Thank you Mark for ranking me up there with internet drug dealers. And I am finished now with this thread. Once someone places an order before any searching is done on the person they wish to locate I do have an "interview" with them and I do ask them to consent to a background check on...

I know there are people and institutions say that you should breastfeed exclusively until 6 months, but what do you do when an exactly 5 month old baby grabs your hand, and stuffs your toast (with cheez whiz) into her mouth? Do you feed when they seem ready to eat? You would think so. Around here...

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...

Any help with the following issue would be much appreciated: I have a 6 week old daughter. She nurses about 10 times (roughly every 3 to 4 hours) during the day with 6 - 8 wet / dirty disposable diapers a day. I'm going to have to leave her home twice within the next week (non-reschedulable...

in the grocery store tonight. She was paying for a case an a half of Similac with WIC coupons. This just depresses me. I REALLY think the state should be spending it's money on BF classes instead of paying for formula for healthy women. I asked how old the baby was, in hopes that maybe it was young...

Morgan is 21 months old. She has had a cold for 2 weeks and began to throw up and have a fever so I took her to the Pediatrician. Her normal doctor is not in so we saw another one. She was diagnosed with a double ear infection. Well, the conversation we had left me kinda stumped. She said that...

Hm, according to the CDC chart, Meg is -- hovering slightly above. She was born at 9lbs3, 22". She's now just a few ounces shy of 16 pounds and I expect her to hit 16 by 3 months (just a few days away). I think she's 26 inches by now; I measured her maybe 10 days ago at 25.5" I realize I should...

I am so miserable. Can I take this? The pharmacist says it is similar to Robutussin, and he can't see why it would harm Morgan, but what do you think? -- ~Carol Ann http://tinyurl.com/b9e9r Pics of Morgan

Hello everyone. We just had a lovely little boy on January 7th. He was 29 weeks and is currently residing at the NICU at our hospital. He's doing very well so far and I am trying my best to give him as much breast milk as possible. He is currently getting food through a tube and I am...

We're trying the "No-Cry Sleep Solution" methods of trying to get Ollie (14 mos.) to sleep more than two hours at a time. We've been doing it since January 1: earlier bedtime, routine, stopping nursing before he's actually asleep, and moving him to his crib (a Pack & Play next to the bed) when he's...

Hi all, I'm delurking to ask a question. I have a 2 year old (nursed until he weaned himself at 15 months :( ) and an 11 week old. My midwife suggested a Depo shot and I'm considering it but wanted to ask you all. Does it interfere with b/fing at all? That's my primary concern. Any complaints?...

I am feeling like I am at the end of my rope with bf'ing...I've been trying so hard to make this work, but it seems to be getting harder rather than easier. I really don't want to quit and switch to formula...this means so much to me...but I am feeling so tired and discouraged. Please can someone...

I'm using cloth, but I'd like to use paper diapers when I go out...and I'm *considering* switching when I go back to work and my son's in daycare. But every paper diaper I've tried leaks. The (diaper service) cloth diapers with the Pro-Wrap or Whisper Wrap covers rarely do. Does anyone...

I've posted a few times in mkb before (and many times in mkp) but this is just the third night for my DS, and he's screaming... DH and I can't work out why, can anyone help? Some background: DS was born on Monday evening at 42 weeks, weighing just over 9lb with apgars of 9 and 9, no apparent...

Hi to you all I had a sick computer (well 2 actually) and between Jean, Herself and her dh we got them fixed and now I'm backed. I missed ngs! Anyway Liam is now 14weeks as of tomorrow. I am starting back at work next Tuesday week (the 18th) Liam is thriving. But there are a couple of things I am...

Hi, My child is 3.5 months old. I believe she has silent reflux but not sure. I did take her to GI ped. and he thinks it's silent reflux. He put her on 1 ml of zantac twice a day (been 4 days now...) My child refuses bottle when she sees it coming, even before she takes it. She does not throw up...

Can anyone tell me if there are any adverse effects of paracetamol given to babies? cheers teapot

Hey all, a midwife friend brought her scale over and Meg is 13 pounds, 12 ounces in street clothes today, at eight weeks exactly! She's sticking on that 95% line on the growth chart. It was nice because I won't go for another WBV for another month, and even then am considering skipping it so we...

X-posted to mkp and mkb I wrote a couple of weeks ago to say that my body was out of whack post D&C as "AF" was only a tiny little bit of brown spotting ... well it turned out to be implantation spotting. I got a +ve hpt last Thursday (5.5 weeks after a D&C at 9w1d), but wasn't sure if I could...

My 6 week old is back on hourly feeds. He feeds himself asleep and then he is really awake when I try to get him off the breast. The argument is, do we a) drop everything (eating, peeing, sleeping) and feed the baby as soon as he cries b) try to distract the baby so there is a longer gap and he...