Chi the boys would do that too... The second I was out of the hospital with Sean I stopped giving him formula though I still gave him a bottle with breast milk for a little while cause I would pump to try to numb my nipples to the pain he would cause me. Eventually I switched over completely and just nursed which made going back to school a SERIOUS chore because he then refused a bottle which was harder then ever trying to get him to take my nipple. A baby naturally likes breastmilk better then formula... Formula is GROSS... It smells gross and tastes gross..

Michael was given a bottle by my mom she suggested I do it to avoid him refusing it later when I started college... and I'd have to say despite the evil nipple confusion that was/ is the best plan for my family... I don't deal well with all the responsibility being on me. Hence why my husband is on potty training and diaper duties when he is home... It may change a little with this one since Sean has been so stubborn about potty training. We may have to just split duties at that time... But anyhow Dillon likes to feed the babies and it is almost a reward for him to get to give them a bottle.

I'm glad Terra's confusion was short lived. She has a couple bottles a day with no problems. We've used both Nuk and Breastflow brand, but now we stick with the latter. I wish I could have pumped. Er, I mean, I did pump. I just had no output. :XD Half an ounce to an ounce after pumping for half an hour. That type of deal.

With nursing and college, I lucked out. My husband always tags along so that when she wants to nurse she can. I just leave either on the breaks they give or when she's inconsolable. I don't think it would have been a similar situation in undergrad, though. I'm grateful for how things have gone thus far. :3

I was struggling to get my associates with both of them :/ I started when Michael was 3 months and graduated just after Sean turned a year. I struggled a lot... I've wanted to attempt my BA but I've failed to get enough time. Which is probably for the best since I really don't want to be a teacher. But at the same time I feel like I don't have a chance if I don't get more then my darn associates... 1/2-1 oz is all a baby needs at first... Though I make the opposite I can make a 6 oz bottle starting off engorgement is fun NOT. Then I go to 1/2 oz-2oz per 30 minute session...

I get 1/2-1oz regardless of when and how often. It frustrated me, but since when she nurses I can hear her swallowing, I figured... eh, it is what it is.

I couldn't have balanced a baby and undergrad. I have days where I struggle now, but class usually meets just twice a week. Except summer. Summer is going to be crazy..

Two balance two and get your associates is a big deal. I couldn't do it with two. ;_;

Babies are better at getting milk then pumps I bet you made so much more!

I think if I didn't have another one on the way it would have been easier for me to attempt my bachelors again I've debated on social work since it is close to the job I want. But really all I need is to take some classes...

She gets a bit from me. Goat's Rue helped a bit. If I had to wager a guess, I'd say it's half and half. With her eating some solids here or there, probably even more from me now. :) Most days she has 12-16oz of formula, so.. depends!

There is still time for classes. Are you stopping at 3, or are you not sure just yet?

I don't know for certain what I'll do, but probably in-home therapy. I'd love to do office-based therapy but it depends on the market.

Do they offer online sessions? Though even online would be difficult. You can't grow extra hands or make the hours increase in a day.

I haven't decided if this is my last or not... And the classes I'd have to take to look good as a breastfeeding consultant would be in the state capital... As far as online classes go I botched my ability to take classes at the college I could do all online classes. And the one I'd have to take it at REQUIRES 50% of the classes be taken IN class which is a real bite in the arse. But in retrospect the online classes I HAD to take a full course load which was hard as well...

Phooey. :(

Still.. we're young. The sky is the limit. I look at Terra many days and think things like, "What the hell will I do with myself once she's out of the house?" Our only main "game plan" is to get her into the local Montessori school when we have to do our practicum. This is provided my husband gets into the nursing program on the first go. There's a wait list. My practicum is a certainty, but she'll be old enough anyway come then..

Jaz- I had a TON of energy with the twins. Most of it was sexual. xD I didn't get fatigued with them until near the end of the pregnancy. If that calms any of your nerves. But then, pregnancy normally screws with my hormones so it could just be me. lol. But I generally feel super sexy during pregnancy. Big belly and all. xD /TMI?

I think a water birth would be fun. I'd LOVE to have a home birth just because It's so much more comfortable to be in your house with out some crazy huge bright light shining where the sun generally doesn't shine. Man, that was uncomfortable with Owen. >.> Here are two guys who seem to have a fear of woman parts as any procedure other than the embryo transfer they stayed as far away as possible from only to have them BOOM right there with light shining for the birth. Scott said it was miraculous to watch but man, I felt really embarassed. Started thinking between pushes that I should have shaved. xD /more tmi.

I didn't get any of my babies right after birth. They were taken to the bassinet in room and their APGAR scores taken. Then given to me. Though the twins stayed with Scott since I was shaking really really bad. But I didn't have a problem getting any of them to latch. Kinda with Kura since she only wanted the tip of the nipple, but we figured that one out on our own. She got formula in the hospital when I didn't have milk for her, but I pumped a lot. 2 months of pumping I donated about 700 ounces of milk to the milk bank here...and a lot of what I pumped got dumped since I didn't have room in my freezer for it. O.o SO probably double what was there, and there were about 40 ounces they couldn't use becasue of the mastitis. Anyway, not having that initial time with them didn't seem to hurt us any. Would it have been nice? Yeah probably, but I don't think it hurt us in any way. I had tons of time with Kura after her birth to where she's a mini me now. Same with Melody and Aaron. They are me, just tiny. It's scary and wonderful at the same time. lol.

I experienced the euphoria after Kura and Owen were born. I didn't have it after the twins. After the twins was more terror and worry about my shaking than any other feeling. My blood pressure was high (to the point where the nurses wouldn't leave me alone because of my risk of I can't remember what.) But Owen was induced and Kura was natural and I had the same feeling with both of them. (: Some people just might not get that endorphin rush after birth. Our bodies all work differently.

RE Pain: I've had friends elect to have c-sections multiple times. And they say it gets easier (which is odd, I'd think it would get harder O.o) But they say that after the first they were able to get up and walk around after 24 hours. Which is better then the 3 days it took me to be able to stand...but nothing compared to the hour after natural birth. (I could have gotten up right away I think, but my doctor wouldn't let me. lol)

I got up right after birth... >.>;; With Sean... With Michael I was so exhausted I fell asleep with him nursing ><;;; lol.. They woke me yelled at me not to have him in the bed with me... That's another thing BASTARDS who are you to tell me O_O I slept with him in my arms from day one to 15ish months... ANYHOO... I was woke up about 2 hours later and told I HAD to go to the bathroom... O_o so I did VERY unsteadily. But with Sean I was moving around the room pretty fast!

I have a good amount of sexual energy but unless Dillon is expressing that kind of interest I don't press... But I don't have a lot of other energy... :( I also feel like I look TERRIBLE... And it doesn't help that my hair is really long so all I do with it is put it in a pony or a pony flip :/ cause otherwise it is in my WAY!!!

I lost drive during pregnancy. And now. ;_; I definitely had no and have no depression-ish issues and my pregnancy was awesome in terms of health and how I felt physically and emotionally. It's just that part that fell away. Hope it straightens out.

I go though spouts... Pregnancy increases my drive always has... well.... You know all 3 times lol.... When i am not pregnant there are times where I don't feel like sex for months :( Poor Dillon

I'm kinda always wanting sex. >.> It's worse when I'm pregnant. Scott loves it though, so no complaints from him. :lol: I've read that not having sex for a while will decrease your drive for it. So even if you don't want to physically but do emotionally you should do it, and it will make you want it more physically later on. It was something I'd experimented with before which ended in a UTI, so I'm pretty sure it was true. /shot.


My hair stays nice longer while pregnant, my face is perfectly clear, my eyes have no redness at all...I love being pregnant I just feel so pretty!

I got a haircut last Friday, today I got the highlights put in and I feel like a million bucks. Once I put the kids to bed I'll be doing make up finding something pretty to wear and waiting for my man. It's a good thing he's fixed, or I'd be pregnant with number 7 I'm sure. xD

There are times I just don't want it... And I'll do it just cause Dillon will hound me which usually means I am just resentful...

But it is getting hard with the kids.... I am not terribly fond of night nooky as I am of morning or daytime (mostly morning) sex... But now everytime we try the boys start walking towards our room WTH you were asleep ten seconds ago and I was NOT being loud.... >.>;;

Jazzy gets bad pimple face early on... I look like I just hit puberty... And my belly feels bigger then it really is... I've already had to stop laying on my stomach cause if feels like I am trying to drive something into my spine O_o My eyes are already pretty clear but my hair is hit or miss... But keeping it in a pony tail never makes me feel anything but frumpy

Not lying on my belly is one of my first signs of pregnancy. xD I just can't do it! Like from week 3 on...it's ridiculous.

Scotts always trying for morning sex and I'm like uuuuugh I'm asleep! lol

Yeah I had stopped quite a while before I found out... My first sign is breast sensitivity though lol...

I just had an internal sense of "I'm pregnant". That was shortly followed by, "Coffee is gross. Okay, I'm definitely pregnant. Or dying. One or the other."

Yeah I kind of get that too but the first real signs are breast sensitivity lack of ability to lay on my stomach... and this time pain in my stomach... I usually ask Dillon if I should take a test several weeks in advance lol.... Though I know they would show up negative... I KNEW I was pregnant with Sean and I kept getting false negatives so Dillon made me wait to get the next test. He was on his way back to college when I took it... And it finally showed up positive.... The doctor estimated he was only like 6 weeks when we came in the first time and it turned out he was 9 weeks.... Cause one or two weeks later they told me his ultrasound showed him to be about 11 weeks gestation... lol...

Chi- LOL! I love the new picture of Terra! Too cute!

My breasts never get sensitive. Probably a good thing too. Since my kids and I rough house randomly and my boobs are at high hitting level. xD My first sign is laying on my side with my leg bent/out to keep me from rolling over. It's the most comfortable pregnant position my body has found, and I seem to adjust to it automatically when pregnant. So after the transfer with Owen when I found myself sleeping on my stomach I started freaking out. lol.

That is exactly how I lay ROFL except lately I've been laying on my back because it is so sore but I do it consciously to stretch it out... Stupid super archy back... My breasts ALWAYS grow with Mikes from a high B low C to a double D with Sean from a C to a DD and I am already back to a DD again with this one from a C.... And the growing is what I think causes the pain... :/

Oddly my boobs didn't hurt when they grew. I went from a B to a high C with Kura, and a C to a D with the twins, and a C to a D with Owen. Yours seem to grow more than mine did though.

Yeah and they do so for no reason too... between 4 weeks postpartum to 3 months postpartum they go back to being C-D's rather then DD I think I stayed a D for 6 months with Sean... But I was back to C with Mikes in 4 weeks :/ It's like "Really did you have to show off that much?? Couldn't you have just stuck to the size you NEEDED to be?" They over compensate much... lol...

OMG I made lasagna a few days ago and some of it dripped over the side so when Dillon turned on the oven I can smell it burning BLECK....

I hate it when that happens. Mostly because I HATE cleaning the inside of the oven. xD

After I stop breastfeeding/pumping my boobs go back to their normal size. Which is both good and bad. Good because I don't have to buy new bras, but bad since all but two of my bras are demi, so they cut right on some of my ducts thus the mastitis last time. When I was breastfeeding my own I wouldn't bother wearing the demis since it was easier to move the full coverages out of the way. xD

I hate cleaning out the oven too.... I am going to seer if I can get Dillon to do it if we have enough time today....

Mine go back while breastfeeding.... I am not sure why but they do... What is weird is I didn't struggle with breastfeeding Michael and my breasts went back to C's but I did struggle with Sean and they stayed bigger longer? Not sure what that is about...

I had two dreams about having the baby last night... One was weird... I had two kids both boys like in real life and the second and third (who I was pregnant with in the dream) belonged to this guy they called sail boat.... cause he had a sail boat shaped zit on his forehead... gross... but I was some kind of 80's bad girl in the dream it was so weird.... anyhoo end of the dream was the baby's birth... It was a boy.... The other dream made more sense, I was in labor and I was picking up Dillon from work... Dillon was fighting with his manager for the FMLA forms and they were telling him they were going to deny him.... etc etc... But what was funny is I never met the baby the dream ended with me not being pregnant anymore and I was writing on GCS's windows saying "I was going to get pregnant every year so Dillon could get a vacation from their sorry excuse for a company..." I'm an angry person and I hold grudges for a very long time... Like I won't go to 7-11 for anything anymore cause of how they treated Dillon and I...

I don't go to 7-11 because they just plain suck. xD But I'll use their treatment of you and Dillon as an excuse too. ;D People need to learn that their employees and how they treat their employees reflect on the company. If their employees are rude, or they are rude to their employees they lose customers. Like Scott and I will never buy a Honda. When he was shopping for a car to trade in the truck for after I got pregnant with Kura and he gave them his financial information and told them he was already sworn into the Coast Guard and what not and so he had a steady job and showed them proof that he had been. So instead of being like yeah okay, they laughed at him and told him not a chance would they finance a car for him. So they went down to Toyota who was all too happy to let us get a car, and we've had the Corolla ever since. But psh. Honda can kiss my ass.