I hope this doesn't sound wrong...but he's got an old face. I mean that he seems so wise and has such depth already. Like he's going to be a very special man when he grows up. He's so lucky to have such wonderful family supporting him. If I may, I'd like to tell the story of my SS. The Egg Sac (cannot by any means call that woman a Mother) hooked up with DH while they were in their teens. She kept pursuing him and he just looked at her as a one (or two) night stand. He dumped her quickly and went on with his life, then she showed up one day saying she was pregnant. He blew her off, but she kept hanging around, even after he was involved with someone else. He did show up at the hospital after the baby was born (with his new girlfriend) but fell in love with the baby and shortly afterward moved in with the Egg Sac and her other child, and SS. He tried very hard to be a responsible parent, had a job and was a Dad to both the kids (only the boy was his child). But he could not stand the ES, and eventually caught her sleeping with other men and doing drugs. So he left her. She was on welfare and getting child support from him, but she never let him see his son unless he gave her $. SS was 4 when I met DH, and DH was crazy about the boy. We eventually went to see a lawyer about setting out some visitation and went thru 3 years of drama in the courts with the ES. LONG story short, he tried to be a great dad, he loved his son but the ES was so toxic and horrific that she poisoned the boy. Now he's 26 and he and his father have such a tenuous relationship. He has anger issues, has gotten into drugs and has served time for drugs & other bad things. We tried several times to get custody of him, but the ES always managed to prevail but he came to live with us when he was 15, but then bounced back and forth to the ES and us till he was 18...then he beat up his dad and was kicked out of our house for good. DH has only seen his son 3 times since then, but tries to talk to him weekly, but the damage is really done. I guess my point of the story is that it really takes two to make the relationship be stable for the children, and anger issues between the parents will cause far, far more damage than one parent being absent. My own kids were abandoned by my ex-husband, and raised by DH. They're all good...they call DH Dad, and have no desire to ever see Jeff. He did find me on FB, and the kids were able to see his profile but asked me not to friend him (I wasn't going to) since they really didn't want him in their lives...he meant nothing to them and they didn't want him to know them. So I am confident that Haley will be an exemplary mother to Spenser, and if the father just fades away, he's going to be just fine. Our POTUS was raised by a single mother, and politics aside, he turned out fine.

I'd be concerned that the sliced turkey might have additives. If you could roast a turkey, you would get drippings which could be used to add flavor. You could make gravy with millet flour or rice flour as a thickener. If you have a covered grill outside, you can put the turkey in a roasting pan and put it in the grill to cook with indirect heat. At that point, it is pretty much the same as you would do when cooking the turkey in the oven. If the oven is kept closed, I don't find cooking with it inside heats the house much - especially if the oven door is kept closed. A remote read cooking thermometer would minimize the need to open the door to check on the turkey. Because modern ovens are usually well insulated it is better than cooking on the stove even when the stove cooking is done for shorter time. Not sure where you are located - if it is somewhere where the temp drops during the night, you could cook the turkey in the morning or evening. Or could a friend with AC cook the turkey for you? Or what about getting a turkey breast or other turkey parts? That should take less cooking time than a whole turkey. Or cut a whole turkey into parts - the butcher might do that for you. If you can use the bones to make a stock, then that could be used in place of water for cooking rice to add flavor. What is DSW? I haven't managed to decode that one. I think if you are putting up with a limited diet for 2 weeks to help your son, DSW can suck it up and live with the heat of cooking one turkey.

I just want to chime in in response to the posts that mention how much breastfeeding hurts. When I was pregnant with my oldest, I took childbirth classes from a nurse who stressed to us that breastfeeding shouldn't hurt. When my son was born, this instructor wasn't available, the hospital lactation consultant was on vacation, and the breastfeeding did indeed hurt like h&%! It was way worse than the pain from my incision (c-section). Every single nurse, doctor, etc. who came in my room, except for one, assured me that breastfeeding hurt. My friends assured me that breastfeeding hurt. After 3 weeks, I had to bite my hand or arm to keep from screaming when I nursed. By this time the hospital lactation consultant returned, I called her and went to see her. She stuck her finger in my baby's mouth, tears came to her eyes, and she told me she knew how much it hurt. She gently pressed my wrist, and told me that's how it should feel. I was hurting so much, just the pressure of my shirt hurt, but she was able to latch my baby onto me so gently that it didn't hurt at all. It felt like an absolute miracle, and it didn't hurt at all. Anyway, by the time I had my second baby, I knew that breast feeding shouldn't hurt. She was delivered in a different hospital, breastfeeding hurt with her, too (for a different reason it turns out), and when those nurses and the lactation consultant told me, "honey, it just hurts", I thanked them and called a private consultant. The private consultant was able to help tremendously. It didn't hurt at all. So anyway, this is all probably TMI, but I do like to encourage young mothers-to-be to get help if they need it. I got so much wrong information I was aghast. Breastfeeding shouldn't hurt.

Just adding to what everyone has said about stopping the bottles and nursing more. If she does decide to try that, she should definitely talk to a lactation consultant first. If she goes back to breastfeeding, I'm pretty sure she'd need to gradually wean off of the bottle while building her milk supply back up. Otherwise she'll have a very angry, hungry baby on her hands! :) When Sophie was 1 month old, I had to go into the hospital for a week for surgery. During that week, Claude bottlefed her and my milk supply dropped to almost nothing, even though I was trying to pump to keep my supply up. When I got home and was off the medications I had been on, I started to nurse her often. She was still on bottle at first, but I gradually took her off, an ounce or two at a time, until she was being completely breastfed again. It's not easy, but it's doable. She was a big, hungry baby too - 9 lbs., 5 oz. when she was born.