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"i know people will say it's my imagination, but at 3 weeks today, tinydespot made incredible, sustained eye contact with me this morning. followed my head when i moved and everything. i was entirely captivated."

"Hooray! Welcome little one!"

"Congratulations!"

"having done it for a whopping two weeks, i think i do have a little resentment about the breastfeeding. i just spend so much time in that damned chair, feeding him, and spousefriend is doing work (while *i* have work i need to do but somehow that…"

"Congratulations! I was given a nipple shield to use with Moose, though in my case it was more because that was quicker than actually taking time to help me latch him on right. That's probably part of why I was so angry about it. Like others…"

"Wooo hooooo!"

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

"Also, congratulations! Can't wait to see photos!"

"Word. "

"Congratulations! And I never used shields but I'm firmly in the "whatever gets you through" camp and the "stay off the internets -except Offsprung and a few other places not inhabited by scarefreakmoms" and also the…"

"Ahh, the Sploosh. The only thing that could ever be both adorably cute and utterly disgusting at the same time. But at least you know breastfeeding is working! Don't worry about what the books say. You do what you gotta do to survive.…"

"thanks for the words on the shields. we're still trying to figure ourselves out, but it's nice to hear that they're not tools of the devil, like some of the breastfeeding books intimate. he just pooped, audibly. gotta go."

"Congratulations!"

"I had to use shields for about a month after he came home from the hospital, but just because E was a preemie and just didn't have the strength and stamina to latch on. Right around his due date he was strong enough to ditch the bottles (and no…"