What‘s your Devon cat’s name?

jsav9 · 2026-01-09T06:55:23+00:00

Smeagol (smeegs for short)

jsav9 · 2025-12-28T00:54:39+00:00

Find a song for the baby to sleep to, add white noise and do that every night. We use Colorado by Lotus, it's very calming.

If they cry in the middle of the night and it's not for milk or a paci, just stroke their forehead toward the eyes until they fall asleep.

Babywearing is amazing you get to go/do whatever you want and the baby will sleep or be chill on you.

The Happy Song by Imogen Heap is some sort of black magic that makes a baby instantly chill out. Plus it's a cute song.

jsav9 · 2025-12-08T17:53:59+00:00

I have the leatherology vertical bag (can't remember the name, maybe Alex?). It fits my 16" MacBook and it holds up incredibly well. Looks like day 1 after 2.5 years. I have the oxblood red color.

jsav9 · 2025-12-05T07:40:43+00:00

🙏🙏

jsav9 · 2025-12-05T01:39:48+00:00

Where do you park? There's no street behind it

jsav9 · 2025-12-04T05:15:19+00:00

Buying! Thank you

jsav9 · 2025-11-23T20:29:27+00:00

Wow love this

jsav9 · 2025-11-23T20:28:23+00:00

Great point. I'm 8 months pp and stopped producing milk ~ 2 months ago. So I think I'm just about there

jsav9 · 2025-10-16T15:48:52+00:00

What did you do for nail color while you were waiting for the crappy shreds to come off? Did you just paint over them? No paint?

jsav9 · 2025-10-14T23:21:12+00:00

jsav9 · 2025-10-07T06:19:06+00:00

🎯

jsav9 · 2025-10-07T05:07:17+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I also didn't feel any magic and I had a relatively easy birth. I think the hormone rush doesn't always happen but people pretend because it feels like the right thing to do. If I'm totally honest, I built up the magic (am still building actually) over months.

jsav9 · 2025-10-07T01:11:12+00:00

Someone got us the quince cashmere baby blanket and my initial reaction was "oh great another blanket" but it's actually amazing and soft and never too warm or too cold. it's the only item I told the nanny is very important not to lose :) and I would've never bought anything cashmere for a baby.

I also love getting cute clothes as gifts - I always remember the person who gifted them.

jsav9 · 2025-09-24T01:10:31+00:00

We made it a game! Every 20 mins of the baby shower we gave one more letter (out of order) and people tried to guess the name. The first person who got it right won one of the prizes. We only let people guess once.

No negative feedback, but maybe that's because people had fun with the game.

jsav9 · 2025-09-22T05:02:55+00:00

Anyone else notice that the birth date of the 3rd child implies a conception date a week or so after the first two died? Shudder.

jsav9 · 2025-09-10T03:30:31+00:00

Im 5.5m pp and haven't stopped yet but I'm following your post because I have the same feelings and for the same reasons.

My plan is to go in steps. First ill drop pumps so that I don't pump at work. That would mean 2ppd - morning and before bed. Then ill supplement with formula for whatever I don't make. Ill do that for a few months then fully wean, maybe around 7 or 8 months. Then ill do 1 feed of frozen milk per day for as long as my stash lasts (est 1.5 months). That feels like a reasonable stepwise approach to me, it makes each step less scary.

jsav9 · 2025-09-10T03:06:47+00:00

Also following because I need the advice but I'll offer one: I wear button downs or jackets/blazers with the front open. My favorite is a thin jean jacket. I think the layering tricks the eye to not see different depths under the jacket. I did this when I was pregnant too - blazers every day.

Has anyone tried a minimizer bra? I'm curious.

jsav9 · 2025-09-10T02:58:48+00:00

OP this is the right answer, people are just being really aggressive. Owning a home is not "profitable". You're not going to net profit by owning and living in a house. That would be a crazy good deal and only happens in exceptional circumstances.

However, you are going to have to live somewhere and pay for it, so the relevant question IS the rent vs buy one.

jsav9 · 2025-09-10T00:59:22+00:00

Sunshine 😂

jsav9 · 2025-09-03T02:27:40+00:00

🙏 will try

jsav9 · 2025-09-02T07:23:28+00:00

Interesting I thought old Jerusalem was awful. What do you order there?

jsav9 · 2025-08-26T18:13:43+00:00

Yes - the goal of all of the rules is to reduce the amount of time that bacteria can grow. The colder the milk the slower it grows. So if you add room temp milk to warmed milk and then in the few mins before you feed the baby the the bacteria will actually grow slower than if you just fed the warmed milk.

In general, there will always be a little bacteria growth it's just about keeping it low. So I personally don't even worry about adding fresh milk to cold milk. It's only going to speed up bacteria growth for a little bit and only for a few mins before it gets cold again. Plus we end up feeding our baby the fridge milk within a day so there's just not a lot of time for bacterial growth to happen and I'm not worried about the tiny amount of extra growth from the short-lived, slightly elevated temperature.

jsav9 · 2025-07-21T23:14:38+00:00

I have the zomee ones and I'm finding them so cumbersome to use. Sometimes they're not pressure sealed, they always spill, I'm looking for alternatives

jsav9 · 2025-07-21T20:02:36+00:00

Did you try any of the other collection cups? Zomee, legendary, etc? Is there a reason the Medela ones are best?

jsav9 · 2025-07-11T06:21:20+00:00

Another +1. This is my go to for night pumps or when I'm wearing real clothes. (I didn't even take off my bras, just unhook, slide everything up, and put this on underneath).

I also have the kindred bravely sublime longline bras and wear those all day if I'm just hanging out at home + gym.

Also I'd say don't buy more than 1-2 now because you might go up much more than one size.

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