Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2016

5 days shy of 20 months

... I breast fed my daughter for 5 days shy of 20 months. I promised her a year, she conned 5 days short of 20 months from me. I can't even really say conned, she convinced me though.

It was a tough journey. For the first 5 weeks she didn't gain weight, we tried everything, and learned she was getting a fair quantity because of weighted feeds, so they tested my milk and I had low fat low iron milk, the low iron is not a shock since even taking 4 325mg ferrous sulfate pills a day I am extremely anemic, like my normal number is 9, after the iron pills. So we supplemented, and she finally started gaining weight (she was gaining height and head circumference, but not weight) and now she is well above the charts, has been since she was 6 months old. She decided she was done with formula at 10 months, which her doctor was fine with since she was still breastfeeding and we were able to incorporate whole cows milk.

So then when December came and I met with the RE she asked me to cut down, so that my cycle while returned and regular would not be effected, so we stopped boob when the sun was down, no more night feedings. Though she still got to have it for nap time, and comfort during the day. Everyone was okay with this, the toddler and my doctor.

Then came Friday. We took the toddler to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants. She got upset because she dropped the temperature toothpick from her steak which is how she likes to eat her steak, and started throwing a fit. She repeatedly tried to remove my shirt, not to feed but to hold my boob, we were seated directly across from the men's room, and with my PTSD resulting from sexual trauma, it was insanely hard on me. I told her if she kept it up she would not breast feed any more. She kept it up, and we reached the point of done. Today was day 3 without it, she hasn't asked again, and it's safe to say we are done. I might miss it eventually, I love the bonus snuggles from it, but I did miss having some part of my body to myself. For a month (hopefully) any way.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

What bathroom do you want my husband using?

I see this issue coming up more and more on social media, concerned conservative parents not wanting transgender girls in their bathrooms, well guess what, by that logic you want my big burly 230+ lb husband in your bathroom.  No he has not been on his hormones long enough to have his beard yet which will make him even more intimidating, but he definitely looks and sounds more male each month.
When we loved in GA (up until last August) he was still using the women's room, because well, they had more stalls, and we were in a state where he was worried about violence against him if he went in to the men's room. We live in MD now,and he has been using the men's room since we moved, it makes him more confident in his identity to be able to, and since he isn't in there to peek at people, or do anything perverted, it isn't a big deal to any one.  I'm pretty sure if he tried to go into the women's room here, 8 more months in to his transition (so now a full year after he started T) there would be many more issues. My husband is not going to do anything to any one's child, or any adult for that matter, while in the restroom, or anywhere, so it really doesn't effect any one where he decides to pee. Yet to all those bigots, for some reason, it matters.
I'm sorry that they don't understand in keeping transgender women out of their bathrooms, they are asking the transgender males to come back, people like Buck Angel, Chaz Bono and Loren Cameron. I'm just naming 3 famous men, there are more, they are easy to find.
There are new studies saying 1 in 3 people know or work with a transgender person, so chances are these women know people who have transitioned and never even realized it.