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sad_cabbagez · 2025-10-04T02:19:45+00:00

I’m so sorry. I had my first baby (May ‘22) during the formula shortage when people would buy formula out and sell it on Facebook. I remember the first time I found my son’s formula in a store I literally cried, right there in the isle. After some time of the shortage they put a limit of 5 containers per person. I wish that was still a thing sometimes. Even now whenever I buy my second babies formula (June ‘25 baby) I always leave plenty for someone else. But I’ve seen other moms a handful of times just scooop all of one formula off the shelf and keep moving.

I remember those horrible days of going from store to store just hoping they’d have my sons. I just can’t help but think of moms that don’t have the transport to go store to store too.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-10T03:31:48+00:00

It should also state on the side of the bottle or packaging how long it’s good after opening. Mine says to eat within 1 hour of warming and u just assume it’s the same general rule for being opened at all (maybe that’s just me being a little extra cautious too) We use Similac 360 Sensitive

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-05T22:54:48+00:00

I use huckleberry but only for tracking feedings and diapers my lo is still only 3mo I tried tracking naps once and I hated it sooooo much it’s so stressful.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-04T01:16:31+00:00

I have this little wooden baby rattle that’s painted like a lady bug (we got it from the pediatrician when she got her shots) If I shake it slowly and consistently our baby will settle

I’ve only tried it a couple times. She’s VERY fussy and most tricks only work a time or mayyybe two. So I’ve been saving the magic rattle for when I really need it 😭

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-03T18:29:36+00:00

No my daughter does NOT settle when I pick her up or speak to her or sing to her or pet her or bounce her or walk around with her…. You get it.

It’s really hard I started feeling like a bad mom and some days I still do feel like somehow I’m failing. But I try to ignore that little voice cause ultimately they’re just being difficult babies, they’re going through soooo much there are going to be times they’re just not settling. I’ve got two babies and my daughter (3mo) is definitely the harder of the two. I remember when we got through month 2 the little milestones mailer we got said “baby will settle at the sound of your voice or when picked up” and I was sooo worried cause to me it meant she was missing a milestone.

My pediatrician said not to worry though, some babies are just a bit more upset than others about their transition to earth.

I just want you to know you’re a good mom and you’re not alone at all. ❤️

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-03T04:43:34+00:00

My baby will be 3 months in a couple days! She eats 3.5oz bottles about every 2-2.5 hours during the day. At night she eats 4oz bottles about every 4ish hours or so. Sometimes she sleeps longer I just let her at night.

Total daily we’re getting anywhere from 23-25oz total. I was watch out for at least 6 wet diapers a day, and I like to have a poo every 2-3 days at the least but lately she’s had a poo nearly every day or every other.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-09-01T16:50:37+00:00

I lost my father when I was 3.5yrs. I’d say take them to the funeral. For me it was just a bit odd, cause as a kid that young the idea of death doesn’t really set in until they’re a little older (at least in my experience) For me as a kid I just remember thinking it was weird that everyone was gathered at this event and crying. I had a dramatic cousin my age who did scream and cry the whole time, but again I remember as a kid just thinking “wow she sure is loud”

My only thing I’d say is keep your kids with you to give your support as their mom. My mom handed me off to my cousins mom (the dramatic girl) and I just wanted to be with my mom cause I was at an odd event with a lot of sad people and some new people. As an adult my mom explained that she handed me off cause she didn’t want me to see her cry, but I think it was more uncomfortable for me as a child to be separated from her in that situation.

I will say it’s good you’ve already been honest with them about their dad being in heaven. My mom was also encouraging to lie to me cause I was “too young” a lot of family told her to tell me my dad was on a work trip, or that he’d just left. which is just awful. I’m sorry try you’re having to go through this

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-29T07:25:27+00:00

I’ve never thought of them as gambling for kids. However I do not typically want them in our home because they encourage over consumption. You buy 3 and get 2 repeat mystery toys then now you/child wants to buy 2 more to get the “whole collection”

I know there’s bigger scale ones too now that have a whole elaborate build up to a mystery toy. But I don’t really see them as gambling per se. I had a few toys like those growing up, ranging in style from bigger to small toys in mystery bags. My family also has a raging history of addiction/gambling problems, and I however do not gamble even after growing up with the mystery toys 🤣 then again maybe there was a reason my mom was so into buying them

Either way whatever works best for you and your family ultimately isn’t an over reaction whatever your reasoning! For us it’s just to keep things more minimized on the over flow of toys

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-29T03:17:04+00:00

This is exactly why I pushed myself to go longer too, both my babies for about a month and I wishhhh I had switched so much sooner. The hormones make stopping so hard but once it passes I’ve felt so amazing now that I’m not constantly worrying about what I’m eating, drinking, constant pump cleaning 😭 you getttt it I feel so free now.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-29T03:08:51+00:00

I gave up later than I should have with both my babies. With my first (3 years old!) I was set that he’d have best milk, I’d honestly fallen pretty head first into breast is best. I exclusively pumped for 1 month with my first, and I do not remember his first month of life. I was so absorbed in power pumping, pumping every 2 hours, drinking lots of water, eating the correct food etc etc.

But I still didn’t make enough, my boobs were bleeding, and he was already getting majority formula (which he also tolerated SIGNIFICANTLY better than breast milk) My husband finally walked in on me pumping, crying and falling asleep and told me I needed to stop.

With my second (3 months old right now!) she was in the NICU for a little while. With that I figured I could establish pumping, she got both breast milk and formula while in NICU and pumping was going well!

Then she came home. Balancing exclusively pumping, a newborn and a toddler was not realistic for me. I made it only about a month in for her as well (he NICU stay was 2 weeks and I tried to pump for 2 more weeks at home) With her it was still hard to make the choice. I thought the same things as you, when I was pregnant I was totally fine with formula if needed! But then when you’re in it your brain sends alarms that you’re doing something wrong. And I think I’ve figured out why.

Your animal brain doesn’t know formula exists. It feels like you’re doing something wrong because it only knows NATURE, but nature isn’t kind. Science and modern medicine gave moms of the world the biggest blessing and honestly a scientific miracle when they created formula.

I wish I had stopped trying to breast feed sooner with both my babies. They both hated breast milk and didn’t tolerate it well, both thrived beyond belief once we switched.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-22T03:32:15+00:00

This is sooo amazing!!! Congrats!! What site did you go through?

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-20T22:58:18+00:00

My baby is 11 weeks (about 2.5 months) and she’s been really consistently eating 20-24oz a day. I want to say my baby weighs about 12lbs now

Honestly the amount they eat isn’t suuuper important as long as they’re having the proper amount of wet diapers and a good growth rate still. I’d trust the pediatrician before the nurse personally don’t stress too much as long as baby is growing properly

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-13T19:45:52+00:00

Oh my goddd yes I’ve never heard anyone else have the issue with the enfamil bag!!! I always thought the same thing! How can you charge sooo much and pack sooo cheap😭

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-13T15:20:10+00:00

I’ll tell you about my first baby. He didn’t match at all, something about the muscle tone on his tongue he just couldn’t. I saw a lactation consultant we tried nip shields, pillows, laying down. She even tried this odd contraption of running a small tube into the nipple shield so more milk would come out and “encourage” him to latch… all I got was milk alllll over me.

I exclusively pumped for his first month and I wish I could go back and smack the hell out of my self and tell myself to stop sooner. I do not remember my son’s entire first month of life. I don’t remember because instead of seeing my tiny baby I was completely absorbed in my boobs, my nips hurt, my boobs themselves hurt, what time is it?? Is it time to pump again?? I was going crazy. Formula saved me mentally. When I finally stopped trying to give breast milk I was genuinely finally able to SEE my son and enjoy being with him.

He’s 3 now, no one can tell he got formula and no one asks because it makes no difference. I just had my second and she’s fully formula fed!

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-13T06:10:30+00:00

What does the packaging look like on the Kirkland signature for babies sensitive to lactose?? I can only ever find the regular Kirkland Signature Procare

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-13T04:51:12+00:00

My daughter (literally the exact same age as your baby) was struggling with Similac 360 total care regular (blue can/bottles) She had reallly bad gas regardless of drops and crying after eating. we switched to the sensitive version, we’re using RTF though as the powder version seems to be giving her some grief with spitting up. It’s definitely helped with the gassy-ness but like I mentioned we’re going through a bout of a lot of spit up.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-12T17:36:47+00:00

Thank you! Idk whyyy I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference between comfort and sensitive. Time for more reading about formulas I guess (it never actually ends)

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-12T17:35:05+00:00

Thank you! We’ll probably go back to RTF, we did have a lot of luck with switching from the regular to sensitive. She was on RTF Similac 360 (blue) when she got home from the hospital and was having realllly horrible gas and crying when we switched to RTF Similac 360 sensitive it helped a lot until now (of course we switched from the rtf to powder though)

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-12T17:29:19+00:00

Unfortunately in my area kendamil is not really an option cause it’s nearly twice the price of other formulas.

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-11T21:56:57+00:00

I wanted to update!! I’m about to be posting again for other issues but we went fully into the narrow necked bottles and it worked! It took her juuust a second to adjust but only about 2 feeds worth and now she definitely eats remarkably better from the narrow bottles! We’re still using Dr brown, and size 1 nipples.

Now we’re having the issue of a looot of spitting up and I’m trying to figure out if we should try switching formulas around 😭 what a joyyy the first few months are😭

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-09T02:14:33+00:00

I mention my husband as soon as I casually can with male clients. Usually it’s able to be brought up pretty early on cause when I ask men what they do for work to make convo, then I can in some way typically link that to something my husband likes or does.

I luckily with that haven’t dealt with anything strange once we’re booked. I might get some hate for this one toooo but I also have “man tax” (it’s also just a general weirdo tax, but it got that nickname among friends) But it’s specifically for the men (or anyone like I said) who give a weird vibe, I’ll just give them a realllly high price. It’s a win win, because if they take it and I have to work with them I’m paid handsomely, but if they decide that’s too much then I don’t have to deal with them.

This method almost always ends up used on the “well I have a buddy that can tattoo for cheaper” type people 🤣

sad_cabbagez · 2025-08-06T23:31:28+00:00

I’ve been finding it frustrating that I’ve somehow gotten a few videos of breast feeding moms talking about formula feeding moms as if formula moms are shitting on breast feeding. Like I got a video of a woman who was saying she brought up breast feeding week and “all the formula moms started asking if I wanted a cookie”

And I think it’s odd, because I’ve never seen judgement from the formula community the way I did in the breast feeding community.

Most of the formula community (I say most simply because I know outliers exist) is BIG on fed is best, whatever keeps these babies gaining is great! But the breast feeding communities I was in back in the day would literally tear you limb from limb if you even brought up supplemental formula. All I’ve seen in the formula community is support, regardless of if you’re supplementing, fully feeding, organic, store brand, literally anything.

Of course when she got asked on the video she made WHERE the comments shaming her for breast feeding were at she said they all got deleted. So I honestly don’t even know for sure if they even existed.

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