So, here it is 3 months post partum, and I'm just now starting to consider my options for birth control. I was on depo before, but gained weight and didn't care for the hassles of going in for an injection every 3 months. I have always had super irregular cycles though, and with depo I had no...

Definitely not my specialist area but I work with a colleague who almost dedicates her life to the subject of breastfeeding. Hope someone finds this of interest Doug http://troononline.net/sharontrotter/index.shtml

i see one is opening up in Perth, another FIRST for australia. gold gold gold, oh sorry. anyway, thought it was interesting chris

"Amy" wrote in message ... She's not mad or in pain when she wakes up - just wide awake and ready to start the day. Nothing is more irritating when it's not even light outside. Not hungry or thirsty? Sometimes it's...

My 4.5 months old son would not take more than 4 oz per feeding. For the first 2 months, he was taking in about 4.5 oz of breast milk every 3 hour. Now he couldn't even finish 4 oz every 3-4 hours. We took him to the doc, and he hasn't really gained much in the last 2 months. I have always...

My son nursed to sleep every night, and couldn't fall asleep without nursing. I ended up nightweaning (other than going to bed) when he was one or two years old (it's all a blur) and it was hard on all of us -- but I was going insane from lack of sleep as he'd wake up every hour or two and want to...

Yep, I got shingles. :( very sucky. Started with a painful, itchy rash on my rear end of all places on Mon. I had a PAP scheduled for today anyway, so I figured I'd have it checked then. Yesterday I started getting very swollen and painful lymph nodes along my groin area on that side. Today...

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well things are marginally less painful, but I took myself along to the drop-in as planned as there is still a lump and there is still pain. As I figured out there wasn't a lactation consultant there, but there was a lady who I've never met before, who is not a consultant, but a very...

Hello, I need some advice, please. My baby is 6 months old, and I feed him with expressed breast milk. 5 days ago I got sick with a stomack virus. I guess due to dehydration, weight loss, fever, and inability to pump, my supply is practically gone. I pump at most 3 oz now from both breasts,...

Alexander had his 9 month appointment today & his shot. They checked his iron levels & they were good. :) He doesn't crawl yet but he gets up on his hands and knees and rocks sometimes. He pulls himself around with his forearms (army crawl) and pushes with his toes. He pulls himself standing and...

Ever since puberty, my nipples and areola has always been an erogenous zone. This sensitivity has not lessened during their development during my pregnancy. In fact it has increased. While my husband finds this quite rewarding during foreplay, I am embarrassingly worried that the results may be...

Hi I hope this doesn't sound weird.... It didn't, in my head, til I went to write this post! At 6 months pg, I seem to have so much milk, that I am having to express lots. I heard, years ago, about people donating breast milk to special care babies, and think my auntie may have done it too. It...

This is a weird and slightly embarrassing question. I asked my Mum, extended breastfeeder and tandem nurser, and she looked at me like I'd grown a second head. Does anyone else have a milk duct on the areola, not with the rest of them on the nipple? I have one just before the edge of the areola on...

Hello. I'm having some issues with my baby latching on. I've posted a few times in the past but mostly I've been "lurking" on the group. Jeff was born 11 weeks premature and just recently (last Friday) came home from the NICU after 56 days inhouse. While in the hospital he was bottle feeding...

I asked DH to support me when I go to the doctors tomorrow, specifically to make sure that I don't leave without something being done, i.e. still on antibiotics and a come back next week approach, he has refused to do that, to which I can only conclude he for some reason, despite me telling him...

Done bfing DD that is. Not that she realises yet :-). I realised this morning that I had refused her 3 or 4 days in a row and that I didn't want to let her nurse again. There's been a bit of moaning and whinging for a couple of minutes each day but we've had a cuddle and she's been OK then. So...

I went to the GP, as basically there was no other option. I gave the full history and he had a good prod and observed the same thing that I was telling him, a hard lump and one side of the nipple, he described it as a string, which is fair as it is longer than it is wide, about 2cm long and 5mm...

Baby Harry had a great suck his first few hours, but then was so sleepy we got a bit sidetracked. His latch was poor, I got very sore, he ended up getting quite dehydrated, so we supplemented for a few days until my milk came in. About day 4, we cut out the formula except for when my nipples hurt...