Turns out despite my efforts the dreaded postnatal depression is back. I really though I wasn't going to get it this time. My health visitor asked lots of questions and I do have it again. I knew deep down inside, but I was ignoring it. I have never treated PND with meds before, and I won't, just...

Hi all, I'm looking for a low fat recipe which will help me consume my daily 'dose' of oatmeal, in a portable form. I'm newly back to work full time, and can't count on having hot regular oatmeal for breakfast -- but want to keep my consumption of oatmeal up, to help with supply. I thought maybe a...

Is it "essential" or very helpful to purchase tops that are specific to breastfeeding? I don't have any, and I was just thinking about how handy would it be to just lift up the shirt? Do you invest in "nursing" clothes or just adapt? Betsy

thankfully this is 25 years ago, but when in hospital after having my sister she overheard a nurse telling a mother off, saying the reason she was so tired is because she was feeding her baby too frequently, now which do you think would make you more tired, breastfeeding, or sitting next to...

Wow, it's been ages since I have posted here (still lurk religiously tho:) but it I knew it was the place to come for the answers I need! Quick update: My YS is quite the rambunctious toddler. Still nursing strong @ just about 17 months. My longest nursling by far :) OS is growing like a...

http://www.coloradoan.com/news/stories/20040209/opinion/381853.html Wal-Mart right to say no By Linda Magloughlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------

I'm trying to type up a list of lullabies so that I don't have to sit in the rocking chair and wrack my brain to come up with a song to sing next. They don't have to be traditional lullabies, just so long as they're soft and slow and easy to sing... What songs do you sing to your kids? I like...

Two years. We've been going for 2 years. Wow. I knew I'd go for a year, but didn't think beyond that. And he loves his mama milk!! :-) I just got our hospital records (I had a feeling that they might have given P a bottle of formula when I was in recovery, hence his allergies. They didn't),...

Sleeping with your young baby is a contributory factor in SID http://www.baby-parenting.com/baby/cot_death.html

DD is now 10 months old and is still nursing. I still have not gotten AF and was wondering when any of you guys got yours. TIA Keh

When I was on maternity leave I used to watch lot of TV. I noticed that in one of the episodes Ma Ingalls has a son after the three girls. The baby was shown being fed by a bottle. It was an infant and he dies soon after due to some fever or something. I thought the storyline is set around the time...

So I have been trying really hard to make this work but I am still having a hard time getting them tight enough. I can see why pampers evolved. I guess there is a price to pay for being environmentally conscience. I've been working with prefolds but if I can't make this work I'm going to switch to...

Hi, Any advise is welcome, we are out of ideas what to do or to try. Three weeks ago our (now 6 weeks old) baby started having bloody stools. He was very fuzzy and restless with pains in his tummy. Stools were mucusy and liquid, When we switched to Nutramigen (hipoalergenic formula) everything...

Hi, My DS (12 days old and 3 weekd before due date) seems to want to sleep more than 4 hours at times. I have to wake him up to nurse and most times I am unsuccesful in waking him up. When he does wake up, he normally only nurses for about 10 minutes on one breast and that's it. He has plenty of...

Last night Will went to bed at 6:30pm without his normal bedtime routine - he had skipped a nap and was very tired. He fell asleep being cuddled by dad with the dummy, and I was sent out to buy take away for dinner. I got home to see Will asleep on his playmat, and I thought, ok, we're going to...

Well, only one item on the buffet line. DD is 5 months now, still co-sleeping. We like it for the most part. I'd planned to transition her whenever she cut back to 1-2 nursings per night. She's reverse cycling so still eating a lot at night, but it had settled down. In the last few weeks, however,...

At the tender age of just 10 weeks, our little bean has discovered the television. He's not just watching, but cooing in response. sigh I don't know whether to laugh or cry. -- Deirdre, in the company of Baby Beastie

Hi everyone. Moo boy is just over 5 months old and a nightmare at night. I usually nurse him to sleep at around 7 and he is fast asleep until midnight. At midnight I change him, and nurse him and from then on he will sleep in one hour to 2 hour bursts with grizzles and yells in between. Last...

I'm getting really sick of people telling me that I should have started Alena on solids weeks ago... No, I shouldn't have! One woman who told me this has a baby who is covered in rashes and flaky skin. He's allergic to just about everything under the sun and she couldn't breast feed because she...

"Leslie" wrote in message ... Anybody read the latest issue of Parents? I don't know why I bother--it always gets me angry--and this issue was even more full of garbage than usual. There's an article on preventing SIDS. ...