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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Related to the chicken discussion - am I correct in thinking that it's legal to own up to 3 chickens in SF if you have a yard?
I think so, but my "knowledge" is based on that movie about chickens in SF. I'm pretty sure you can't have roosters inside the city limits. I know that's the case in Portland.
Dunno, but most of the population was still in the countryside during WWII.
Nah, urban population surpassed rural sometime before 1920. [link]
Bleah. I'm fine with supplementing and/or weaning in theory, and the rational part of my brain knows that lots of babies don't even get five months of pure breast, but the irrational part feels shitty that my stupid breasts can't supply enough to make it to six.
It's not their fault that we don't have maternity leave that allows for the recommended nursing time in the US.
You made it darn close, especially given that you had such a rough start of it all. Give those girls a hand, supplement as needed, and send me your address again, because I have to mail you something.
Nah, urban population surpassed rural sometime before 1920. [link]
This is what happens when I start telling lies.
Pants on fire!
JZ, your breasts can supply it fine. They just prefer real baby doing the milking, rather than a machine. It's completely normal and really, it's way more natural. Of course Matilda's going to be better at getting milk from you. You're at work. There is no shame in supplementing with formula if you have to, and it's not going to harm her. She'll still be getting the benefits of breast milk at home.
It's so hard to be a new mother. Please don't beat yourself up because a natural process performed by your body functions better when it receives natural stimulation. That's like getting mad at yourself because a vibrator doesn't take you out to dinner.
Cindy, let it be known that I choked on my Diet Pepsi.
Also, that I *really* wish someone had told me that, in those words, back when I was flipping like a mammal about my production issues with the pump.
It's not their fault that we don't have maternity leave that allows for the recommended nursing time in the US.
Ah, that old familiar rant. Family leave policies in the US and how often, how profoundly they conflict with family care recommendations in the US, are best not thought on too long as it leads to 'splodey heads.
That's like getting mad at yourself because a vibrator doesn't take you out to dinner.
I'm still bitter, but, heh. This is lovely.
And I choked and snorfled my Diet Coke. If that's not COMM-able, I don't know what is.
Cindy hits it right out of the park.
Aw, I'm sorry, Plei. I was never a very successful nurser, although I gave it the old school try with all three children, so I don't like to say too much about it, too often.
In theory, I think breast feeding is the only way to fly. In practice, something always kept me from succeeding much or for too long. I never want to discourage anyone. because I didn't get great support. Dh's family thought I was nuts for trying. My mother nursed me, but her support amounted to her saying she never had a problem and that I'd get the hang of it (in all fairness to my mum, she doesn't know I feel that way, and I know in my heart she wasn't trying to undermine me, she just didn't understand what kind of support I needed, and her attempts to make it less intimdating just backfired).