It was a world of tears and ouch. Need it be again?
Nursing mother alumni filter: Question about breast feeding a second baby, when you had trouble breast feeding the first. For nursing mothers, past and present: If you had difficulty breast feeding...
View ArticleHow to estimate breast milk production?
Is there a simple way to estimate how much breast milk my baby is consuming? I'm trying to keep track of my son's daily caloric intake, but I don't know how much breast milk he's actually drinking. Is...
View ArticleHelp me decide
What have your experiences been with the combination birth control pill (or the progestin-only pill) while breastfeeding? Did it affect your milk supply? For several years, I took the combination...
View ArticleNew Mom Resource List -- Southern Maine Version
I want to put together an area resource list for my sister who will be having her first baby in November. She lives in the Greater Portland Area of Maine. I intend the resource list to include things...
View ArticleHelp me feel better about leaving my baby for a business trip
I am going to be away from my baby for five days. Help me know that he will be OK without me. My first child is seven and a half months old. In two weeks I am going on a non-optional five day business...
View ArticleFlavoured Milk.
Different foods and breastfeeding - looking for real evidence. Newborn-filter. I've read through reams and reams of stuff about what nursing mothers shouldn't eat when breastfeeding - but it's really,...
View ArticleGot Milk?
How much breastmilk do I really need to send to daycare each day? And how much should I have in the freezer? And all sorts of other questions. Little Miss is five weeks old. Last week I started pumping...
View ArticleBreast of both worlds?
Breastfeeding woes: is there any way to battle nipple confusion without cutting out artificial nipples completely? When baby litnerd was born about 5 1/2 weeks ago, his latch was horrendous for various...
View ArticleSudden bottle feeding strike, doo dah, doo dah
Suddenly my ten week old baby is refusing bottles of breastmilk. Just in time for daycare. Help! After ten weeks of taking an occasional bottle of EBM, the smallest Arthur shorty is on a bottle strike....
View ArticleHow to corral the boobs for style and ease of access?
Magestically breasted nursing mums: help me dress my new body. Baby brambory is now a month old and breastfeeding like a champ. We've both taken to feeding with no big problems and all seems to be...
View ArticleFive month old eats all night now. Can we get it back down?
Our five month old son has gone from (breast) feeding once or twice overnight, to feeding at least every couple of hours. We're at the very beginning of trying solids. Can we get the night feedings...
View ArticleHow to wean?
When and how did you stop breastfeeding? Relatives are pressuring me to wean my baby (single digit month old). They mean well: baby starts childcare soon; will eat more solids; i go back to work soon;...
View ArticleLeaving my baby
I'm leaving my 7 month old baby with his other mom for three days. This will be the first time I'm away from him for longer than a couple of hours, and the first time I won't be able to nurse him. I am...
View ArticleThe kid is alright, but what about the parent?
Can you help me make peace with giving my baby formula when he's at daycare? My baby is now 10 1/2 months old and at daycare during the week. Up until now, he has been breastfeeding at home and...
View ArticleBaby's sleep patterns veering badly off course; how can we correct them?
Our 5½-month-old baby, once a great sleeper, has now become a fussy, nervous child who can only fall asleep while breastfeeding. What are we doing wrong and how can we get his sleeping back into shape?...
View ArticleWhat to do in Austin when you're breastfeeding?
There's a conference I'd like to go to in Austin at the beginning of November, but Minipenny is still breast feeding which complicates things. Misterpenny and I talked about making it a short family...
View ArticleBreast is best! But you do whatever you want.
How to encourage someone to breastfeed without making them feel bad if they don't? Two of my husband's sisters are pregnant, due this spring. I myself have a six-month-old baby. In the country where we...
View Articleback to work - breast vs formula
My 6 week old daughter will be starting daycare next month (at 2.5 months old) - what should she eat at daycare? We are currently breastfeeding, I don't really want to stop, but there are some major...
View ArticleCombo feeding, las dos.
Expecting baby no. 2 any day now and this time we'd like to split the workload of feeding the baby. What do we need to know to make this work? What worked for you? Some more info: I want to do...
View ArticleExplain bottle-feeding a breastfed baby as if I were also a tiny baby
My parents are visiting to meet my 3 week-old baby, and we're all hoping they can introduce a bottle of breast milk to her while I run errands. Can some seasoned parents please explain the finer points...
View ArticleHow to transition from breastfeeding to formula.
My baby is breastfeeding 7 times a day, plus a bottle of formula. How do we transition to just 4 or 5 feeds of formula a day? I have a five month-old baby boy. He was exclusively breastfed the first...
View ArticleWhat caused my breastmilk to curdle/separate ... but not actually spoil?
Twice in the last week, despite following recommended safety handling guidelines AND the same procedures I've been using w/o incident for the last 7 months, my freshly-expressed breastmilk has seemed...
View ArticleNursing - Why Is Baby Snoozing at the Tap?
Little REH is a beautiful 5 week old boy. Breastfeeding is going pretty well, but there have been variations...regressions? Notes on the situation: - come down is a little on the fast side - baby has...
View ArticleDoes she have to move out already? :(
Is co-sleeping more beneficial to me than it is to my baby, and should I end it? If so, how on earth? To be frank, the only reason I am thinking about ending it is that I don't want to spoil my baby's...
View ArticleWeaning a toddler.
It's time to wean my healthy 1 year old baby, who's been breastfed on demand, was night-weaned around 9 months, and eats food well. Complication: I'm not sure what substance to bottle feed, and I feel...
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