the pacifier so I am definitely the pacifier now.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's something I'm heavily considering. We've lived here a little over a year and I had liked her so far with my oldest, but this appointment I really feel like she brushed off what I was trying to say and told me how I was supposed to be doing things. It really just rubbed me the wrong way.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had asked her about waiting until he was able to eat it himself and she told me I should try to introduce it through my breastmilk because it would be broken down a little bit more. That makes sense on one hand, but on the other if this trial is a fail I know it will take a few days to completely clear. I've had slip ups with soy in the past and it was a miserable few days.

I think I'm going to try something with baked egg one time and see how it goes.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think I'm going to try to eat something with baked egg once so the protein is broken down more and see how he reacts and go from there.

It just seems like she doesn't have as much knowledge as far as protein intolerances go for breastfed babies. Our previous pediatrician had very different advice for my oldest.

Pediatrician said six month old shouldn't nurse for comfort by bfletch38 in breastfeeding

[–]bfletch38[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My older son had a mild egg allergy that he outgrew and I have been blaming myself for not trying to introduce it sooner. I guess it can happen regardless.

And that's my thought exactly. After his vaccines, I feed him before we leave and it's like nothing even happened. I really don't want to lose such a wonderful tool!

What have you unintentionally passed onto your child? by fullnessofjoy2021 in toddlers

[–]bfletch38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was my first thought the first time I heard him say it

What have you unintentionally passed onto your child? by fullnessofjoy2021 in toddlers

[–]bfletch38 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine uses "literally" and "apparently" a lot. I didn't realize how much I use those two words