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@pastorchrisparker Keep in mind that people tend to be biased by their experiences. Most EBF mothers never looked into research and data on formula feeding because they didn't need to. Some of them then give over the top advice about how their choice is better than something they have never...

@internetimm362 Yes, but it was his office that handled paperwork requests. The office staff was entirely female, and there were around 10 MFM specialists in total there, male and female. I think it was more of a bureaucratic situation where everyone was being very literal, which resulted in...

@pheadablessed 100%. I would frame it this way: OP is in sales right now, selling the products her company makes, likely with the support of a team to handle marketing, ops, logistics, pricing, etc, to clients who would derive value from the product. As a social media influencer, she and/or...

@dliljengren To be fair it was the doctor's office that handled the note situation and not the doctor (MFM specialist) himself. Their reasoning was that I would have been 35w5d and my condition did not require bed rest, so they couldn't say that I wouldn't be able to perform my desk job. By...

@ecf Mine wasn't the standard leave since my C-section was planned at 36w. I wonder if that might have been why the doctor's office was being very literal.

@trinichristiannudist Yeah, by that point I didn't have the mental bandwidth to deal with bureaucracy and I was just waiting for my condition to worsen enough to get that C-section. TBH the disability leave probably wouldn't have been approved in time.

@missionarygirl22 Be careful what you disclose to your workplace as the birthdate if the C-section date is 4 weeks or more before the due date. I ran into trouble there by being honest. My former workplace refused to let me go on disability two days before my planned C-section (high risk...

@dvz For sure, your calculations would be different from mine. I mean, there are lots of reasons we don't do things just because we can, but if you can and you want to, that's different. I think you're trying to critically examine the "want" because at some point in the recent past, you also...

@dvz Absolutely, I know what you mean. I really wanted a sibling when I was a kid, especially when my family had some dysfunctional dynamic that I had to deal with all by myself. But when I got older, I started to recognize all the opportunities that I almost certainly wouldn't have had if I...

@dvz I understand what you mean, I really do. My husband and I are both only children, so we will have to handle end of life care, death, and funeral arrangements for 4 parents between us. But here's the thing: you define what "it" is for you, and your child will define what "it" is for...

@raymondven I've always found it to be so insulting, like, "What if you're so desperate to be accepted by someone that you throw away your deeply held belief?" No one walks around baptisms going, "Don't join this religion! What if you meet someone?"

@truckeo7m My 4.5 month old preemie is now at 50th percentile by birth age and doesn't need NeoSure anymore. He's bottle fed 80/20 breastmilk/formula. But we still have several cans thanks to the Similac checks and he seems to like it, so we just keep using it at 22 cals/oz. It seems fine. He...

@heidisolonely It's very low risk in countries with strict regulations for baby formula production and distribution, and for babies with healthy immune systems. My LO is actually a 33+6 preemie. His NICU team and pediatrician all said that powder formula and cold water are fine. His NICU team...

@heidisolonely I recommend talking to your child's pediatrician for advice tailored to local water quality and your child's health. Remember that governmental recommendations err on the safe side because they have to be applicable to most people in the country/world, but may be unnecessarily...