Hi there, We have twins who are 3 months old (1.5 months corrected) that my wife is currently breastfeeding. Occasionally I bottlefeed one of them to give her a break but our problem is with the other one (Hannah) who has problems with the bottle. Hannah will start to take the bottle fine but...

Alexander gets pretty bad eczema. It starts on his hands and feet and then he gets it in the crook of his elbows and behind his knees. Eventually his cheeks get chapped and it covers his forearms. We know he has allergy problems. My husband is allergic to a lot of things so it didn't come as a...

Okay, I can't take it any longer. I'm starting Medifast on May 1st (sooner if the shipment arrives). I'm going to also continue to breastfeed Morgan to sleep at nite. I haven't heard anything negative about it. Any advice?? ~Carol Ann

When my first baby was handed to me I wasn't sure what to do. Of course I was thrilled, overwhelmed, ecstatic and emotional but I had told everyone I was going to breastfeed. Now she was here and I was expected to get on with it, put her to my breast and nourish her... Well to be quite honest I was...

Hi all I haven't posted for a while, as I still have no one to feed as yet :) My milk came in when I was 6 months pg... since then i have either hand expressed or used a pump when I have had lots. However, in the last 24 hours, my supply has gone nuts.I am up at 1.30 am as I have so much milk,...

I've looked on kellymom.com which has been useful, but everything is either normal or a sign of a problem. My 6wk old next Monday daughter got baby acne last week. Normal. But now it looks more like a big rash across her face. very red. It's also spread to her neck, ears, head, and upper chest....

It's me again... Just wondering if anyone thinks I should be worried about static weight in my lil boy. He has been the same weight since 11 months old, and he's now almost 16 mo. Still has chubby cheeks, still night feeds, still doesn't eat much solids. Tonight we are going to try "nini's...

Am I the only one that things this is not reasonable? Is this along the lines of people thinking one can nurse in a bathroom stall? Two people today suggested that in such a matter of fact way like why was I concerned?There are bathrooms in that building... Neither of them have ever BF'd or pumped...

The immunologist (Catharina Svanborg) had logged hundreds of lab hours documenting ways in which human milk helps babies fight infections. Breast-feeding protects babies from cancer, but no one knows quite how. So when biologists in Catharina Svanborg's lab saw mothers' milk kill cancer cells,...

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

OK, so, my now-1-yr-old daughter was given a sippy cup full of cow's milk the other day, and she took a sip, and spit it out, and giggled. I tried warming it. I tried cooling it. Same deal. OK. So, I gave her a sippy cup full of breastmilk. She took a sip, spit it out, and giggled. I tried cooling...

We're back, and the skin test indicated that we're clear on beef and pork, but dairy, egg, tomato and all shellfish and nuts are out. So I'm off that stuff as well, until he's weaned. We're debating still doing a doc in the States when we're there (second opinion), since we don't want to expose...

I've posted this same question before, but now I am serious. I need to wean my 2 year old who absolutely doesn't want to wean. Letting him cry doesn't work because he will not stop (i've tried). I was thinking of getting some anti-nail biting formula, but I'm not sure if it is okay to use on...

I remember feeling *exactly* the same way, except I couldn't really go anywhere because DS screamed all the time. A mother and baby group, where everyone understands exactly what you're going through was the perfect socialization for me. If DS screamed all I got were sympathetic murmerings,...

I was thinking about all the strange places you might have nursed a baby, the best ones I have done are * on a trolley in A&E whilst attached to a drip * in the bath * at the boathouse, having our post outing crew chat, stood in the boat bay with huge male rowers wondering around what are the...

"Andrea" wrote in message ... I have been reading the threads about nursing in public and at weddings, and just wondered how do you nurse your baby? I have nursed 5 babies and always lift up my bra, quickly latch...

Sara-anne wrote: The wheat is a total surprise, since she's had some of it and hasn't shown any effects. IIRC, there's a high incidence of false-positives with the blood test (like 40%?), and a "she eats it with no negative effects" is more conclusive. You might talk to the allergist about...

One of Allyson's mom's coworkers had a baby last night. She doesn't speak a word of English, and none of the nurses speak a word of Chinese. So instead of trying to convey "Your baby is hungry and you should try to bf," they just gave the baby formula. Never mind that she *wants* to bf (I asked...

So, we're pretty sure that P is reacting to vinegar. Any time he has anything with vin in it, his chin breaks out. I'm at the end of my rope...if I have to give up vinegar, I don't know what to do. I love vinegar. I'm making some downstairs with Hungarian wine. Everything, including some of my...

We've just come back from the doctor who gave us the results of P's blood tests...according to that, he's had hits for milk, egg, wheat, beef, pork, fish, tomato and potato. Milk and egg were the highest, beef they think because of the relation to milk. Wheat the doc isn't sure about...he thinks...