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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/8/2009 5:55:28 PM
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artemis
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Amy, can you get WIC? If you qualify, they will cover at least most of your formula costs when he starts drinking more.
Nah, I'm just a cheapskate  I'd complain about the cost even if I made a million dollars a month  Of course, when we lived in a small town, our income was such that we would have qualified for WIC if we had kids, but the cost of living was so much lower there, that we wouldn't have needed it. Now I make a lot more, but the cost of living here is a lot higher, too. We definitely don't qualify for WIC and if my husband were the one working, I think we'd be doing pretty well on this salary. With him the one staying home and me the one working, we somehow seem to spend more money than we would if I were the one staying home  Ah, well... it's good practice for living on one income even after my husband finds a job 
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/20/2009 3:17:47 PM
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Some of you may remember that I had to start giving Isaac one or two bottles of forumla while I am at work because I cant pump enough. The milk is there but I just cant get it out. We nurse exclusively at home on the weekends and in the evenings just fine. Adding in many more pumpings is near impossible if I want to get any work done or spend anytime with Isaac. We have been doing this for about a month, well this week he's started refusing it. Or taking just a little with obvious distaste. What do I do?
Just to clarify - is it your milk he's refusing or the formula?
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/20/2009 4:19:25 PM
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manda59
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ETA...I just spoke with MIL (my mom had him yesterday and today when he started refusing it) and she has been using distilled water and I've been using tap water so maybe thats the issue.
I thought distilled water wasn't sterile? Also that its minerals have been removed? It wouldn't have been my first choice for mixiing formula.
Is there any particular reason why she isn't using boiled tap water?
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/20/2009 4:27:30 PM
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distilled has a different taste for sure, can you get some to try and see if thats the problem?
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/20/2009 4:28:32 PM
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manda59
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So Isaac was taking formula fine before when it was made from tap water?
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/21/2009 1:17:23 AM
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Do you think it has anything to do with who is giving him the bottle? It seems like he's maybe being pickier about the formula, but I know Lydia can be sensitive to who feeds her. There is one daycare teacher who she will drink 6 oz. from, and another one that she has never, ever taken more than 3 oz. from. Maybe since he's not with your mom as much he just doesn't want to eat as well from her?
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/23/2009 1:03:44 PM
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ETA...I just spoke with MIL (my mom had him yesterday and today when he started refusing it) and she has been using distilled water and I've been using tap water so maybe thats the issue.
I thought distilled water wasn't sterile? Also that its minerals have been removed? It wouldn't have been my first choice for mixiing formula.
Is there any particular reason why she isn't using boiled tap water?
I don't know anyone who uses boiled tap water, the formula cans recommend using distilled water. I think most of it is steam distilled. We used water from my IL's reverse osmosis system when Gabby was little, then switched to tap. The only time we used distilled was with my parents well water.
Erin, it really could just be that he prefers the bottle from your MIL over your mom.
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/23/2009 1:29:26 PM
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I don't know anyone who uses boiled tap water, the formula cans recommend using distilled water.
Not in the UK they don't.
This must be an American thing.
Why not use tap water? is it not good quality? (I remember it was atrocious in Texas when I was there, but I haven't been anywhere else in the USA so I don't know)
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/23/2009 1:31:40 PM
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I think most people with city water(where the minerals and everything else is regulated) DO use tap water. I hesitated to use the well water because it was different then what Gabby was used to and the mineral content is VERY different. My system gets upset from changes in well water, so I didn't want to mess with her even more sensitive system.
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/23/2009 1:33:07 PM
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I think most people with city water(where the minerals and everything else is regulated) DO use tap water. I hesitated to use the well water because it was different then what Gabby was used to and the mineral content is VERY different. My system gets upset from changes in well water, so I didn't want to mess with her even more sensitive system.
"Well water"? wow! lol We don't have much of that over here.
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RE: When breast WASN'T best - 3/23/2009 1:41:19 PM
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I think most people with city water(where the minerals and everything else is regulated) DO use tap water. I hesitated to use the well water because it was different then what Gabby was used to and the mineral content is VERY different. My system gets upset from changes in well water, so I didn't want to mess with her even more sensitive system.
"Well water"? wow! lol We don't have much of that over here.
We have a lot of it in rural areas. My parents still live in the town where I grew up. The house I grew up in was on city water, but if you drove 10 minutes in any direction the city water lines ended and people have wells. Where my parents live there aren't even lines on the road and you can't get cable TV or anything but dial up(or the ever expensive satellite) internet.
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