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That is going to be interesting Rae!!
I don't think I could do it myself. I got that tetchy tummy about it. Props to you!

I guess I am a big ole mushy pot about animals. Yes we do eat a lot of pork. I used to buy a whole hog and have it processed. The gentleman I bought from got out of the business when feed went through the roof here. I miss his pigs as they were always lean and big.

Oh and my birds were rather upset about the "quality" of the scratch. I tried to make up for it with fish. :confused: maybe they will forgive me.
 
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Hubby walked up to get the mail and saw 4 big does before he got to the mail box. Says there are deer tracks all over the place.
 
Good morning, my Squatchie loves! :frow:hugs Jeez, been away a couple of days and there's like a million posts!

It's freezing and snowing here in the Dirty Jersey...just started an hour or so ago. My chicken babies' first snow! They all came out of their coops (except my broody, Big Bird, who I hand carried out) and Lafayette, my AC roo, started doing this funky little what-the-hell-is-going-on chicken dance, lol! It was very funny! I'm using the water heating base for the one coop, and I just ordered a heated dog water bowl for the AC's coop.

Gonna drink coffee and attempt to catch up now. Stay toasty!:caf
 
staceyj said:
I believe in a womans right to choose to nurse or not.
I chose to.
Four times.
3 of 4 were really dedicated milk-drinkers lol.
Pretty sure lots of strangers caught a glimps or two of me with my "feeding apparatus exposed".

On baby #1, 2 1/2 weeks after he was born, DH's extra special super prickly and unwelcoming family invited us to a barbecue.
No other guests.
Just the parents.
His teenage sister.
His 25 yr old brother and his GF.
AND US.

Of course, just as the food was ready, that teesy tiny precious milk drinker woke up from his adorable slumber puckered up his face and wailed to be fed.
It seems that all my kids knew exactly when it was time to eat.

I was discrete. I went over to the porch steps. Got settled. Covered up with a blanket even though it was Memorial Day and almost 100 degrees.
We got started.

Then DH's mother screamed.
"Oh no you don't!
Not here in my backyard!
That is disgusting behavior. "

She called it that.
Behavior.

She led me hard by the arm to their basement and made me sit in a chair in a room with no windows.

Like a child being punished.

I was 22 yrs old. Practically a kid. Scared of her for sure.

Trying to be the very best new mother on the planet for my perfect newborn son.

I'd been taught to respect "adults".
Instead of telling her where to go, I stayed.
And cried.

When I came back up into the sunlight, dinner was over. Everything was put away.

MIL smiled in her smug way and led me over to the grill where she'd kept my steak "hot".

It was a black blob.

Wish my DH had had the kahunas to stick up for me
back then, but he was young too.

A few months later after dozens of phone calls begging us to go to a movie and let her babysit,
She poured a bottle of my painstakingly pumped breast milk down the sink and fed my child homemade formula (with molasses in it) while we were gone.

She was proud to tell us when we got back to their house to collect him.

That was the only time they ever babysat for us.

You don't leave your baby with someone you can't trust.

Whenever I see young mothers nursing I always smile at them. Give them a thumbs up...something.

Some silent, supportive, positive acknowledgment, That they have my full support and hope they never feel selfconscious about doing the natural thing for their child.
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Jesus, what an evil beeyatch. That is a horrible story! Sorry you had to go through that. Breatsfeeding is normal and natural. At least things are different now...
 
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CapricornFarm said:
How did you find that, it is old! ? Good work!
Ok, so the block is out. I know people do this with cookie tins. I am going to try using a wooden box and foil coated insulation we have left over from the basement. And a metal top to transfer maximum heat, with maybe a hood for the waterer to trap heat.... and maybe i can use a cookie tin for the other one.
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a wooden box?????
the metal cookie tin is so you don't have as much chance of starting a fire
 
Suzi18 said:
I suffer from panic attacks time to time and Xanax is a life saver. I feel your pain. Until you've suffered from panic or anxiety attacks, you just don't understand. I feel your pain Smuv
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Yeah baby!!! Five thumbs up for Xanax! (also have lifelong anxiety and depression)

Pills and Skills, as they used to say in the Crazy House. :thumbsup Whatever works!
 

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