O.k. I'm puzzled. I have had mastitis a few times (fever with red, hard breast), and plugged ducts more times than I can remember now (just red, swollen, very tender segment on breast - no fever). Now I have something different! About a quarter of my areola is red, with a bit of...

Can you ladies please tell me if this is normal. My baby is 4 days old today. My milk came in 2 days ago and Elizabeth nursed about every 2-3 hours yesterday. By the evening my breast were still very very full and painful so I pumped some out. Last night she was up almost all night crying but...

Hi, My DS (12 days old and 3 weekd before due date) seems to want to sleep more than 4 hours at times. I have to wake him up to nurse and most times I am unsuccesful in waking him up. When he does wake up, he normally only nurses for about 10 minutes on one breast and that's it. He has plenty of...

I am just curious if this is normal or not. It seems that when I am feeding my baby, I get extremely tired all of a sudden. It happens not every time, but pretty frequently. Has this happenned to anyone else? Rochelle

Hi all, I've been lurking here for quite some time, and now that my DD has made her arrival into this world I have a few questions. First off a little background. My DS was born 1-21-97, and I was only able to breastfeed him for 6 weeks because my dr was insistent at me going on the pill right...

Erin is now 3 weeks old.. we thought she may have colic at first, but she doesn't cry non-stop. She feeds, then shortly after latching on and sucking she is full of wind, I burp her and she vomits enough that I need to use cloths to clean/catch it. Then she cries and wants the breast again...

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hi my baby is 14 months old.he is breastfeeding and eating food.he is not drinking water at all.is that fine or water is very important for him? thanks

Hi all, I have read lots of conflicting info on this. I am giving DD (7 1/2 months) water in a sippy cup after she has her solids, mainly because I want her to get used to drinking out of a cup, and EBM is too precious while she is learning! But is the water needed? She is still nursing well - 5...

Sorry about the quality but here are some pictures of Isabella taken today. She is exactly 6 weeks old now. http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=829886 -- Brigitte aa #2145 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/i/isabellazora/

Well, I have a pretty chunky monkey of a girl. :-) 75%ile in height and weight and 50%ile in head circumference. At 2 months (8 1/2 weeks) she is 12 lb. 11 oz. :-) She also had her shots today. Poor thing. Two shots in her right leg and one shot in her left. I tried to nurse her during but...

ANyone ever done one? I just used my ISIS for the first time. I got 1 ounce out of my right breast at 1:00pm. This is an UNHEARD OF amount for my right at this time of day. Usually I get drops, if that. Just curious if anyone else has an experience to share. S

I feel like I am really losing my mind, I am so exhausted. 6 weeks ago it seemed DS was clearly moving toward sleeping all night. There was even one night where he only got up once, and only nursed for 5 minutes. But instead since then things keep getting worse. He has gradually been getting up...

Hi Cheryl, I've been lurking here for about three years, and I ve been looking for a good excude to start posting. My son is almost 17 months old, but at 4 months, he was exactly like Jaden. He was never the best sleeper, but he made constant progress, and by three months he was sleeping 5 or...

https://www.handybaby.com/index.php?content=gallery.php I saw an article on this 'great' new product in the Irish Independent Mothers and Babies Supplement today, and all I can say is that I am shocked! There is bf, ff and then this which is the most uncaring, bad parenting tool in the world...

each year, our church has either a women's retreat where they go away for two nights and have a speaker, or a conference where they have a speaker for Friday evening and multiple sessions on Saturday but at the church so no one has to stay away from home. Each year the only restriction placed...

I knew MIL was going to ask the question one of these days, but she finally did on Sunday. "So, Melissa," she says on Sunday, "how long are you going to bf DD?" I laughed and told her that the proper answer was until she started college. Then I assured her that we were planning on weaning soon...

I finally went to the urgent care clinic today because I just wasn't getting any better. Sat there for over 3 hrs, but it was worth it, because I was diagnosed with mastitis that would have abcessed without antibiotics (according to the doc). I got a prescription for keflex (sp?) and should...

What are alternatives to a bottle/nipple for a newborn? When we ask the nursery nurses to avoid artificial nipples and use something else (?) Should I buy these and take them with me when I go into labor? If the baby doesn't poop within 24 hours after birth, is it dangerous and does the baby have...

I used to post on the OBY-GYN forums, and met a woman on there who got flamed for taping a blanket round her baby with duct tape. She has just emailed me as she has now brought a swaddle blanket out show here; http://tinyurl.com/2zo4o I hate the bit where it says "Devan always managed to...