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WFMW: Breastfeeding tips

I nursed Kate for 15 months, so when Sam was born I felt like I at least knew a little bit about what I was doing… but of course, since he was a different baby, he presented different challenges. I thought I would share a couple of things that worked for me this time around.

When Sam was really tiny, we had trouble with a shallow latch. He just wasn’t getting on there enough, and that lead to all kinds of fun problems like plugged ducts and mastitis, and contributed to his frequent nursing (more on that later). Anyway, of course I Googled it, and found something called a “deep latch technique.” This method helped a lot and I would highly recommend it.

And back to the frequent nursing thing…. Sam nursed all.the.time. Like non-stop. So once again I googled it, and found out about block feeding. Block feeding is basically nursing from one side for 2-4 hours at a time, so the baby gets the more fatty, more filling hind milk. This really helped us and Sam would sleep for longer periods of time after he filled up.

Nothing ground breaking, I know, but these two tips really helped our nursing relationship, and anything that makes breastfeeding easier works for me!

What breastfeeding tips do you have to share??

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A slightly traumatic morning

For me, anyway. The kids were fine.

Andy’s back to school this morning, so this was the first time I dropped the kids off at the sitter’s.

Fortunately, we all got a great night of sleep last night. Oh wait a minute, we were up the whole freaking night! Ugh. Sam is still waking up every hour or so, and last night he decided that he’d stop being so easy to get back to sleep, too, and would pop his eyes open every time we had the audacity to lay him down. (Someone help me, please!)

Then the morning got off to an awesome start – we overslept. For an hour. Yeah. Then we had to wake up both the kids, as they were still snoozing when it was time to run out the door. Oh, the irony.

On the way to the sitter’s, I said, “Kate, I’m going to miss you today.” She responded, “I’m going to miss you more, Mommy, but at least I’ll have my Sammers!” Warmed my heart.

Everything went fine when we got there – I drug in 1,000 pounds of baby crap (I had forgotten how much fun that was – now I just drop Kate off with the clothes on her back, but unfortunately Sammy requires a little more stuff), gave the sitter the run-down of Sammy-care, and watched Sam smile as I walked out the door. Thank God he has not yet hit the separation anxiety stage. I don’t think I could have handled it. It was much more difficult for me than it was for either of the kids.

We love the kids’ sitter. This is Kate’s fourth school year there, and I know Sam will thrive there the same way Kate has. Intellectually, I know he will be fine. More than fine. Emotionally, though, I am sad.

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CVS Deals Matched with Competitor Coupons, August 24-30

Most CVS stores in my area of Dayton, OH take competitor’s coupons. This varies by store so make sure and ask your store manager before you march into CVS with a fistful of competitor’s q’s!

This week there are some great deals at CVS overall, and thankfully there are a few competitor’s coupons that match up to sweeten them!

Buy Kotex pantiliners at $1.49, get 1.49 ECB back
There are $1 off coupons for these in the Walgreens EasySaver Catalog, but they appear to be for the smaller packages. So you will have to ask if your store will take that one. If so, that’s a great deal, as there are manufacturer’s q’s out for these as well, plus a printable here! In either case, it’s free plus overage after ECB and coupon!

Buy four 12-packs of Pepsi products at $12, get 3 ECB.
CVS just can’t seem to stop enabling my Mountain Dew addiction!! This deal is for all Pepsi Products, but there are $1/1 coupons for regular or Diet Mountain Dew on the Target coupon printable site here. Also, both Rite Aid and Walgreens have a 5/$11 Pepsi product coupon in their ads today. This would require quite a bit of price adjustment on the cashier’s part, because the 5th 12-pack will ring up at regular price (you can only get 4 at the $3 price) but it is worth a try! Also, if you are in the Dayton area, Cub Foods and Dot’s Market both had this coupon in their ad today too – and it is a manufacturer’s coupon, so it should be used just like any normal coupon.

***Ok, this is not a competitor q deal, but if you are doing to do the Pepsi deal, make sure and buy 5 Sobe waters (5/$5) also, and use this printable q for a free Sobe water when you buy a Pepsi 12-pack. You can print two per computer. If you buy 5 Sobes, you’ll get 2 ECB back as well as your 3 ECB for the Pepsi!***

Schick Intuition refill cartridges at $9.99, get 5 ECB
There is a $2 off q for the razor in the Walgreens ES catalog. You’ll have to ask at your CVS if they will take it for the cartrdiges, but if they will, this is a great deal!

Kotex pads or tampons 2/$9
There are $1.50/1 coupons for these in the Walgreens ES catalog. This combined with the $1 off manu q’s mentioned above would give you 2/$4 which is a great deal! (Not an ECB deal though.)

Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, 2/$3
There are 50-cent off q’s for this on the Target printable site mentioned above. So if you didn’t get these on sale at Target last week, here’s your chance to get them for $1 each!

That is all I see for now…if you see anything else, leave a comment! Have a great week CVSing!

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