My son is 6 weeks old today. He was a little early (37+4) and small (5lb 13oz), after he had got over his jaundice he fed frequently, every 2 hours or more often. He ate even more than this between 10 days and 2 weeks, presumably the first growth spurt, then over the next three weeks he started to...

I have been on sertraline for over 2 years now, the brand in the uk is "Lustral" made by Pfizer. As far as I know Zoloft is made by the same people and just packaged differently, I once got some that had been packed for the spanish market and they were labelled Zoloft, but the tablets were the...

well we were supposed to be waiting til tomorrow, but it would have seemed so mean not to do it today, she had a couple of shavings of carrot, a couple of pieces of flesh from a tomato, some potato and a tiny morsel of chicken, decided not to do the purees thing, she coped fine today with the...

I've got my rheumatology appointment this Wednesday, there seems to be a lot I need to think of in advance to ask about, so I'm writing it all down, can you guys recall or think of anything that should be on the list? Cheers Anne

this is really not good, the swollen nipple is now less swollen, but has turned black on one side, don't know what to do at all, do I go to the doctors, now, or tomorrow, do I feed, or not feed and if I don't should I not pump and chance it, just to leave that poor nipple alone? Anne

I went to the GP, as basically there was no other option. I gave the full history and he had a good prod and observed the same thing that I was telling him, a hard lump and one side of the nipple, he described it as a string, which is fair as it is longer than it is wide, about 2cm long and 5mm...

well things are marginally less painful, but I took myself along to the drop-in as planned as there is still a lump and there is still pain. As I figured out there wasn't a lactation consultant there, but there was a lady who I've never met before, who is not a consultant, but a very...

I went back for the lets look at it again in a week with my lump on my nipple. The doctor said he had been thinking about it and thought that the best explanation was a blood clot as that would explain why it was like a string, rather than a blob. That makes complete sense to me. Thankfully whilst...

if you know someone has been breastfeeding, why on earth would you assume they'd stopped? I just got a message from my psychiatrist, saying she assumed I had stopped breastfeeding as I was taking another drug, which is only "caution" for breastfeeding according to the BNF, listed as only take if...

My husband's work Christmas do is black tie, so I pulled out the dress and tried it on, I wore it about 10 months after N was born, so I even have my "I know I am nursing, but just for tonight I need an underwired bra", but it seems my boobs are rather larger than last time, the dress fits...

I've just tried to look for something on hales online, usually I log in as guest and then I am able to search, but the site has been changed a bit and I can't search at all. What I'm looking for is what affect eyedrops for glaucoma might have, on another news group this is the reason a baby has...

unfortunatly last night I was admitted to hospital and given morphine for pain, we had to give ds formula as I have no stash of ebm, I've now been released from hospital and I need to figure out when I can restart breast feeding. I was given morphine around 4.30 am. I was on nil by mouth so...

brief history:- started off exclusively breastfeeding, there were some weight gain issues, but we solved them, then when ds was 17 weeks I was admitted to hospital due to postnatal depressions, after a week in hospital his weight had dropped 3oz and I was feeling awful, we started to give formula,...

I woke up on christmas morning with what initially felt like a plugged duct for the 4th time in an fortnight, no standard treatment worked and I was already on antibiotics, it was so sore in the end I rang the on call doctor thinking I might need different antibiotics. I saw him and he sent me...

I went to a check at the breast clinic today, there is some damaged tissue in my right breast, but nothing else to worry about, hopefully as the tissue heals the recurrent plugged ducts will go away too. ----------- Anne Rogers

Before ds was born I intended to nurse him through the first year, it hadn't occured to me that longer might be good. Now I'm better educated, it's best for him to carry on longer and I intend to let him self wean. The problem is my mum and my friends, they all think I am nuts, they already think I...

I'm starting a new thread because I think this has come up in more than one thread. Depending on your water supply rinsing but not washing a pump in hot water could be a bad instead of a good thing, this is because the system for heating the water probably includes some storage allowing time for...

this week I've had to dump around 24oz of ebm which had been wrongly stored. I now have 1 bag in the freezer, which may or may not be ok and enough for today and maybe tomorrow in the fridge. Problem is I have one of those weekends that doesn't occur very often, I'll be away from ds and in a...

Was on the phone to my mum last, I happened to mention Ada had been eating a lot that afternoon, instant response was that's a sign she needs solids, my response was, well it's probably a growth spurt, my milk supply will catch up in a couple of days, if she was bottle fed, we'd just give her...

I've mentioned in passing that my DS, 3 1/4 is very small, we've got to the point where we are having further investigations. My biggest concern is not his absolute size, but what if he gets ill and then has problems because he has no resources to fall back on, it just dawned on me that I have...