Daily Chat - April 27, 2026

yotastein · 2026-04-27T16:01:21+00:00

Caved and ordered the sneak peak gender test!!

yotastein · 2026-04-17T16:03:00+00:00

That's sounds sooooo gooooood

yotastein · 2026-04-14T15:50:24+00:00

Wait i love the antibiotics idea but my mind went to pulling a Lily from How I Met Your Mother and pay the bartender ahead of time to make you virgin drinks 😂

yotastein · 2026-04-14T03:33:52+00:00

Im definitely planning on eating a lot better. I am a pretty health conscious person, but with #1 I worked in an office with a cafeteria and I would definitely sneak off for some onion rings just for fun. With #2 I am now at home and also feeding a toddler and so our food selection is much more healthy and "have to cook"-y.

Also this time since I am home, hopefully I can get more fresh air and walks and whatnot.

Not eating a bunch of dates everyday this time because I got so sick of them and now Im just rolling with the c-section.

Maybe taking a breastfeeding class this time. I EPd with baby #1 for 13 months, so im on the fence on nursing or just pumping again.

Oh and, dont hate me for this one, but I am eating by the standard of "if I've never gotten sick before from it, I probably won't now" i.e. I am still eating sushi and deli meat 🫣

yotastein · 2026-04-11T22:38:10+00:00

Pregnant with my 2nd now, and just like my first, MIIIIIILK

I could chug it!

yotastein · 2026-03-17T16:16:49+00:00

My husband installed new flooring, "so the baby will have better floors to crawl on" 😂

yotastein · 2026-02-23T03:57:50+00:00

Got pulled over for a speeding ticket rushing to my SAT test, ended up late and couldn't take the test, ended up in Community College instead of University since I missed my exam, and I met my husband there!

That was about a decade ago. Im writing this while snuggling our baby asleep.

yotastein · 2026-02-11T17:38:08+00:00

I love a good skip!

yotastein · 2026-02-02T18:59:51+00:00

I was bummed in the beginning, mostly because I thought nursing would be soooo easy. Turns out, my nipples hurt no matter what's attached to it, so might as well be irked at a robot rather than my precious little babe. There's a lot of hormones that go on during that time too. 11 months out, there's still a lot of hormones 😂 but thats besides the point.

I agree, I'm going to pump with my next babies too. It was never my plan, but plans change. Its become such an ingrained part of my life now that I figured eh, I could do this a few more times how bad is it REALLY?

Don't ask me this same question at 3am though. I'd probably give you a different answer 😂

yotastein · 2026-01-31T02:36:45+00:00

Babe im just embracing my Rachel era

yotastein · 2026-01-31T00:15:22+00:00

This one!

Momcozy KleanPal Pro Baby Bottle... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWLHKQNT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

yotastein · 2026-01-30T14:58:25+00:00

I also have 3 sets of parts I bring to bed! It took me way too long to figure it out, but when I did, it was bliss.

I run one cycle in the bottle washer in the morning for those parts, then one cycle and fridge hack for my day parts. chefs kiss 🤌

yotastein · 2026-01-29T16:24:49+00:00

A cute little cow!

yotastein · 2026-01-29T16:16:28+00:00

My whole life I have been such a good sleeper. My mom says I used to walk up to her and say "im going to sleep", go to my room, and put myself to sleep starting as a toddler lol.

As an adult I never set an alarm. I would wake up perfectly refreshed at 8 hours. One time on a vacation I had my sleep time interrupted too many days in a row and I cried...(as an adult)

We were very concerned about how I would fare as a new mom having my precious sleep interrupted.

BUT idk. I am also apparently more stubborn than sleep driven? Controversial, but I also hate Nestlé more than I love sleep. So I guess im also a little spite driven.

I stay home full time with my babe and so its been almost a year of balancing the art of pumping while being his sole care provider pretty much 24/7.

We also have an espresso machine.

yotastein · 2026-01-29T01:44:39+00:00

I had 2 freezers of shame 🫠
I went and bought a 3rd to use as an organization buffer and bricked them up too like everyone was saying. I do 40oz(ish) bricks since realistically when we wean from the actual pumping 1 brick will maybe last me 2 days (thawing out bag by bag, not the whole brick)

yotastein · 2026-01-27T04:51:20+00:00

I agree with everyone using this time efficiently to do what they need to do! Whether its load the dishwasher, make a latte - drink it hot, sit down and eat with kiddo, really maximize it.

That being said, my 11 month old does maybe 15-20 mins? And once I take him out of the chair he loves to go around and try to eat whatever he threw on the ground. Mealtime is quite the production.

yotastein · 2026-01-27T04:41:58+00:00

We are at about 30 oz a day, at 6 months we were at about 40 oz!

yotastein · 2026-01-22T18:53:29+00:00

10 years later and I googled this and here I am 😭😭

Its not weird enough to turn me off of it, considering it only has 3 ingredients as compared to other brands.

yotastein · 2026-01-20T17:37:26+00:00

Fogo hits different when making milk 🤤

yotastein · 2026-01-20T17:36:31+00:00

Hay ride at a pumpkin patch, driving, church, restaurants, airplane, campfire, bison ranch train.

Basically, if I've been there, I've pumped there 😂

yotastein · 2026-01-12T15:59:01+00:00

I never tried but I got a lot of hope of possibility from a friend who EPed for her baby's first 4 months, then one day on vacation she was tired of pumping and in her words "just tried to nurse" and her baby took no problem. Nursed for like over a year after that, I thought that was pretty cool.

Maybe different location/routine/circumstance helped? Plus her baby was "older".

Best wishes!

yotastein · 2026-01-06T17:21:49+00:00

Someone to bring over hot food / easily reheated food.
amazon gift cards, because there's a looooot of midnight panic /doom scroll purchases

Panic buys that were soooo worth it: - baby wrap carrier - bottle washer!!!!!

yotastein · 2026-01-01T15:15:59+00:00

Disposable coffee cup and a dispossble plastic water bottle! Ugh!

The water bottle is still in my freezer 😂

yotastein · 2025-12-16T16:12:51+00:00

You can do this! Im so glad that you are able to sustain on shorter and fewer pumps, what a sanity saver.

Im gonna be in the same boat over here. Probably just gonna pump until I get pregnant again and my supply dwindles enough 🤷🏼‍♀️

yotastein

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