My partner and I are brand new mommies to 9 day old Lauren. I am ebf her and it is going relatively well so far. However, she eats all the time, sometimes every hour, which I guess is normal for newborns. She is gaining weight well (is now about 10-12 oz above birth weight after losing 2 oz), but...

Hi all... I hope some of you remember me! I posted quite a bit when my last daughter was still nursing (she's now almost 3yo) and I see quite a few familiar names from mkp. I'm Amy... sahm to 4 wonderful kids ... our son is 11, and we have 3 daughters ages 8, almost 3 and 5 weeks. Dh and I have...

Hi. My daughter, Lucy, is 10-1/2 months old. I had planned on breastfeeding for 1 year and then begin ttc again. I have supplemented with expressed breastmilk and formula here and there when I could not be available. In fact, about a month in a half ago I went away for 2 days and my mother gave...

Hello all! Some of you I know, and others I am enjoying reading about from your posts. I just recently had my baby, and thought I would check out this ng since I've been a regular on MKP for the last several months. : ) My name is Alicia, I'm 29 and have just had a beautiful baby boy (Aug 9th)...

Hi all, I've enjoyed this newsgroup immensely and have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks that I've lurked here. First- some background. . . I have 3 girls, ages (almost) 3 years, 15 months, and 2 weeks (today). I wanted to nurse them all between 6-12 months, but only made it 5.5 months with 1st...

I've been lurking here for a while and I'm finally going to jump in and introduce myself. I'm mom to Oliver who is 8 months. Other than a few ups and downs along the way our nursing relationship has been pretty smooth. He is exclusively breastfed. We started solids at 6 months, started with...

Hi all, I've posted in various places before so I guess a few of you know me already but for those that don't, hello :-) We're in Cambridge, UK and my DS Matthew is a bit over 7 months old now (how time flies). He's been exclusively bf-ed until he started on solids just before six months of...

Hello, I have been lurking here for quite some time now, and now that I have a 4 day old nursing infant, I find I already have a question. During my labour, I had to have antibiotics (due to GBS+). Could thrush be appearing this early? I have noticed yesterday and today that when I apply some...

This is just idle curiosity, but the "older baby won't take a bottle, maybe a sippy cup would work" thread got me thinking. Is there any benefit to transitioning from the occasional bottle to a sippy cup earlier than normal? (I've actually got no idea what's normal, but I'd guess it's around a...

Greetings folks: I'm mom to an eight week old boy who is exclusively breastfed. One of the women in my parent/tot group told me this morning that she had read that babies should be introduced to bottlefeeding by this time, to get them used to it. Otherwise if you want to use bottles and expressed...

A question for all the parents who introduced solids at 6 months, when did you introduce meat and fish? Books say 6 months but they assume you started solids at 4 months. I have also read that you shouldnt breast feed right before or after a meat meal as it decreases the iron absorption...

My little boy is almost 7 months and we started to introduce solids. He is still nursing every three hours as well. He seems totally indifferent to the food. He's far more interested in bitting and playing with the spoon than actually eating. My friends who use formula seem to have kids that open...

My daughter is seven weeks old and feeding well - ok, it often still hurts quite a lot, but that's definitely getting better, and she's healthy and growing. I want to keep breastfeeding her exclusively for some months to come, but it would be nice to *occasionally* be able to get away for two...

Dear All, I thought this would be the proper time to introduce myself . I'm Elly, mom to Erin, she's 5 days old today, our first child, and a very hungry brestfed baby ;-) I lurked here during the pregnancy, and hope you won't mind if I drop in with a question every now and then! Elly mom to Erin...

Hi all, I thought I'd pop in and introduce myself. My name is Carrie and I'm the proud breastfeeding Mom of (almost) 4 year old Jazz. In my spare time I'm a stay at home Mom, Breastfeeding counselor, advocate, and Executive Director of Promotion of Mothers' Milk (promom.org). My hubby is a work...

Hi all, I've been reading this newsgroup for a while now, but since I have now 'officially' promoted from m.k.p. to m.k.b., I thought i'd say Hi :-) A lot of names are familiar from m.k.p. anyway, and some of you might know me too. Anyway, I'm Cath, I'm Dutch and live in the south of the...

Hi, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm 37 years old and 21 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I've been reading m.k.p for the last year or so. I've just started to read this group because I'm the sort of person who likes knowing all sorts of information and perspective _before_ I need them! I...

Hello, I've been lurking here since my daughter was born the end of March. I've found your posts to be so helpful. I've been breastfeeding my daughter very successfully since day one. She has had consistent weight gain of close to an ounce a day and now weighs nearly 15 lbs, from a birth weight of...

Hi all! My name is Tanja, I'm 31 and I have been lurking here for about three years. I have two kids, DD who is 4,5 and DS who is 11 weeks. I bfed DD for only 3 months (unfortunately), but am determined to reach at least 1 year mark with DS. Thanks to all the info and wisdom I got here at mkb, I...

Hi I am April and I am a mother to a newborn daughter who is adorable and is 1 week old today, I started expressing milk earler this week and on the whole am doing well. I have come down with a flu type bug, midwife and myself not sure if its flu or mastitis, is it safe to take medicine such as...