no, not me. Friend going in for surgery, has decided to wean her baby over the next month or so, baby currently 8+months old. Asked at our LLL meeting how to wean kindly, got dozen reasons not to wean. Still plans to wean, still wants to do it as gently as she can. Baby is quite "addicted" (wants...

I can see Audrey's bottom teeth under her gums now and in the last few days she is getting very chompy with her gums, exhibiting a totally new way of mouthing things with a brand new grizzly cry. She is 5 months old in 2 weeks and her cousin got teeth at 5 months, so I think this may be...

Moo boy will kick against anything his feet touch and this is making feeding really difficult as it is almost impossible not to touch his feet with my legs when feeding. Any ideas anyone? I don't think I'm up to slinging him over my shoulder and feeding him upside down. teapot

I have had my rosacea flare up lately with scaliness around the creases of my nose. I used some of the MetroCream my mom uses for her rosacea but it was not getting any better after a couple of days. Usually that stuff clears it up quickly. So one nite when I was feeding Joey and the bottle of...

On the advice of (well, ultimately) Dr. Jack Newman, I arranged for an ultrasound treatment of my right breast today. My doctor had to write up orders for it. I've a duct (upper quarter, under my armpit) that has been plugged more of the time than not since day 3, and baby G is now 22 days old. ...

Karen wrote: I believe that I have a yeast infection and I have a prescription of 150mg Diflucan. Hales has it listed as L2. Has anyone had adverse side with their nursing babes. Not at all. It's very, very commonly prescribed for moms when combating thrush. --

I never thought that this would be considered a problem, but here it is. Alena seems to just want to play around while nursing. She grabs at toys or hair or fingers or (ouch) nipples instead of nursing. If she's not holding something, she won't nurse. The trouble is that she always lets go of...

Phoebe & Allyson wrote: According to the pediatrician, the bumpy red bits on her cheeks and forehead and inside of her elbows is eczema. She recommends lotion for the dry patches and cortisone cream for the red bumpy patches. I asked about Elidel, but she said...

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I'm bfing my ds, 14 mos, and would like to give this South Beach Diet a try (first 2 weeks are no grains, fruits, sugars, etc). I don't have much more weight I'd like to lose and it looks easy enough. Is it ok to do this while bf, though? Thanks, Annie

Hi, Can someone tell me if there are any good websites or books on introducing solids. Dd is 4 months old and our pediatrician said that I can introduce cereal IF I wanted to, but I think from reading this ng I am going to wait another couple of months. The pediatrician said to start giving...

Hi again everyone, Thanks again for all your notes about my being asked to move to the back of a store while nursing. A little detective work showed me that the woman who asked me to move was actually the store manager. I figured under those circumstances, writing the manager wouldn't do me any...

Has any seen any good baby t-shirts on the the web (funny slogans etc). I want to buy some for my soon to be nephew. Http://www.dribblefactory.com has some brilliant ones which i've bought from but does any one know any other good ones?? cheers si

Well, here in the northeast US we just experienced a 6 hour power outage. We managed just fine, but were getting a little crabby and hot about a half hour before the power came back on. DH said, "See, it's times like these that it's so great to breastfeed." Yippee for him! - Jen, hot, tired and...

Lauren wrote: I've only lurked for a while now, but thought I should pop in and say goodbye and thanks for all the help during my three years and eight months of breastfeeding. Great Job Lauren! Bittersweet, isn't it? Mary

So today DD had her 6-month WBV and while in the 75% for weight (17 pounds) she is going down in length... She has grown just a tiny little bit and fell from the 50% to the 25% (25 in) ....:P The ped is now pushing for the increase in solids in her diet so she can get more calories into her. We did...

.... is medicine for babies that you can take that is SUPPOSED to go in your breastmilk. From ROSIE mum to the screaming-teething Ella, who won't take sippy cups or spoons and has no way of getting Calpol into her, even though it's positively DRIPPING with delicious sugar..!

A little old lady at work was enquring about my baby and the conversation went on about bfing, solids etc etc.. She said since the baby is on solids now, if she wakes up at nights I should start giving her water instead of milk. And supposedly this will make her somehow stop waking up at nights. I...

My 5.5 month old dd takes 3oz of breastmilk in a bottle every 3 hours. give or take few drops. If she's given more, she'll gladly drink and spits up later. since I guard my milk as if my whole life depends on it, I usually fill the bottles only till 3oz each. She's been drinking this amount...