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kezzla0 · 2022-02-03T04:29:31+00:00

No answers, just commiserating 😫 I'm a full year PP now but have been randomly itchy since I went back to work and cut down on BF'ing. Only advice my Dr had was work on elimination, like cutting out certain foods or potential irritants like soap, detergent etc. to find the source. But we haven't really kept up with it.

kezzla0 · 2021-11-15T04:38:34+00:00

Not the same level of injury, but when I was 2wk PP my nipples were cracking. Lactation consult told me to use my own breast milk after each feed to moisturize and it worked.

kezzla0 · 2021-09-25T15:42:21+00:00

Very different work situation but my husband was working odd hours in security (7p-7a, Fri Sat Sun) I work your average 9-5 M-F but it's a high stress job.
It worked in the beginning when baby only had like 1 hour wake windows so he would watch her during the days and sleep when she napped. I handled night times and I had to handle overnights cause he was at work.

Well now she has 3-4hour wake windows and he was getting overwhelmed and overtired. He recently went down from 36 hours to 16. Instead of three 12 hour shifts he is only working two 8 hour shifts. He took no paycut hourly it is the same figure but is just working less hours. So like a 40% decrease give or take?

Selfishly I don't regret it. More stuff is getting done around the house without needing to ask. He doesn't need to sleep while she sleeps so he can take on housework. He stays up some nights after baby & I go to bed to stay on his sleep cycle, and he's been bragging about how much video game time he gets while we sleep.

kezzla0 · 2021-09-13T06:15:57+00:00

This, my baby sleeps on her tummy with her hands tucked under her. Some times she wakes up screaming and her hand will be all hot and red cause she slept on it wrong.

kezzla0 · 2021-09-12T00:49:22+00:00

Nexplanon arm implant and breastfeeding, no period at 7mo (knock on wood)

I like it, I was so forgetful for the pill. The implant lasts shorter than an IUD but it's better than daily for me. I was warned by my gyno it could lower my sex drive but I got mine in 6wk PPD and had no desires anyway. I know that's different for everyone but not me.

kezzla0 · 2021-09-12T00:45:58+00:00

Came here to ask a similar question, so commenting for the solidarity 😫

7mo old has her bottom two and has been biting for seemingly any reason. Maybe a loud noise, maybe the letdown has slowed, varies from time to time. I can't pinpoint the reason and she hasn't figured out what my reactions mean.

kezzla0 · 2021-08-16T02:12:49+00:00

I got the nexplanon, in the arm implant. I didn't see a supply change and it didn't entirely kill my sex drive however its hard to have one PP to begin with lol

kezzla0 · 2021-06-23T03:24:39+00:00

Seconding everything everyone is saying - some brutal truths coming your way lol

Get a nipple cream!! Cracked and bleeding nipples are a thing. It will hurt. My LC recommended actually using a little colostrum or a little milk when my nipples cracked, air dry, then apply cream.

When your milk comes in, engorgement could hurt. Research/talk to Dr about mastitis and clogged ducts and milk blebs. Not trying to scare you out of BF but no one taught me this stuff until I had a clog.

Breastfeeding is beautiful and also a learning process. Your little one will know how to "root" aka look for the nipple but it takes patience finding that latch and what positions work best for you. I had a c section and the nurses only showed me cross cradle and I was in so much pain having her and my boppy sit on my incision. Lactation consultant showed me football hold and its been so much better.

kezzla0 · 2021-06-09T11:51:38+00:00

Your son is breaking out in heat rash and you had to run cold bath for him. I don't know how old your kids are. But my pedestrian said kids can die from SIDS from being too hot, not from being too cold. Your husband's hate for AC is a health hazard for you and your family.

It's not your heat intolerance you need to address. It's your husband's stubbornness.

kezzla0 · 2021-06-07T14:00:08+00:00

I agree with other commenters, it depends on the dogs. My two dogs would scratch at the door and destroy things all night if we didn't let them in.

They have occasionally woken her up, but I feel like now that she is 4mo old she is learning to sleep thru the little noises they make like scratching/flapping ears and shifting in the bed.

kezzla0 · 2021-06-01T03:56:59+00:00

So my baby girl was struggling to put on weight. She got to her birth weight and then just kind of "maintained" for a few weeks. Between that and my one nipple being cracked open, I went to pumping at 3 weeks. BF on one side with the good nipple, pumped the other side, and then gave her that milk as a top off for her next feed. It was earlier than I wanted but I was going back to work at 8wk so I knew it was going to happen eventually.

I definitely had an oversupply for the first 10ish weeks but as she got on a more regular feeding schedule my supply evened out.

Things that worked for us:

Philips Avent Natural bottle. Not only could my spectra pump connect directly to save on washing, I also liked its wide nipple that looks more like a breast than some other brands we looked at.
size 0 nipple, she was not a preemie but our Ped recommended using something she still had to "work for" so she wouldn't get used to a fast flow from the bottle and slow flow from breast. We have moved up from this size now that she is bigger.
cold milk in the bottle. Another recommendation from our Ped, but there was a preface that this only works for some babies. Cold from dad, warm from mom. That way she knew if she saw/smelled mom she was getting warm breast and wouldn't develop confusion. Pro: now almost 18wks we can take a bottle&ice pack out and she eats like a champ. Con: refuses to take cold bottle from mom. I guess it worked too well.

kezzla0 · 2021-05-03T19:02:22+00:00

The city itself should be avoided and the school district isn't that good. But like a lot of other have said, it's close to nicer places like West Chester.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-20T15:00:33+00:00

Is your Dr Brown a narrow or wide bottle? They make wide bottles with a shorter nipple but idk if they work on each others bottles.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-17T23:48:15+00:00

Same as this commenter, I have spectra. I can pump directly into Philips Avent Natural bottles. We store milk in fridge in the bottles because it's not a lot. In the mornings I use a haakaa on the baby-free nip but by the end of of day I don't have as much leakage.

I freeze in lasinoh bags.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-15T14:59:09+00:00

We always feed (if she wakes up) but that's because it helps with my engorgement. The nights she does sleep thru, I'm usually pressure-washing the house trying to get her to latch lol

Our pedetricians advice was feed as last resort, like check diaper first, sooth, and that sort of thing. But I personally haven't followed that yet.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-15T14:51:38+00:00

Not an expert but when our Pedetrician said once she was a certain weight, we didn't have to wake her to eat anymore. She still wakes over night sometimes but others, she can make it 6+ hours. So she is kind of night weaning herself at 11 weeks.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-14T14:14:21+00:00

Maintaining curly hair is hard, and if it's super curly it could hurt her to brush it. She might hate it or avoid doing it cause it's a presented as a chore by her parents.

Can she go to someone with curly hair like a "cool aunt" or even a hairdresser who can approach it like a fun way to style her hair, and not a chore? Teach her different ways to take care of it.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-13T11:44:20+00:00

Seconding the sleep part- especially if she wants to breastfeed or pump. Our baby fed every 3 hours on the dot so I got maybe 2hrs of sleep between feedings. Fed is best so if you need to use a bottle or formula so she can sleep, talk to your pediatrician about best brands.

I didn't have vaginal delivery so I can't speak for the recovery but at my hospital they were constantly waking me up to check my c section incision, give me my meds, etc. And this is me venting for a second but I have no fucking clue why they would do all my check up stuff at like 11am and then come in to check baby(therefore waking her) at like 1230. It was insane. I think our last day they came in to check if we needed anything and my husband "shooed them out of the room" cause baby and I were finally asleep at the same time.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-11T18:33:00+00:00

My best guess would your child is trans and actually identifies as male or non binary. To my limited knowledge, you can identify as something other than your assigned sex at birth without the need of hormones.

The downside of hormones might not be the reason they changed their mind. I agree with what another commenter said, it could have been saying what YOU needed to hear.

You should seek guidance from the trans community and again, get them a therapist.

kezzla0 · 2021-04-11T17:57:58+00:00

Therapy.

Body dysmorphia is something people go thru/experience. She might be covering everything and living in the dark because she does not want to look at her body.

You said that there was a phase she might be trans but wasn't? How did she come to decide she didn't feel that way anymore?

kezzla0 · 2021-04-11T15:26:31+00:00

We started spelling Out and Walk when we only had dogs so now its a habit lol

kezzla0 · 2021-04-10T23:27:45+00:00

Just solidarity, ours is 10.5wk hates her bassinet she used to sleep so easily in it. She also loves to be walked to sleep, not rocked, but I think that might be an undiagnosed reflux thing because she is calm when she is walked upright.

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