Yeast infection can be a persistent condition, as many of us have experienced. If your symptoms recur again and again even after they have been treated successfully, it could be that the infection never went away in the first place. It was - and possibly is - always there, waiting for an...

Just interested in opinions here on the point of planning to formula feed even before a baby is born (or perhaps even conceived). Unplanned pregnancies and exceptional circumstances aside, I can't help but wonder that if it is too much trouble for a parent to even plan to attempt to breastfeed (or...

Just a few quick questions. 1) I'm back at work. :( I have to start 8 hour shifts this coming week. If I'm only able to pump once during the shift, will that hurt my supply? I work 3-11pm and he would normally eat probably 3, maybe 4 times during that period. I can feed him when I get home,...

I heard a great song today by Marc Cohn called "Healing Hands", and there is one line that I just thought was so perfect- he says "I touch your skin and it is smooth as silk, just like a baby drunk on momma's milk". After that, I kept thinking about how perfectly that describes the connection...

Jessica is now on a dairy free trial due to frequent complaints of tummy aches. She was milk intolerant as an infant but outgrew it around a year. It's only been 3 days now on the dairy free diet. She didn't have any dairy at all for two days, and then we had company yesterday. My SIL gave her a...

The past week or so, Christopher's been really weird with nursing. He's barely doing it. Like, he may latch on for a few seconds, but that's it. THen maybe twice a day, sometimes three, (usually during the night) he'll eat well. But even tonight at bedtime, he just barely latched on for a minute or...

This can't possibly still be from BF at 9 months, can it? My appetite is seriously out of control. I eat everything in sight. I feel hungry a lot, but I admit, I'm just eating because I want to a lot of the time. I think it has a lot to do with stress, I've probably gained 10 lbs since I moved 3...

I was at work the other night (I work at a hospital), and had been told that there were two LC's on staff in the OB department, one on days and one on nights. I had met the day nurse/LC last week. Because the hospital is so small, there are often no OB patients and the OB nurses have to float to...

Christopher still wakes up at night, a few times in fact, and I end up sleeping with him half the night. He loves it, I like to snuggle, no big deal. Though I certainly would love it if he slept through. I know he's waking out of habit, but I just don't have the energy to fix it right now. So, I...

Ok, so despite my dire warnings of horrible things to come if we give certain solids too early, DH just has his own agenda. He hasn't given Christopher anything really bad like peanutbutter or chocolate, but he's been slipping him things that, well, don't exactly meet my approval list ;) Last...

It went much better than any of us expected! The first night he woke up for hubby around 1 am, cried for 5 or 10 minutes when it wasn't mommy that came to get him, completely refused a bottle, and fell back to sleep until about 6 am. Not great, but not horrible by any stretch. Then last night he...

Christopher is normally a very happy, calm, mellow baby. I have made the connection now that probably 4 of the maybe 6 or 8 times my hubby has given him a bottle, he's had a long screaming fit a couple of hours after. This is so atypical of him, it happened tonight, and i finally realized dh...

I really hate to even ask this question, but to be fair, I feel I need to. Much to my dismay, I'm starting the night shift on Friday. I'll be working 7 pm to 7 am 2 nights a week. Christopher still eats a couple of times during the night, likely more out of habit and cosleeping than out of...

After a month of being offline, being homeless and unbeliveably stressed for a few weeks, and finally settling into our new home, I'm finally back online, with a brand new computer, new name, the works. Everyone is doing great..........we're settling into life in the country. The first few...

I know this is a fairly FAQ, but I've done all the normal suggested things and am still having problems. For about 10 days now, Christopher has been biting me like mad. It hurts. A lot. He has 2 bottom teeth. I've tried saying "NO!" loudly and putting him down, he always laughs. I've tried pulling...

We need ideas!!!!!! As many of you know I gave up a new supervisor position at work and cut back to 4 hour shifts as Christopher wasn't doing well with me being back at work. It's been 6 weeks now, he takes a bottle great and I had to start doing 8 hour shifts tonight. It was hell. He cried...

Despite the fact that we've been using it for several months now, I still have a hard time sometimes with the snuggle hold (newborn vertical) with our maya wrap. It is by far both mine and Christopher's favorite position at this point, modified so that his head isn't covered of course (he's...

I know they say that micronor doesn't decrease supply, but has anyone had a different experience? About a week or two after I started it, when my son was 10 weeks old, I did notice a little change; I had been dealing with major overactive letdown, which tapered off. I know that can taper...

Just to preface this, I have absolutely NO desire to start Christopher on solids at anytime in the near future. He certainly isn't showing any signs of readiness, and the thought of him even being close to old enough bums me out!~ :) He'll be 4 months old next week! That said, things are truly...

I started my new job a few weeks ago, and was really nervous about the pumping issue since I'm in a really small town and a tiny hospital, not a lot of staff, that kind of thing. The day before I started I told the Chief Nursing Officer that I am breastfeeding and asked if it would be a problem...