If you hadn't had kids...
Find a Conversation
If you hadn't had kids...
| Thu, 05-20-2004 - 10:34pm |
And your dh made enough $$ to support both of you comfortably, do you think you would be working?
| Thu, 05-20-2004 - 10:34pm |
Pages
Is the concept of a sahw or a woman who wants to be a sahw just out of the realm for you to understand?
ITA. It wasn't the "I don't want to ... I don't like to." of FSW and LTB's posts that surprised me. It was the "I don't know anyone who does." What? That shocked me.
It was further shocking, and also mildly disturbing, to see the blindness on the part of FSW to the
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
We did give it great thought as to how we wanted our lives to be, we planned.
School, church, yes. I was thinking (as I've stated) more on the lines above in roles.
I'm not blind to volunteering around me. As explained above. I also did not say that they have no effect on my life. I said, volunteers were there, although I did not SEE them when I was in the hospital. I'm sure if I go in the library and pull a book from the shelf I may have utilized the help of a volunteer. I said that.
I don't think of volutneering as bad & sorry you got that impression which is wrong. I highly respect those who do volunteer. It is not something that is right for me.
Good for you!!! That is excellent.
"I WOH 3 days a week until she was 18 months old and BF's her without the use of bottles. She did, however, take sippy cups of EBM at meals while I was working. While I was working & pumping, I nursed her an average of 4-6 times a day on work days and 5-7 times a day on home days & was able to pump out over 5,000 oz of BM. Even after I decided to SAH, she still drank frozen EBM until she was 2 years old. I ran out of frozen EBM about 4 days after her second b-day"
So basically you used a *sippy cup* instead of a *bottle*. BTW, is there really that much of a difference? The point I'm trying to make here, is that expressed bm that is frozen and thawed loses some of it's valuable nutrients in the process. In other words, bm from the actual source: no pumping, no expressing, no freezing, no thawing is BEST. And for the most part, SAH is more advantageous than WOH when it comes to bfing on demand from the actual source: no bottles, no sippy cups, no pumping, no expressing, no freezing, no thawing, etc.
"Even after I decided to SAH, she still drank frozen EBM until she was 2 years old.
WHy??? Btw, how many months/years can you actually save frozen bm?
"And, yes....I have other children. When Evie was born, I also had a 14 month old & a 28 month old. Most women would have thrown in the nursing towel right off the bat....Evie was 8 weeks early and our nursing relationship got off to a rocky start. Having two additional toddlers in the house further complicated the situation, but as I proved, it CAN be done all while WOH."
So how long did you bf your other two children? BTW, I think you are the second person who has shared the bfing experience of only *one*, rather than *all* of their children. Why is that? What about the others bfing experiences? Do tell.
Pages