So, DS, who is now 10 months old, has been diagnosed as highly allergic to milk, peanuts, eggs, wheat and soy. We have a good allergist, and he commended me for BFing "so lomg" and said I should keep it up as long as possible. Which is fine by me, but I have to be on the same diet, and we've...

So, DS, who is now 10 months old, has been diagnosed as highly allergic to milk, peanuts, eggs, wheat and soy. We have a good allergist, and he commended me for BFing "so lomg" and said I should keep it up as long as possible. Which is fine by me, but I have to be on the same diet, and we've...

I have gestational diabetes and I'm looking for sources on the effect that bf-ing immediately after birth has on a baby's sugar levels, especially on babies born to GD mothers. The only citation I have is from Henci Goer, but I'm looking for more. I'm hoping that maybe some of y'all have run...

I've posted here before and I've seen other recent posts (which I'm taking into consideration), but I'm asking for some clear concise instructions here. I've been rather sick lately and having trouble getting my naps in so my thinking is rather muddled this week. My son has been supplemented...

I've been working on getting my DS off of supplementation for quite some time. We were having what seemed like nipple confusion issues a few weeks back and I looked into sippy cups but then he started nursing okay again. I didn't know what to buy, so I just dropped the issue. Well now I'm...

Well we've backslid quite a bit this week, when I was looking forward to getting some progress done, but there's a good reason. Ian has been congested since birth. Lately its gotten a whole lot worse, to the point that I took him to the doctor Wednesday. Things seemed to go well on Monday, but...

When my son Ian was born 3.5 weeks ago, he suffered from pathologic jaundice due to blood group incompatibility. He wasn't doing very well and my milk was coming in slowly, so my doctor decided to push fluids through him at the time, using only a finger feeder so as to monitor his food intake...

I'm going to be delivering in the next couple of weeks and plan to immediately go on antidepressants to prevent PPD. I have a prior history of severe depression, a history of severe depression following two previous uncompleted pregnancies and I've had some severe depression throughout...

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I ran across this site and had tears streaming down my cheeks when I came to this "invention". It gives a whole new meaning to the term "nipple confusion". The writeup underneath the picture is really funny... http://www.totallyabsurd.com/milkgun.htm Joanne Mom to Nathan - 16 months

WHoops...posted this to misc.kids.pregnancy by mistake... I wanted to share an interesting tidbit that I got from the administrator of our Nursing Mother's Program (NMP) here at work. I work for Kodak and I was flabbergasted to find out that they give all women who work for the company and have a...

So, I go to pick up my sons at daycare. It's a nice day outside, so the 3 year olds are outside on the playground. I get over to the playground and my 3 year old (Nathan) yells, "MOM, I'm feeding my baby!" And there he is, shirt hiked up and an 8 inch round playground ball shoved up against his...

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Does anyone else here read her comic? I love her work. Jo http://thecowgoddess.com if you haven't read it and wan't to know what it is.

Last week marks one year of nursing. Ronnie is about 90% bf still, but this week is wanting to eat more and more of the regular food. Brown Rice and Veg with Braggs are his favorite, little bites here and there. It has been a hard yet wonderful year. I struggled with nursing on one side for a...

I spoke to my cousin who is going to be adopting. She asked about breastfeeding and how can she produce milk. There is a lot of information online, but I was hoping to hear from someone who had actually done it and how they went about it. How difficult was it? Jo

Okay I can't think of anything that can come close to how angry I am about this. I wrote TLC and hope a few other mums do the same. I would love to see some of the dads here write as well. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/194/story_19451_2.html Jo

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061209/bob8.asp Milk Therapy Breast-milk compounds could be a tonic for adult ills Julie J. Rehmeyer Catharina Svanborg thought that she already knew how remarkable breast milk is. The immunologist had logged hundreds of lab hours documenting ways in which...

I don't get enough time online to participate, but I know several of the girls in the infertility group travel over here to get help. I have been having a lot of trouble with supply with Ronnie on and off because of illness and PCOS. No one had ever told me that having infertility issues would make...

Anyone heard of this? What are your thoughts? http://www.awareparenting.com/answer13.htm Its all so confusing! I thought it would be much kinder to them if they didn't cry - a dummy/boob/rocking/wrapping helps that, but what do we really know about how much a baby *needs* to cry?