Jules and June

I absolutely love these bottles. She took to them immediately. She started using them at about month old. They are honestly quite heavy but I don't mind because I wanted something that wasn't plastic and that would work while I was still breastfeeding. The nipples are said to have a close flow to the way breastfeeding feels for baby.  I can also vouch for their durability because I've dropped two of them. Both times the bottles were fine I checked them for cracks or fractures, but they were still solid. I do want to say I dropped them on carpet, so I can't say they would survive if you hit tile, but there is always a chance. I recommend the starter kit which comes with three 4oz bottles and two 8oz bottles. It also comes with a set of Avent Soothies Pacifiers, which I also would recommend. The only problem I had was the lids. Sometimes if you aren't careful when putting on the lid, the threads won't connect properly. Then you shake the bottle, and suddenly you...

I guess the best way to talk about the birth, is to first tell you what I wanted out of my birth experience. I really wanted a non-medicated, little to no intervention, natural birth. To me this meant I wore my own clothes, listened to my music, was mobile the whole time, I wanted to do hydrotherapy, and most importantly I wanted to do it with no medication, and no unnecessary interventions. I wanted immediate contact, belly to breast. I wanted her to only be taken once we'd had a chance to bond. I specifically switched practices mid pregnancy to have a team who could understand these wants.  So on November 11th we're in the hospitals birthing center. I find out I'm having contractions about 3 mins apart. So they have me strapped to a baby monitor, and a contraction monitor. They just need 15 minutes of uninterrupted monitoring of the baby before I can do intermittent monitoring. I'm stuck in bed already. Oh and baby keeps moving so hard she's knocking off the monit...

Boy let me just tell you nothing, and I mean nothing can actually prepare you for being pregnant. Every pregnancy is so different that even reading tons of books and hearing all those personal stories, you'll still have an experience that is all your own! My experience for my first trimester was this: From the moment I thought I might be pregnant I had to pee constantly, and while they say that subsides with the 2nd trimester, that didn't happen for me. My little peanut was as low as she could get in my pelvis from the get go. At my 10 week appointment they couldn't find her heartbeat so we had to get an ultrasound all because she was hiding behind my pelvic bone. Oh and the nausea was no joke. I highly recommend pregnancy pops, they are basically this little candy that helps tremendously. I legit had my head in a trash can every chance I got. I was also napping daily and sleeping tons at night. The second trimester brought on cravings for hamburgers, and lots of back aches...

Where to even start, well I guess some background is important. I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was just 18. To me it felt like I'd been handed a death sentence. The idea that I would never be able to have a baby was too much for me to handle. My whole world revolved around the knowledge that one day I'd be able to be a Mom. Luckily not every person with PCOS has every symptom. Yeah I have the irregular periods which made tracking my ovulation super hard, and I have the weight problems but as far as most people I have it pretty mild.     So knowing that this might be an adventure and knowing it could take years to get pregnant, My husband and I  started trying to conceive in April of 2020. After lots of negative tests and tons of tears I finally got my positive. It was February 15, 2021  and I woke up ready to pee and see another negative but I was also feeling super hopeful this time. I watched as the blue plus appeared, it was super faint, but it was there! I...