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Glitch said:
We really wanted to breast feed our kids. Our oldest daughter just would not latch on. The lactation consultants would come in and all would be good. Then it would be the middle of the night and we would both be in tears from the baby crying. Once we took her home, when it was time to feed her, I would warm up breast milk that we had frozen and feed the baby while my wife expressed with a beast pump. We bought a separate freezer just for breast milk. It was a lot of work but I got to be a bigger part of the whole process, which I was glad of.
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Yep. Same. I'd feed everytime while she pumped for the next feeding. We were literally one bottle ahead. It was exhausting but I think there's a bond there that some dad's miss out on if the wife is the only one to feed them.
 
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Glitch said:
We really wanted to breast feed our kids. Our oldest daughter just would not latch on. The lactation consultants would come in and all would be good. Then it would be the middle of the night and we would both be in tears from the baby crying. Once we took her home, when it was time to feed her, I would warm up breast milk that we had frozen and feed the baby while my wife expressed with a beast pump. We bought a separate freezer just for breast milk. It was a lot of work but I got to be a bigger part of the whole process, which I was glad of.
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Did you wear one of these?

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GiggerVol said:
You are correct, and, sorry if my initial post was worded poorly and I guess by some could be taken the wrong way. I just see and have seen over the years too many women who refuse to even try was my main point. I remember those initial few days and weeks as well, even though it's been 30 yrs now for us. It was extremely frustrating and my wife would be brought to tears thinking she was doing it all wrong.
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Completely understood. Figured you didn't mean it that way but I've been seeing a lot of it on social media.
 
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thistime said:
According to Websters, they, cats, as well as dog will drink milk out of convenience but with that being said, it is because we, humans give it to them, unlike humans they do not actively seek other animals for their milk.
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What if they had thumbs and could open a refrigerator?
 
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All kidding aside , there is NO excuse for babies in THIS COUNTRY not to have formula. What's worse is I hear they are wanting to import it now......import baby formula...........REALLY. I have no words.....I take that back.... I have a lot of words but I feel fairly certain I would be preaching to the choir.
 
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thistime said:
Fun fact: Humans are the only mammals that drink milk after infancy. I'll go back to my corner now and watch......to dark outside to color.
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*cracks knuckles*

So this isn't entirely true. Some animals have been observed stealing milk from lactating animals of a different species. The first that comes to mind are feral cats that have been observed stealing milk from sleeping seals on a beach. Large predators will also favor the mammary glands on lactating prey to eat first after a kill.

All that being said, we're the only species on Earth that has been known to evolve lactose tolerance after infancy. That's something that some argue makes us uniquely human, though not all origins of our species developed that. Mostly Northern European people who started fermenting milk products and making cheeses, and I think some small nomadic African tribes that had a custom of consuming dairy. The vast majority (65%) of the human population is lactose intolerant beyond infancy, yet milk is commonly consumed in India, much of Central and East Asia (95% of Mongolians are lactose intolerant yet consume milk often), and milk consumption has been pushed in black communities in the US through goverment ad campaigns (Got Milk?) despite 80% being lactose intolerant.

All that said, as a person of European descent that can largely handle dairy without issue, I love milk, ice cream, and cheese. And if we are the only mammal that drinks milk after infancy... we're also the only species that can use a cell phone, we invented the internet, we created beer, and we are the only species that butt chugs it.
 
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I know when it isn't football time we all post about everything and it's a lot of fun at times but with the successes we have had across the board in sports, 2 years ago could you have imagined where we are now. If nothing else I hope this has taught several people a valuable lesson: The first criteria for a Coach, AD or janitor for that matter is they DO NOT HAVE TO BE A VFL .

I know this stuns a lot of people but there are people that make a living doing those jobs that went to schools all over and some of those same people are just better at what they do than a VFL that does the same job. I know it is hard for some to accept but think about where we are and where we were with that mind set. MANY GREAT VFL could be the right one but lets make sure they are truly the best at what they do. So please from now on can we not agree that we need to look for the best and not start naming every VFL for every open position ( and I hope we don't have ANY for some time ) in the future.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Knoxville. UT
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UT hospital was almost the death of me. Fun fact, May 18th, 2017, I was admitted to UT hospital after going to the ER. I spent like 10 days there, never getting better. Told them to just let me go home. They threatened to have me pulled of the transplant list if I left. When I threatened to leave anyway the finally contacted my liver doctor, thinking he'd convince me to stay. The fact I was in there at least a week before they even bothered to contact my liver doctor at Vanderbilt should tell you something. He asked for my labs, looked at the numbers, and said he wanted me transferred to Vanderbilt ASAP. So I got to take an ambulance ride from UT Hospital here in Knoxville to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. Pretty quick trip as the ambulance driver was doing 95-100 almost the entire trip. Anyway, if left to their own devices, I'm positively convinced the doctors at UT would have let me die. They don't do liver transplants at UT Knoxville, yet for some reason, it never occurred to them to send someone on the liver transplant list to the hospital that does liver transplants. Dumbasses.

Anyway, we're just minutes away from it being May 18th. Five years ago, I went into the hospital here in Knoxville, eventually got transferred to Vandy, and didn't get out of the hospital until July 3rd. My transplant was June 9th. It was October 21st before I finally got to come home to Knoxville. I had to stay in the Nashville area and be monitored after the transplant.

And May 18th is also my birthday.
 
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SoilVol said:
*cracks knuckles*

So this isn't entirely true. Some animals have been observed stealing milk from lactating animals of a different species. The first that comes to mind are feral cats that have been observed stealing milk from sleeping seals on a beach. Large predators will also favor the mammary glands on lactating prey to eat first after a kill.

All that being said, we're the only species on Earth that has been known to evolve lactose tolerance after infancy. That's something that some argue makes us uniquely human, though not all origins of our species developed that. Mostly Northern European people who started fermenting milk products and making cheeses, and I think some small nomadic African tribes that had a custom of consuming dairy. The vast majority (65%) of the human population is lactose intolerant beyond infancy, yet milk is commonly consumed in India, much of Central and East Asia (95% of Mongolians are lactose intolerant yet consume milk often), and milk consumption has been pushed in black communities in the US through goverment ad campaigns (Got Milk?) despite 80% being lactose intolerant.

All that said, as a person of European descent that can largely handle dairy without issue, I love milk, ice cream, and cheese. And if we are the only mammal that drinks milk after infancy... we're also the only species that can use a cell phone, we invented the internet, we created beer, and we are the only species that butt chugs it.
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You know I think I heard the human and milk thing years ago on the Jack LeLanne show. For those to young he was one of the first TV fitness guys. He was a huge opponent of milk at one time for humans after they were out of their teens as I remember. Thanks for the info because unlike some, I ain't never been so smart I couldn't learn something.
 
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