I took ds for jabs today, our surgery has a baby clinic for an hour on a Monday so the waiting room was full of babies. It didn't occur to me til I came home that I was the only one actually holding my baby, everyone else came in with them in a buggy, or a car seat, I'd driven, so when I'd parked I...

you may remember a few weeks ago that I asked a question about blood clotting, as ds's tests had taken too long to clot. Well, we had another test, same result. They also ran some other tests on various proteins in the blood. It turns out that ds has something called von Willebrand's Disease Type...

I've just put 2 and 2 together and made about 3 million, a while back you must have accidently emailed me from your real name, at the time I didn't register who on earth it was or why or earth they were saying what they were saying, but finally I have twigged, I am freaked out by how many people...

Looking and Happy Hunters post and having had similar experience, of babies not being weighed provided everything else is fine, I wondered what others have experienced. Do they way babies daily in hospital? Do you visit the Ped and get a weight check? Anne

I'm going through a process right now where I am admitting to myself that my body isn't going to take being pregnant, or giving birth. But DH is keen that in the future we consider adoption, so I was wondering about adoptive breastfeeding, not suckling a newborn is one of the things I am...

My physiotherapist has discharged me, not because I am better or on the mend, but because I am too bad for him to do anything. I'm frustrated by this as basically I've only had one dip, as in my muscle function had always improved even if only slightly since the previous appointment, until...

my left nipple is unbelieveably swollen, if you imagine the bit of my other nipple that sticks out is fairly similar in size to my little finger, this is bigger than my thumb and jolly painful. Breastfeeding was painful during and afterwards, it subsided a bit, but as it was so obviously swollen...

duloxetine, it's and SNRI, but has good pain relieving proporties, so I'm suppose to be switching over to it away from Zoloft, but the BNF says it is a contraindication, not just a caution like everything else. Anne

I can't believe it, Ada was 1 yesterday, for a 2nd child it's been a surprisingly difficult experience of breastfeeding, with stubborn thrush, then the bizarre experience of a swollen nipple that then turned black and numerous other things! But we are there and now breastfeeding is just something...

I rang the airline to day to check a few details, basically that we can gate check the carseat and pushchair (we are still using the car seat as the pushchair on a 3 wheel frame). At first the assistant was unhelpful, you'll have to check the pushchair, you can take the car seat to the plane, but...

Nathanael had is 8 month check today. Everything seems to be fine, he weighed 6.62kg (still below 0.4th centile) and his head circumference was 45cm (haven't checked that). We need to get a urine sample from him as he's had some more episodes of blood in his urine. We also have to take him to the...

I've been pumping 5 mins each side after day time feeds, making that 4 times per day, it usually comes to about 6 ounces, which I freeze, I'm building up a great freezer stash. I've been doing this as I thought I might have low supply, ds's weight gain has improved, so it might be doing the...

just recently latching on has become really painful, and it lasts for several minutes (unlike when he was a new born and the pain would be for less than a minute), I think he is still latching correctly and I don't think he is gumming me or anything like that. At first I thought it was down to...

on this newsgroup, I hear about reverse cycle feeding, well my baby has done the opposite, he's at the childminders 4 mornings, he drinks 2 bottles of ebm, each 6ozs about 2.5 hours apart. When he's with me, in the same time span, he eats once and goes 3-4 hours afterwards. I'm glad he's taking a...

suddenly, for no reason I can identify I;ve got a plugged duct on the right boob, ds wouldn't nurse vigorously enough to get it sorted, now I'm pumping with my purely yours, still no luck, tempted to try the isis in the bath, a sore nipple has got to be better than a plugged duct! ----------- Anne...

on further inspection I've got a small white blob on my nipple (is that what you call a bleb?) I can't shift it, I've been trying for an hour (pumping, nursing, hot compress, even dh sucking) and my boob is still blocked. I'm off to bed now, really hoping ds will wake in the night, I'm really sore,...

finally burst the bleb after multiple attempt with the needle, it looked really odd when I squeezed the hard part an milk sprayed out of a wider than usualy whole, I'm so relieved, it's been sore for almost 24 hours, I was starting to get concerned about infection! ----------- Anne Rogers

My friend should be having her baby this week (it was due 2 weeks ago). She has a lot of allergies and is worried that the baby would have some, I told her what I knew (not much) and explained how breastfeeding was important and delaying introducing solids and that there were particular solids you...

I'm at work, I just notice my boob was slightly sore, went to the loo to inspect it and the bleb has returned. Massaged the sore spot and tried to hand express, no luck, but I managed to stimulate a let down and now I'm sore both sides :-(. ----------- Anne Rogers

Yesterday I saw an advert for the agency that runs several local day care centres. In big letters it said "nappies, formula milk and healthy meals included" and basically nothing else, only a telephone number and web address. Now, I realise that this is a fact, they do include formula milk,...