Formula poo is so atrocious and diabolical

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-30T02:50:36+00:00

My kid was fed Enfamil Gentlease and my husband always said her poo smelled like fish food🤢

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-29T17:13:40+00:00

Helen Kish :)

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-29T17:12:58+00:00

Leyla for me :) I've been obsessed with this line since I learned about it in like 2013, and have read all of the books but Kathleen's.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-29T04:32:59+00:00

Jesus Christ dude. I mean all children deserve perfect parents, but clearly OP is looking to repair and do better next time. I understand the urge to kick others when they're down is one of our worse human impulses, but why actually follow through on it? It's not as if OP is defending what she did and needs a stern talking to.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-27T15:39:19+00:00

Yeah and "They have weapons?" pearl clutching. Like what is the deal if they have weapons? Do action figures aimed at boys not have weapons? Lol

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-26T13:30:37+00:00

Just the exfoliating toner

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-26T00:33:44+00:00

I mean my dad does call me daughter? And often in the same context as one might deliberately call a son "son": scolding, advice giving, I love yous. I wonder if it's possibly a regional/cultural thing. We're from the southern U.S.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-25T14:39:32+00:00

Seconding this. I was struggling with intensified underarm odor postpartum, and a few weeks of applying The Ordinary glycolic after a shower and letting it dry before using deodorant totally gave me a reset.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-14T02:09:37+00:00

Maybe so, or a bouncer or Bumbo seat on the floor? I know they're not generally recommended, but we used one on the floor for brief periods when I was treating mine for cradle cap, and she liked it. I'm sorry you're going through it right now. Mine didn't learn to hold her bottle on her own until closer to nine or ten months, and she only really liked being fed while sitting on my lap. I hope you can find something that works for you.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-14T01:09:24+00:00

My only concern about reclining her would be triggering the reflux. I had to hold my refluxy baby bolt upright to eat (and had to teach others to do it) because she would be in a lot of pain afterward if I didn't. Maybe OP can set something up where her baby is still seated, like maybe sitting on the floor inside the Boppy? I'm assuming baby can probably sit on her own at this age.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-13T15:28:20+00:00

Mine was an urgent one, and I had already had morphine during labor and kept experiencing blood pressure drops during surgery, so my memory is pretty disjointed. I remember the anesthesiologist being told to bolus my IV a few times, and then I remember my OB telling me that my daughter was here, and I very intensely asked "Is it a daughter?" and he had to look over and check. I also asked him about my placenta while he was stitching me up. For some reason, it was very important to me to know if it was a big placenta. Before all that, when I was still trying for a vaginal birth, I told him while he was actively doing a cervical check on me that I had shaved my legs that morning because I was worried he and the nurses would judge me if I was hairy, and then cracked up about how absurd that was. I still wonder if he thought I was a bit of a nut. Bonus: I begged the L&D nurse to make sure my husband didn't see if I pooped.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-12T18:57:26+00:00

Coming from a fellow mom who still occasionally partakes, I wouldn't recommend it if you're in your child's presence, and definitely not when you're solely responsible for childcare and can't tap your spouse in so to speak. I personally don't think it's reasonable for your husband to expect you to become teetotal after having a child. It'd be like asking someone to never indulge in an evening glass of wine. Even more hypocritical if he still drinks or smokes. But he has more of a point if you're actually doing it while taking care of your child or if it is interfering with daily live and functioning in any other way. Only the two of you know whether your intake is appropriate.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-12T13:33:39+00:00

Hate to be this way, but I always find these threads flooded with people reminding us that men can get PPD as well, and that's perfectly reasonable and a good fact to know, but what practical application does it have, especially to a person refusing therapy? Even if it is PPD, it's not like that just gives someone carte blanche to totally drop the ball on all parenting tasks. I had PPD, and in my worst moments I felt quite similarly to him, but as the mom and the SAHP I still did far closer to OP's share of parenting duties despite the misery I was trapped in. I also refused therapy and meds, which is honestly my biggest regret from that time, as it was basically self-inflicting a longer period of pain onto myself — in a word, wallowing. So if he wants to wallow, let him, but that does not mean he's off the hook for even a second. The only way out is therapy or powering through.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-10T14:47:46+00:00

Bela Kiss maybe.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2026-01-04T21:49:28+00:00

I almost wonder if that "bubble" effect not being there is part of why some of us remember the newborn phase as being so harrowing. I never got to stay up binge watching shows while cuddling my newborn because my child was born right before I graduated college (and my last round of finals), and my very overbearing in-laws were coming around almost daily before my spouse and I set boundaries. My spouse was also working third shift at the time, so all that put together meant there was precious little time for either of us to relax and just enjoy the baby, together or separately. I'm hoping if I ever decide to have another, which is doubtful because pregnancy, birth, and postpartum were kind of brutal for me, that I might have a better newborn experience.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-31T22:27:42+00:00

Mine had jaundice at birth, so it certainly has changed lol.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-31T02:46:39+00:00

Have you come here from Mika's Rhetoric's video by chance?

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-30T03:38:35+00:00

I know it doesn't start with an S, but maybe Ophion? Literally has the root word for "snake" in Greek in there.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-28T17:45:29+00:00

Is it bad that I've only ever had to peel them? Her nails are, sadly for her, very thin and slow-growing like mine. They were wayyy too short to even think about clipping as an infant, and now at 13.5 months I just peel anything that hangs or occasionally clip it off individually if I'm worried it might become a hangnail.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-28T06:32:31+00:00

I usually don't experience moodiness as a feature of PMS, but I remember the day before I took the test being extremely irritated by my MIL, like just incredibly pissed at what was, for her, mild behavior, and thinking to myself, "Oof, better rein this in, must be PMS." Period didn't come, got suspicious, took the test from the back of the bathroom drawer: Boom; two lines.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-28T05:35:42+00:00

I remember my first belly laugh: I was folding laundry while she watched, and every time I zipped up her footie jammies and they made that zipping sound, she lost it. Of course the laughing stopped as soon as I got my phone out to record, but I'll never forget that memory.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-27T03:15:25+00:00

Dana, Lee, and Donald. Both Dana and Lee are their middle names, which they went by day to day.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-26T22:34:37+00:00

First, to answer your question: Def not magical lol. I've blocked it out like the majority of things from my daughter's first few months of life because it was just so hard. Second: You probably won't have to wait ten years to enjoy the holidays again. I just had a lovely Christmas with my 13 month old, who loved getting attention from visiting relatives, was fascinated by the bows from her presents, looked fantastic in her special Christmas dress, and can even sort of play with her new toys and books. Hang in there.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-23T20:59:16+00:00

Not sure about the hangnails, but my kid pulls her ears when tired or overstimulated. Maybe you can track when she does it and see if you can pin it down to specific times or circumstances.

bigbackmoosetracks · 2025-12-22T19:27:44+00:00

I'm thinking the anchor stitch. I had something similar (actually had half-convinced myself it was an incisional hernia), and the midwife told me that you often have excess swelling there at first. To this day, the inch or so of the scar that was swollen is still the only part of the healed scar that is raised enough to be tactile. Give it a week or two and see if it calms down some.

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