{"id":1417,"date":"2013-05-20T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2013-05-09T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:49:14","slug":"mommy-musing-monday-formula-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/mommy-musing-monday-formula-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Musing Monday &#8211; Formula Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m formula feeding Missy Moo. I tried and tried to breastfeed, but C&#8217;est la vie, it wasn&#8217;t mean to be. End of story.<\/p>\n<p>While there are lots of fun and silly stories about moms who have had awkward situations when breast feeding (read: leaking, baby trying to latch onto someone else, etc.), there are still misadventures for us formula feeding mommies.<\/p>\n<p>Like every mom, you try to be on the ball. On deck and awake at all hours whenever necessary.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes when you haven&#8217;t had your cup of coffee this happens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20130506_101918.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/8723489740\/\" rel=\"\"><img alt=\"20130506_101918.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7317\/8723489740_9c79c4c27d.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which also results in this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20130506_101926.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/8722369241\/\" rel=\"\"><img alt=\"20130506_101926.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7306\/8722369241_1b4c1c83fe.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then you have an area of your kitchen where it looks like the night after some junkies forgot to clean up after a night of blow.<\/p>\n<p>But at least the kitchen smelled nice. Have you ever noticed that? Formula smells pretty sweet until you mix it with water. Then it&#8217;s chalk full of iron-smelling <del>goodness<\/del> smelliness. And sadly, when the formula is barfed up, it doesn&#8217;t smell nice and sweet. Which reminds me of a time when my childhood dog Muffin ate a bunch of coconut and when she barfed it up, the result smelled like cookies&#8230; but that&#8217;s a story for <del>another day<\/del> never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m formula feeding Missy Moo. I tried and tried to breastfeed, but C&#8217;est la vie, it wasn&#8217;t mean to be. End of story. While there are lots of fun and silly stories about moms who have had awkward situations when breast feeding (read: leaking, baby trying to latch onto someone else, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[97,93,46,99,103,98],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-mR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}