How do you ladies manage NIP with twins - or don't you? At home I feed them both together - but this involves lots of strategic placing of cushions and positioning. To feed them seperately whilst out would take forever - they are not fast feeders. I have got a sling but can't for the life of me...

Hello everybody! Here's Jen, delurking once more to ask the people in misc.kids.breastfeeding for advice. My boy (7 weeks) pretty much has had a diaper rash from day one. I tried everything, including fungal cream. Sometimes it went away, but it always came back with a vengeance. Since a few days I...

For the past month my DD has been stretching out her day feedings. Along with this she has been waking and feeding more at night. She has been waking every 2 to 3 hours. At some point I know that she will start sleeping through the night again, but I was wondering if part of the problem is that...

Hello, I have a 15 week old baby girl that was born 4 and half weeks early. She was born weighing at 6.15 lbs and 18 inch long, she had to stay in the hospital for 4 days with rapid breathing and wet lungs, we are nursing great! She is now 13 pounds and 24 inches long. Is that a good weight gain...

i have one little avent bag of frozen breastmilk in the freezer. (this was my extent of my freezer stash! LOL. DS never ended up taking a bottle). it was from when DS was about 6mths old. he's 18 mths now, so it's obviously way past it's use by date. but i just can't throw it away. i keep looking...

Is there a so-called "good time"? Our son turns three months today and we love having him between us at night in our smallish Queen size bed. We could care less about spit-up and peeps and poops on our sheets. It's made breastfeeding so much easier for me and our baby goes to sleep when we do and...

My wife has been breastfeeding our first son for 4 1/2 months so far. She started working about 2 months ago and has been pumping out breast milk since then. A week ago, she noticed some blood in the pumped milk, which makes about 3 ounces of milk displaying a pink color. This happened again two...

When I had DS, I had an awful problem with overactive letdown. It went on for months and I seriously considered giving up BF'ing. This time, when my milk came in, DD started coughing when she BF'd and I could feel the OAL coming in again. I spoke to a LC and she agreed with what I was doing...

My dear mother oh so kindly mailed me a newspaper article about an anti-cosleeping study published in The Lancet, which I understand to be a highly respected British medical journal. Has anyone seen this study? Is it a decent study, a lousy one, somewhere in between? I threw away the article in...

Hi everyone! I lurked here, more or less, for about two years, while I was pregnant with, and then nursing, my daughter Sarah. I weaned her in July, and wouldn't you know, I'm pregnant again, this time with a boy. I just wanted to say a quick "Hi" to everyone, and to reintroduce myself. I got...

AF back: 4 month old robust baby, round the clock demand nursing, frequent night nursing, cosleeping, no supplementation of course. Mixed feelings! -- Dagny

Good and bad news... 2 nights in a row Xander slept 12 hours with only 1 feeding, that lasted 5 minutes and went back to sleep!!! And not only that, but he's been taking 2, 2 hr naps a day. This is sooo wonderful. We co-sleep and decided to try him in his crib and guess what? He sleeps!!! Amazing....

Richard wrote: If I can find nine other willing parents, I'll approach a mutually conveniently located pediatrician and propose that he or she offer these vaccines to the group. I would happily travel to NYC to get the mumps and rubella that P needs. -- "In Finnegans...

hello and regards to everyone: well it finally happened, i got sick, at the same time with DH, and both babies. (2 1/2 mos DD, and 3 y/o DS) does anyone know if sudafed is okay to take, my head is so incredibly stuffed, i've been taking one sudafed, as needed, plus tylenol, i also have a...

From those of you who have been there, what happened to your breastfeeding relationship when you got pregnant again when your DD or DS was 8-14 months old? -- Dagny just thinking

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I don't think these are related to breastfeeding, though nursing is currently out solution. Basically ds seemed quite an average baby, his night waking decreased from 4 or 5 down to 2 then to 1 then to none and he slept through 5 or 6 nights per week from about 4.5 months, this carried on til...

dumb question. I just switched to these bags from the medela ones. I am trying to build up a freezer stash. I had "defrosted" the milk in a couple of the medela bags by running warm water over them. can I do this with the gerber bags? the box says to thaw in fridge or on countertop. since...

Hi, I have 2 questions related to sleep. I have a 3.5 year old (who nursed to age 3) and a 9 month old. The nine month old stays with her grandmother while I work, and does not nap well at all. She does nap twice a day when I am home with her -- I nurse her to sleep lying down. I was thinking...

Hello All, I'm really new to the idea of pumping, and having a heck of a time finding an electric pump in town for under $300.00 for regular use. Are there any that you could reccommend? What does one need to have in terms of milk storage, bottles etc? Can bottles be made up for overnight or do...