Hey Ladies,
Ive been following along on my phone via email updates.
Dandi- Nash is SO scrumptious! You're doing A GREAT job with him. Please don't feel guilty that you can't give him 100% breastmilk. I know a lot of mamas who got a late start in breastfeeding and also had difficulty. Formula has its purpose. When Mo was first born he lost so much of his bodyweight because my milk didn't come in for 5 days. The pediatrician told me to give him 1 bottle of formula per day for 3 days and then nurse on demand. It worked, but even exclusively breastfeeding is HARD in the beginning because the baby will cluster feed in order to get mom's body to produce enough milk. It darn near killed me. Mo is 12.5 months old now and I still breastfeed-he had some cow's milk the other day and did great on it. I'm relieved that he can now get hydrated from other sources and give me a break!
Sugar: I pump in a closet at work
It's actually not horrible because I'm just happy to have some alone time and luckily I only have to pump once per day (at lunch) because Mo is older now. Your daughter is so beautiful.
Wish: I'm so proud of you for continuing to forge ahead with donor eggs. I gotta be honest- before I had Mo I said I would never want to adopt because I believed I wouldn't be able to form a bond with a child who wasn't genetically related to me. Now that I'm 12.5 months into being a mother I realize it's caring for and nurturing a child that creates the bond, nothing else. Mo doesn't look like me or my husband as infants. For me there was also a strange disconnect between carrying him in utero and then holding him in my arms after giving birth. He also looks nothing like he did when he was born. These babies change so much and so quickly in the first couple of years. They have their own unique personalities which are sometimes nothing like that of their parents.
Ellie: I read your post on sex with DH. Sex has barely returned to our relationship, 12.5 months post pregnancy!!!! It was painful for me for the first 6 months and now we're just too exhausted. We're planning our first 3 day getaway in October so I'm excited for that alone time.
Left: How is my favorite Irishwoman?!?! You daughter is so beautiful. I absolutely love her hair color. My great grandmother was a redhead!!!
Question for you: Are you still nursing her? I know you breastfed your son for a long time. Did he wean himself? Mo nurses a lot at night and he's still in bed with us.
Star: So happy for you. You're nearly finished. Love the scan of your daughter!
Hi heidipie!! Can't believe our kids are over 1 year now! Mo is still waking up at night too, but he's in our bed so I mostly sleep through it. I can unlatch my nursing bra during the night and not even remember doing it the next morning.
MDC: woo hoo on 7 frosties!!!! you will be pregnant soon.
As for us in sunny SoCal-
Mo turned 12 months old a couple of weeks ago!!! I look at his chubby baby pictures and the only thing I really miss is how much easier it was to carry him. He's wiggly and weighs 23 lbs now. The infant stage was really challenging with his 6 naps per day, constant nursing and frequent night wakings. He's crawling around and has got a great sense of humor. I work 2-3 days per week and it's the perfect amount of time for me to be away from him. We had a nanny come to the house for a couple of months but it was expensive and Mo got bored at home. We started him in daycare last week and he absolutely LOVES it. He squeals when we get into the parking lot in the morning and cries when we have to go home at the end of the day. Would love to give Mo a sibling in a year or two so we're going to wing it and see what happens. I'm still breastfeeding a lot so my period hasn't started. He brings us such joy which makes the difficult times with him much more bearable.
I'll attach some pics of our little man in the next post!
Thanks for the preggo cheering. Now I just need pgs to come back awesome and work on my damn lining. 
You are doing an amazing job raising your little boy. 
