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Hi I'm new to this...but I had to ask a question that has been bothering me and I wanted some other opinions. I bought tickets while I was 6 months preggo to Miami for Spring Break. I will be leaving in about 20 days for a 4 day trip. My newborn will only be 7 weeks old and is strictly breastfed....

Hi, I'm an irregular poster on misc.kids.pregnancy, but this is my first time around here. So HI to all. I've got a question for my SIL. She delievered a healthy baby girl last Saturday, her first. All the nurses (and myself) were amazed at how easy the baby latched on immediatly, and how content...

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"Cheryl S." wrote: I've finally come up with an answer to the question we all get in the early weeks of breastfeeding, "What? He's eating *again*, already?!?!"...... How much would you need to eat to double your weight in less than six months? Heh.

I've worked on Anton Edward's birth story off and on since we came home from the hospital, but honestly, it's a bit depressing (though all is well now), and I've abandoned it for now...so, here's the short version. He was born Monday, September 8, at 8:09am, weighing 7lbs, 4oz, 21...

Bubeleh will be 4 weeks old tomorrow. I've seen him smile many times, but as part of a repertoire of expressions that pass over his face, and it seemed almost random, so I figured they weren't "real." This morning was different, though...We'd had a good night--he wasn't fussy, didn't stay awake...

I am, not Sprogly, knock on wood. It feels like the flu, but I don't actually have a fever. Sore throat, headache, cough, a little congestion, the runs, yadda yadda. I really wanted some Theraflu last night (my throat was so painful and raw I couldn't sleep), but I noticed it had some decongestant...

This may seem like a weird question. Sprogly will be 5 months old in 5 days. I've not been in *any* hurry to start solids--there's a lot of allergy in my family, his father is allergic to peanuts--and I hadn't really noticed anything I could take as a sign that he was ready. He watches when I...

We seem to be having a nursing crisis, or maybe it's really a sleep crisis, I hardly know how to pin it down. First: no sooner do I post that we're not having any problems nursing than suddenly my nipples are *really* sore. It's actually the inner part of the areola (about the inner half), around...

Yesterday, I got a call from daycare at about 4:00 saying that they'd run out of milk for (4-month-old) Sprogly. I'd sent 20oz, which was more than he was eating each day last week. He's gone from 12-14oz/day pretty consistently to about 16-18oz/day last week, and now this. I generally can pump...

At the ad agency I work for, we periodically get emails from various marketing teams asking to pick people's brains if, say, they'd traveled on a particular airline, or play video games, etc. I just got one asking for input from new or expectant mothers for an Enfamil campaign. I'm...

He's 26.5 inches long, 15.5 lbs. The weight was a surprise, because I was sure he'd be at least 16 lbs. But his weight gain has slowed down--65%ile while it was 75%ile at 11 weeks; he's still in the 95%ile for length. Head circumference is still almost exactly average. I went in half expecting the...

Ok: Bubeleh is one month old today. I've had a little soreness in my nipples, not too bad, but they are a little tender. I was expecting that they'd get less sore as time went on, but they haven't. (I think our latch is ok--it doesn't hurt after he's been nursing a while. I have large nipples and...

Poor little 3-months-and-one-week-old Sprogly has his first cold. This, of course, is right after I'd congratulated myself that he hadn't caught the cold Bloke and I had around Thanksgiving. He's snuffy and has a cough. He's feverish, his temp is around 100-101F. Poor little bubby is just...

Has anyone found a cheaper alternative to breast milk storage bags? 5.99 for 25 is the cheapest I've seen the Gerber bags, and all the other brands are more expensive. I was looking at regular 2 mil freezer bags, but I don't think they're presterilized. Is it really necessary that the bags...

I've posted here about the fact that I've been seeking some kind of help for PPD (or maybe just depression, whether it's necessarily post-partum or not). I was on a medication that wasn't compatible with BF (Doxepin) until I was about 7.5 months pregnant, and stopped taking it specifically so...

I'm using cloth, but I'd like to use paper diapers when I go out...and I'm *considering* switching when I go back to work and my son's in daycare. But every paper diaper I've tried leaks. The (diaper service) cloth diapers with the Pro-Wrap or Whisper Wrap covers rarely do. Does anyone...

My son is 15 weeks old (3 months and 2 weeks), and I went back to work full time when he was 8 weeks old. Except for about 2oz of formula when he was in the NICU (given against my wishes) he's had nothing but breastmilk. His weight gain is good, averaging nearly 10oz/week, and he's grown a lot in...