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Carol Ann wrote:
The first time I used baby clippers on DS, I couldn't see very well and ended up with a chunk of his thumb. :-( Ever since, I've only used nail scissors and have had better luck. Much easier to control. Really!? My aunt told me the same thing. I nearly had a stroke I was so scared with those scissors, lol. I used a clipper from day one and never had a problem. I cut Hunter's ear fairly bad with a pair of scissors when I was giving him is first hair trim. Last time to. I never cut it again. Oh my God! This thread is getting funny. Hazards of trimming. Particlarly pathetic in my case as Hunter was at least 18 months old if not a little older! I am trying to be as careful as I can when I trim Morgan's nails. I doubt I'll get them very short. Perhaps gloves are in her future? It gets easier. For one thing those newborn nails are so soft they don't clip well at all IMO. Once they get a little stiffer they clip off easier :-) -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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Nina wrote:
Experts say that darker skin makes children more susceptible to rickets. This is because darker tones tend to protect the skin from a certain amount of ultraviolet rays, causing an almost natural deficiency in vitamin D. True enough, though the only person I've ever actually met who had had rickets was of Irish descent and quite fair-skinned. I suspect some kind of dietary deficiency (I *think* she was raised on canned-milk formula until the rickets diagnosis -- not sure if canned milk had vitamin D added to it in those days). --Helen |
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"Carol Ann" wrote At one point during my hospital stay, however, I did require sleeping pills and having the baby sent to the Nursery. I was at my wits end. I was crying hysterically. It was a very bad time for me and Morgan wouldn't take my breast. It was very painful for me to accept. Then, they explained if I am so stressed out, my milk won't come in AND Morgan won't breastfeed. Oh, honestly. I think they fed you a line there. Sure, you needed to find a way to relieve your stress, but for YOU, not because anything would affect the milk. At that point the milk coming in is totally hormone-driven, it would have happened if you were in a coma or raving mad or whatever. In point of fact, the day the milk comes in is often one of the *most* emotional days, so if anything there's often *more* stress going on at that time! I remember it both times as being a day when I went from laughing to crying over and over. It wasn't, overall, a *bad* day by any means, but it was definitely up and down. --Helen |
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