Jump to content

Menu

busymama7

Members
  • Posts

    3,040
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Everything posted by busymama7

  1. It's too late for this baby but if you want another baby to be willing to switch back and forth easily then a bottle needs to be given once a day from very early on, like 2 weeks. That was too much hassle for me personally so I just took baby everywhere with me. Lots of other good suggestions here. He may adapt but it is definitely harder at this age.
  2. I have had 4 kids get married in the last 5 years (they were born in 5 years too 🤣) and none of them gave favors. It wasn't even on our minds. I don't think anyone missed them. We did have photo booths at some(all?) and I think a way to share them. I do like that idea a lot and if someone has a nice printer it wouldn't be that expensive or just send the digital file to them. Nice background and a pro photographer would be awesome. This isn't relevant but the most used favor we ever received was a mix CD. It had a picture of the couple printed on the front and a variety of great songs. We played that thing in the car for years. But alas that is outdated 🤣
  3. I have heard that and experimenting is probably ok but I think you can know for sure by running your genes.
  4. My Dr wants me in an optimal range which is much higher than the lab ranges. I couldn't get mine there until I started taking menthocolobalimin. Spelling is probably way off. But anyways in 6 weeks my numbers quadrupled after 8+ years of being unable to raise them. He had just recently learned about a gene mutation that caused a difficulty in processing B12 from food or supplements. Similar to MTHFR. After my numbers rose so quickly with the change we tested my genes just for confirmation and I did have the mutation. It is probably the root cause of my hypothyroidism. And getting my daughter on the correct form healed her chronic cankor sores that had been raging for 6+ years by that point. I had tried everything, many many doctors and dentists and all the things and we could not get her to stop breaking out in them. She would have 8-10 at a time and her mouth would swell to the point that you could tell from across the room that she had them. It was horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Pretty much the worst thing I had been through with any of my 9 kids medically. (I know there is much worse out there, we have been blessed for sure but it was so hard). Anyways she is totally free of them now as long as she takes her B12. Again, correct form.
  5. Maybe there is someone local who could let you see those in action? I would hate to steer you wrong.
  6. I posted before I read the replies. I don't leave mine out on the counter so that's not an issue. It's really light so it's not a big deal to move it in and out of the lower drawers. I also don't find it noisy. It doesn't even approach a blender or a food processor in my opinion. I have struggled with it walking off the counter although since I posted about about that problem and getting a mixer cabinet when we remodel the kitchen it really hasn't been doing it so I don't know what the difference is.
  7. Bosch all the way if you are going to be consistent with bread. For occasional small batches some of the kitchen aids (stronger motor) can be ok, I've heard. I have had my Bosch for 22 years and have made countless batches of 4-5 loaves of bread for my large family and I even sold loaves for awhile and it's still going strong. Nothing else compares for this purpose. Now, I also want a kitchen aid for things like cookies, cakes and whipped cream. I don't find the Bosch convenient for those kinds of things.
  8. No kidding! My son (was probably 14/15) walked up to some kids at a high school football game who were messing with one and said if you give me a dollar I will solve that for you. They didn't believe he could do it but not only followed through with the dollar but took him around to several other groups who also paid to see him solve it 🤣.
  9. I haven't either had room for both but with the remodel I think I will so I'm excited.
  10. Yeah.... That's what I'm worried about. Maybe I just just scrap the whole idea.
  11. Really?!?! Huh. I don't remember always having to do this but it did walk off the counter once about 5 years ago and broke the bowl. I had to get a replacement. So I'm super paranoid now. There is no longer a repair shop in my town but I can take it somewhere when you go to see my kids.
  12. That's exactly my experience. Great for bread and wouldn't change it but everything else is currently done with a hand mixer and I would like the kitchen aid for that.
  13. Oh no not replace. In addition to. I don't use the Bosch for things like cookies or whipped cream or cakes. It's too large and bulky. I want a kitchen aid for what I currently use a hand mixer for. But bread would still be in the Bosch for sure. I've had it 22 years at this point. It's a workhorse!
  14. I have to stand there and hold it the whole time.
  15. So I don't have a kitchen aid but I want one so first thought of doing two but now that I've seen the layout the designer came up with I know I only want one. So if I went ahead and put it in and it didn't make sense for the Bosch I could get a kitchen aid and use it for that. I've never wanted both because of space but now with more availability I think I do.
  16. Well that's an interesting consideration 😜. Mostly I think I saw them and was like hey I want one. And now I'm debating if it's practical. But also in my current arrangement I don't have a lot of counter space and so I was thinking it would be nice but the new kitchen actually will have a lot. Oh also where I have it stored now is such a hassle to get it out and put it back. But that may already be improved with the new set up too. Hmmm.
  17. So the Bosch is definitely lighter. But it just moves SO much when kneading bread. I just don't know if it will work.
  18. I am getting a new kitchen and there are so many details to figure out. I am hoping for a lift up mixer shelf/cupboard but they are designed more for kitchen aids and I have a Bosch like this. I may actually also get a kitchen aid but for now I use the Bosch a lot for bread etc. Does anyone know if it will work? It's walks a lot but the designer suggested they build a lip around it.
  19. I have heard people say that this information did not work for them but it worked shockingly well for me. I never was diagnosed with HG but did vomit usually 6-8 times a day for my first 4 girl pregnancies and then my last boy (of 5). Definitely thought he was a girl until the last few weeks when I had to get an us for an unrelated reason and found out it was actually a boy 🤣. My last pregnancy of 10 was a girl and I sailed right through it with no vomiting and only some nausea. The simple carb solution everyone says was making mine worse, not better. YMMV https://stevenandersonfamily.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-cause-and-cure-of-morning-sickness.html?m=1 For clarity this is my pregnancy history B- sick but not severe G- very severe B- sick but not severe B- same G- very severe G- every severe B- sick but not severe G- very severe B- very severe Read this blog and applied the knowledge especially eliminating simple carbs and sugar and adding in ferments. G- finally an easy pregnancy
  20. For sure. It's awful for me. I do use it occasionally but I'm aware of the risk. I wish I had figured out sooner that this is what was happening. She is bouncing off walls today!
  21. Thanks for the tips. I am hoping this isn't a long term thing but just a consequence of the stomach flu+ zofran.
  22. I tried but she wouldn't drink it. I watered it down and she had a couple sips but she thought it was the grossest thing she had ever tasted 🤣. I mixed some powder up the Dr prescribed (I think miralax brand name) and she drank some of that last night and had a large movement. She's still in some pain this morning so working on it still.
  23. Another urgent care visit and another Dr saying it absolutely isn't appendicitis. X-ray showed constipation and gas probably brought on by the stomach flu over the weekend. New treatment plan but child is not the most cooperative 🤪
  24. I get it but I have been in and they said her appendix was fine. Yes I'm still concerned because she did say she was trying not to cry but I also think if it has been as extreme as they were looking for she wouldn't have been able to hide it.
  25. If it was that easy, sure but I've already been there this week and they wouldn't give her any because she was keeping fluids down. She is better hydrated now than then so I'm not sure I could get it even if we went in. I could get someone privately to come give her some but again she's drinking and keeping it down. And someone asked about electrolytes, yes she's getting them. She's doing better this afternoon. Eating a bit. Talking instead of eyes closed and whimpering.
×
×
  • Create New...