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@itjesus I can see why you love it then! It’s easy to drive and gets incredible gas mileage!

@itjesus This is my car and I can’t wait to trade it in 😂 I don’t see how more than one car seat could fit in it, we can’t even fit our kid and two small pets 😭I can see it being a great car for shorter people, but we have to have the front seats all the way back to be comfy. My best friend...

@cbsbbs Glad we’re not alone! We are still on kid 1, but will likely have 2-3, plus a dog and cat. We have a paid off Toyota Camry that is our road-trip car, and it could easily fit three slim car seats. The trunk is pretty massive too. Eventually, we’ll trade in my crappy tiny Ford crossover...

@question The others have it right, it’s not safe to restrain the arms of a baby while bed sharing.

@nicolecham Adding to the crowd, but I’d definitely take whatever free one they give you just as an insurance policy. Obviously the odds are that everything with baby will be totally fine, but there are situations (preemie, NICU for illness, etc) where it might not be a bad idea to give a little...

@boby777 As a former crunchy person, here’s the truth: nature doesn’t care about you and your baby. All that nature and evolution cares about is that a decent amount of moms and babies survive birth. Which, frankly, is a very low bar…a baby exiting the vaginal canal instead of the sun roof can...

@follow_the_word I really enjoyed this. We also lied through our teeth about where baby slept. We both worked full time and had a terrible sleeper who was fundamentally un-sleep-trainable. I’ll never forget trying to explain our set up to a “first best or nothing” person…we followed safe sleep...

@bkgray02 If you’re mostly pumping, I’d start by just dropping the nursing sessions. Do a mix of breast milk and formula in the bottles and then change the ratios until it’s all formula. In terms of weaning from pumping, there are a bunch of ways to do it. I dropped to 3-4 pumps a day, took...

@msl74pc Quit! Your life will get so much easier. No amount of breast milk is worth your time away from baby. Once you quit, that’s so much more time for snuggles instead of pumping and washing pump parts. I was mostly BF with some pumping, and we are almost 3 weeks into EFF. It’s so much...

@conner74 Kendamil original. We started using it with my older child, because we were combo feeding so the smaller scoop was nice. It was also the height of the 2022 shortage, and I could always snag a can at target. We stuck with it this time, and I love that it’s palm oil free. It’s also...

@christopherpriestley Honestly, we’ve found 1-2 to be significantly easier than 0-1 in terms of how hard it’s been to adjust. Babies are no longer an unknown. We’re already held hostage by a toddler, what’s one more? All of the things you’ve listed (minus relationship struggles, though I’d...

@findinghisway I love this story! I did all the things to make EBF work, and drove myself insane to the point I was weighing my baby multiple times a day and had to go on medication. Once we moved to combo feeding, I loved it and we happily made it a year. Like you, if we hadn’t implemented...

@londoj 9 months! I went in with the expectation that we’d be lucky if he slept through the night before his first birthday so it felt like a victory. That being said, we’re not sleep trainers, so I’m sure he would have slept through the night earlier if we had.

@rohanakumara If you’re feeling guilty because you’re changing your mind, go into it with an open mind. The internet makes it seem like it’s all or nothing. A lot of us end up combo feeding, either very briefly (to give baby some colostrum), for 1-2 years, or somewhere in between. If you’re...

@palomaespecial I’ll definitely ask, but I feel like it can’t be safe to give it that often? The last two puke-fests have been driving locally 😭

@chenml60 I EBF and combo fed when we bed shared (like you, I found the “I’d never risk it!” to be profoundly unhelpful…the fact that they didn’t resort to co-sleeping was proof positive that their kids never got as difficult as mine!), so we technically followed the safe sleep 7. BUT, it’s been...

@lewis5398 We’re using some RTF for the first couple of weeks, mostly for ease (we’re combo feeding, so the cost won’t be a huge burden) but then will switch over to just batch prepping sterilized formula. It’s pretty easy to sterilize powder formula, look into a kettle and the Dr. Browns pitcher!

@tracyqueen Given the risks of stillbirth once you get post-dates, I wouldn’t push it past your due date. I was in the same boat and, given the Arrive trial, booked me in for my section at 39+0. They also wanted me to come in asap with any labor signs…the goal was to avoid labor, since my kiddo...

Important disclaimer: we won’t turn FF before 2-2.5 (will do everything to make it to 2.5) no matter what. My son is currently 22 months. We travel by car pretty regularly. Our parents live 2 and 4 hours away, we do a lot in the city an hour away, and we vacation at a cabin 6 hours away several...