once solids and such get introduced, they reek. I still remember the stench 10 years ago when D1 was stopped up with cheese, got a nice fermentation going, and filled her drawers. It was like an explosion in a French cheese factory.

AF_mom is pretty good at discretely feeding, but her kid is 18+ months, and she's a B cup. The kids head is bigger than her boob.

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it's the rabid nutters that want open breasts everywhere.. Really, not necessary.. Can pump and plan ahead of time for dang near everything. If you're gonna be out for 6-8 hrs with the kid, buy the car plug for the pump.. Though I'd question why one would be out for 6-8 hours with the kid in the first place.. Hospital group said to have a blanket and make a little tent over kid/boob and have at it, if it's your thing..

Everything's gonna change once the baby.. uh.. wait.. uh... nevermind.

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Don't tell clock, but:
Wait until you have sex. Then they squirt. It can be rather, hmmm, disconcerting, for a guy, to get squirted by the boobs while having sex. If he isn't expecting it. (Which is why I said not to tell clock.)

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I'm sorry, what were we talking about again?

You looked pretty good in the pictures for a woman who was just pregnant. Only 25 more pounds to go!

Also, if you don't want to nurse in public, why get a breast pump? They're not fun*, but if you really are lactating that much it should be easy to get up a good store of milk. I think you can store it in the fridge for like 4 days or something before it goes bad.

Also, after the milk goes away and the hot flashes are gone, the poops will still be there, and sooner or later you're going to get one of those days where you're changing his diarrhea-stained diaper just a few minutes too early, and you're going to get showered in smelly poo.

It does get better, though.

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We thought the same thing. If you recall from the baby shower, my mom gave me a bucket, shovel, plastic clothes, noseplugs, etc. After the baby was born, the worst thing we had to deal with of poop is that she gets it all over herself inside of her diaper.

Last week we introduced solid foods to her. Holy fuck does that shit stink now. Oh my fucking Jesus Fucking H Christ. It's pretty bad.

As far as dogshit is concerned, it's not anywhere close in terms of smell unless you feed your dog table scraps often.
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Pending on what you are wearing, this can be made more difficult; one thing that I have come across and would have tried is:

http://boobdesign.com/

look at the design of those tops; without having to bare the belly; they look really sweet.

I had leakage problems as well, so I always had to have pads, but still, even if you have to fiddle a little bit, you aren't exposing that much skin while you do so.

Perhaps a bit TMI...

After 9 months, my wife is torn; she wants to be done breast feeding, and at the same time she finds herself getting a little frustrated when she doesn't nurse the kid. Public feedings aren't an issue... she's in your league for equipment but Seattle's very laid back. As long as she isn't stripping to take care of it, it's never been an issue.

The mystical time when the number of feedings drops... forget it. Sure, it tapers off a bit, but it never just "drops". One day you'll look back and realize that you're nursing half as often... which is still 4-5 times per day and a couple at night, and it'll stay that way for as long as you breast feed. Which should be at least a year.

Try La Leche League. Good information, lots of helpful advice and support, and a city the size of Houston... well, you should have no trouble finding a group you can get along with. Houston meetings

Some of the basics... pumping is fine if that's what you need to do to be comfortable. Do not store it up. It doesn't freeze worth a damn, and refrigeration doesn't work well either. Try tasting it and see; fresh from the boob, it's sweet, by the next day - even refrigerated - it tastes completely different. So if you pump, do it as a "we're going out and I don't want to nurse" or "I'm going to be away from the baby all day". And it's very important to nurse, really nurse, at least once per day. Bonding, yes, but also because breast milk changes in response to your baby's health and nutritional needs; the last study I read claimed it was due to saliva entering the breast from the baby, not sure if I believe it or not, though I don't have a better explanation. Regardless, the changes in breast milk have been measured and are definitely individual to the mother and baby, so some sort of two-way communication is taking place between boob and baby.

As for sex, yes, breast milk is going to be a part of it unless clock doesn't touch your boobs AND you don't move a muscle. Since clock doesn't seem to be into necrophilia and seems appreciative of your eponymous body parts, best you accept it now. You don't need to make it explicitly part of your sex life or anything, but there will be milk at playtime.

I still remember that from when SB was a baby - the way they look around and everything is just fascinating and brilliant. It must be great to view the world like that.

I think the Lemonheads wrote a song about it.

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