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Eyashusa_sl said:
One thing about being on formula at an early age is I know my kid has plenty of Iron.
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Amen to that! Breastfed for about 3 months before my wife's supply dried up we suspect due to stress of going back to work.

Been on formula ever since, but we will try and breastfeed again with our 2nd child due in September. Breastfeed for as long as we can, but we don't stress if she has to stop or can't do it anymore.

My son is nearly a year old, and I guess we switch over to whole milk soon! That will be fun. No more powder! haha
 
Izo

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joeboo_sl said:
We do the Polyvisol, our kid doesn't mind it as long as it's mixed into a decent amount of milk/formula in his bottle. I didn't realize there was better tasting versions of it out there though. The stuff just looks gross, turns his milk blackish-green.
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The girls' hematologist said not to have them take the iron with milk/formula. /shrug that's how we did it for awhile until they said something. There's also Polyvisol with Iron, which is what we used, and also supplemented with extra iron. The Trivisol is just less vitamins, 3 instead of 7 I think in the poly.
 
Joeboo

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Yeah I guess I stated that wrong, we just do the polyvisol with the extra iron in it, no iron supplement by itself. I'll be glad when we're done with it, the only thing worse than spitup milk is spitup black/green milk. Yuck.
 
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Wife's off the pill again. Going for a second kid.
Great, months of being scared lie ahead. Again.
 
Joeboo

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My wife and I both want a second kid, but after the horrible ordeal of the first fresh in our minds(2 months in NICU), we're pretty hesitant about pressing our luck again a 2nd time. Since she had pre-eclampsia the first time around we were told the odds of it being an issue again are about 40%. We obviously don't want any health issues with our kids(1st one is healthy as a horse thank god) but I also worry about my wife's health, that high blood pressure is all sorts of issues for strokes and other things.

I don't know, maybe I worry too much, but I'm not sure the risk is worth it in our case. We have 1 amazing, healthy kid, I'm not sure we should press our luck.
 
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joeboo_sl said:
My wifes c-section wasn't quite high-level emergency, but it wasn't really planned either. Went to the hospital on a Friday for pre-eclampsia, put on blood pressure medication, the first couple days admitted doctors are laying out plans for her to stay in the hospital all the way until term, which is like 10 weeks(or as far as she can go until her BP gets too high). Wife is dreading 10 weeks in the hospital, so Monday morning rolls around and we decide that I should go ahead and go to work, this looks like a long-haul hospital stay. I go home, shower, change, start my commute to work and my wife calls on her cell phone balling her head off "GET BACK HERE IM DELIVERING IN 30 MINUTES". Had to rush to the hospital, her BP had spiked and it was too dangerous for her and the baby so they did the C-section ASAP. I step foot in the hospital, am rushed to the operating room where she's already on the table and about to go, and kid is out like 5 minutes later. Was crazy shit.
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Aww that sounds similar to my experience with my twins. I had gone to a normal check up for my weekly NST and the nurse commented on the contractions being pretty regular. I dismissed it bc no shit. I'd been hurting for weeks. Whatever. but the doctor wanted to check me and turned out I was 6cm and in labor. Who knew. A quick ultrasound revealed the twins were transverse and breech and I'd need a C-section.
They told me to get to the hospital (across the street) and when I called my husband, I immediately started bawling my head off! I guess it's an "unexpected labor" reaction?? lol he thought we'd lost one of the twins bc I was crying too hard to speak. Anyway, one of the PA's drove me to the hospital (I tried to walk but they chased me down and acted like I was retarded).
Same story, the doc was waiting on my husband, rushed him in the OR and BAM they had me sliced open and the babies were here. Whirlwind. I never even had time to think about it. I pretty much only remember bits and pieces. Mostly the anesthesia doc telling me to breath, over and over.
 
chaos

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Yeah, it is especially bad with my oldest two because they sleep in the same bed in the same room, so they are up to all kinds of bullshit. I posted before that they were sneaking downstairs and in our room in the middle of the night so we had to put up gates and stuff. I figure the best I can hope for is to just get them to stay in bed, which I have managed most times by taking away their shit. The problem is that my 3 year old is hardcore, she cares not for trivial possessions. So sometimes she just shrugs it off like "whatever, take it, imma do what I want anyway" but my 5 year old really doesn't like it, so she peer pressures the younger one to act right at bedtime.

Like, right now, they are in bed, they just got this whole new Sophia the First bedroom set because they are slaves to Disney's consumer mind rays, so now the deal I made is they get to keep it all as long as they stay in bed, they can talk or whatever as long as it is in bed. It is working tonight.
 
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After 8.5 months of exclusive breastfeeding (no formula) I finally touched my freezer stash last night for the day care bottles today. I gotta somehow keep breast feeding for about another 2 months before we can go to cow's milk...think I can do it.

Honestly we are also in the middle of selling the house/moving/wtfever and the more of the freezer stash that is gone the better - moving companies are being a real bitch about moving that with stuff in it.

My kid still wont watch TV...unless its lego ninjago apparently. Say the word "book" though and he'll crawl across the room to the bookshelves and pull them out til he finds a favorite. (He loves I love you through and through).
 
Falstaff

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My kid is obsessed with Wheel of Fortune and, for some reason, the weather forecasts on the news. But most TV never holds her attention for more than a couple seconds.
 
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Vandyn_sl said:
No, that would be Frozen. I've been contributing to that bank because of that movie since it came out.
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Omg yes. It is amazing. The prices for Frozen merchandise is through the roof right now online and is sold out everywhere in stores. I wanted to get my almost two year old something for her birthday in a few weeks since she is absolutely in love with Frozen but I'm going to hold off until closer to the date. It is pretty crazy, I don't remember hype this big around any of the old Disney movies.
 
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ok based on this thread I finally went and attempted to figure out WTF Frozen was all about.

I read the plot and was like hmmm I thought it was supposed to be like a take on the Snow Queen...do I not remember that fairy tale correctly? Went and googled the Snow Queen. WTF the only thing in common with that is snow, shards (not even a mirror), and character names.

So I watch the "Let it Go" video.

And I am like....I should like this. Its Idina Menzel. Why don't I like this?

I think about it all the way into work when it hits me - I have seen this before. Its fucking Wicked with snow. Seriously. It was like having deja vu. And apparently its not a novel idea - I googled "Frozen is wicked" and a whole bunch of people noticed this. Like you could replace Let it Go with Defying Gravity and no one would know.

So annoying.







Then I had Let it Go stuck in my head all fucking day.
 
lindz

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Watch the movie. You'll hate it the first time through. I left the theater thinking 'wtf was that, that is not a Disney movie'. It has bizarre pacing, over the top musical style and a dreadful comic relief character. But it grows on you and has an appeal to kids that all the old ones, no matter how good they were, just never had. Don't know what it is but they hit something!

And Let it Go is a brilliant song. Even after hearing it 200 times a day for the last 5 months.
 
Izo

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Ladies, ladies. No need to feel old or illiterate. This is nothing a good old fashioned mud wrestling match can't solve.
 
lindz

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Huh? Did my post come off as confrontational? I was telling her she should watch a Disney movie and how bizarre she'll probably find it.

I don't think either of us really cares about "clashing".
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