Since Everyone Else Is Doin It
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Hi all. My name is Kasey I'm 20 and engaged to Nick for about 4 years now. We have a beautiful baby girl Lila. Who is 13 months today! She is such a little tazmanian devil lol. She was a preemie and hasn't started to walk exclusively yet but she still manages to explore and squeeze her little self into everything. As of now she is 17lbs and 10oz 29 1/4"in long. We have had a really rough year. Nick was on drugs and went to jail, while I struggled to care for Lila. Luckily he has changed drastically. He is in a drug recovery program and started going to school for Massage Therapy with the hopes of eventually becoming a Physical Therapist. He is doing great and I am so proud of him. Not to mention he and Lila are joined at the hip. He is so happy to be her and its amazing to see what a daddy's girl she is. As for me I am still in school and will be attending the police academy in September (hopefully, the waiting list was freaking long) I 'd really love to have another baby soon, so we will see how things go. I miscarried twice this year so I think I'm going to wait and see what god has planned for me! If you made it this far you deserve a hug lol
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Aw, that's great. I'm glad Nick is doing better. It's good that she has a father figure in her life, along with such a loving mother like yourself :) Good luck with your schooling!
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Aww you're too sweet! How is the baby? Are you adjusting to everything ok?
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Everything is great! Other than the whole being extremely exhausted thing haha. It's all worth it though. I've scheduled an appointment to see a lactation specialist, she gets really fussy when she gets and burping isn't doing much. It's been suggested that she might have reflux, but I hope not! I had a meeting with a nurse the other day to check her development, and she was commenting on how great I was handling everything. I guess she wasn't expecting it from a teen mom but I showed her :P You said Lila was a premie? How early was she?
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I went into labor a day before I turned 36weeks, I was 35 weeks 6 days then I had her at exactly 36 weeks. She was a healthy 6lbs 2oz 19.5 inches long. I had gestational diabetes to so I'm sure that helped her be so big. She never took to the b___b though, and my milk never came in :(
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She's pretty close to my daughter. I had her at 37 weeks and 3 days, she was 6 pounds 4 ounces, 18.5 inches. She also had b___b problems... she couldn't latch. I saw a lactation specialist who gave me a nipple shield, so I've been b___st feeding for 7 and a half weeks now with no problems. Yesterday she even took the b___st without the shield. I was thrilled. What was her problem with b___st feeding?
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I'm not sure what her deal was. I actually think it was because my milk never came in. My entire pregnancy I leaked constantly and then i had her and I was dry. I think the most I ever got out was 2oz. I was so devastated it actually caused some mild postpartum depression. But I'm hoping with my next one I will get the chance to try harder.
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Did she latch well though? It seems weird that you would dry up all of the sudden. I'm sorry you had to go through that, I was very upset when Ellie was having trouble too. I remember a few days before going into labor my grandma was telling me about how she couldn't b___st feed her first child because she had inverted nipples and she was depressed about it. I rolled my eyes at her wondering why she would be upset about that, but then the same thing happened to me. I apologized to her. I guess it's just hard to understand something like that until you experience it for yourself. I really hope the next time will be different for you.
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