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@waydodo This is so helpful. Thank you! One of my friends said it came back depending on “nutrient stores”. Her first time it came back at 2 months pp, and her second time at 2 years. Her theory was that she was “depleted” the second time. But I didn’t feel like that was true for me, however it...

He still nurses at night, still nurses a fair bit during the day despite liking solids. I hear the number of milk removals have the biggest impact on your period returning or not. I’m not in a hurry to wean or get pregnant again, but it’s been a trip meeting parents of kids the same age as him...

@robinrocks Some benefits of latching are that it’s better for jaw and some oral development. It has built on skin to skin, whereas you have to be more intentional about that with bottle feeding.

@joint_praise I’m 10 months into pumping, which was not my first choice. I do it because my baby struggles to transfer enough milk with just nursing. I also struggled a lot with secondary low supply, especially at the beginning, so I have a lot of complicated feelings about dropping pumps or...

@joint_praise Pumping to keep one’s supply up is a lot of work, but in this case you can tell it’s not for nothing.

@girl4god86 Lots of people have sex and end up with surprises

@focusedontheneedle I’m crossing my fingers that “mother tongue” will prove true!

@focusedontheneedle Hi! I’m an English speaker in Japan, also doing OPOL with my 1.5 year old. I am behind you in experience, but I have heard of these bumps in the road before for bilingual kids raised here. Solidarity, and I am interested in what others say!

@fromissouri Thanks for sharing your expertise! Your situation sounds like it has been so hard, but you’ve gleaned so many lessons. I appreciate you telling us your story.

@tincup Totally! By 19 I was already doing well in university, sharing a household with friends, working, in a loving relationship… I’m glad my graduation age didn’t hold me back from the experiences and independence that’s appropriate for that age.

@tgia413 Just anecdotally, I have a summer birthday and was 17 when I graduated from high school. I can’t imagine being 19.

@mgreene05 I’m kind of awed that you had her relatively young, and by being OAD have sooo much of your life ahead for not raising tiny children! Good for you!

@kwildson Fuck. This sounds so rough, pitocin I’m the first place makes labor SO much harder on the mother. At the end of the day, it’s your body and your life. Potentially grieving a second child you never had hurts fewer people than grieving and regretting a second child you end up having.

@sumeria People say it’s worth it to have the tiny baby years consolidated and out of the way sooner, but I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be able to be a quality parent for the hard years with more than one tiny kid

@2ndlight And broke and physically recovering and doubly stressed about breastfeeding and supply…. I think it would take to much sacrifice of my parenting ethos to cope with 2 under 2….

@2ndlight Mine is 19 months and I’m horrified when I meet people with two under two. I know I’m projecting and maybe that’s what they wanted or even planned for, but I just think that is too many small kids for one or even two parents to handle