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I would say ouch and then stop nursing for at least 1-2 minutes as well as praise him/her for nursing without clamping down, so that LO gets the clear message nursing w/o clamping will be rewarded...

1st degree tear w/ DS1- 15 hours of active labor, 3 hrs of pushing, 7lbs 2oz
4th degree tear into rectum w/ DS2- induced, 6 hours of labor, less than 30 min pushing- 9lbs 2oz

**Initially, the...

We were planning use to the infant carrier for DS2 until 1 year like we did with DS1- howver, DS2 is enormous- off the charts for weight and length (18.5 lbs at just shy of 4 months old). So, I...

Totally normal- I was told by my pedi that constipation is really common. We have Gavin (3, almost 4 yr old) on daily miralax- powder stirred into any drink. It is not absorbed into blood stream at...

Personally, I allow myself 1 diet coke/day- which I did throughout the entire 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pg. Some people eliminate throughout entire pg and bf relationship. Coming from a family of 2...

Help!!! My son, Liam, is exclusively breastfed but uses bottles while i am gone for work. He has been taking the bottle really, really well with no issues whatsoever from the time he was a few days...

I had 1.5 pulled pork sandwiches, some fruit, and a vanilla ice cream cone last night and then a cinnamon sugar bagel w/ butter this morning.

I am in shock. I pumped this morning when I got to work as I usually do- about 45 minutes after LO's first feeding- and I got 3 oz from one side and 6 oz from the other side! I have never pumped...

So, I had no bleeding yesterday evening, overnight or this morning, but now I have some light bleeding that some time in the last 3 hours- it seems to have stopped though and is not a whole lot but...

Also, for DS1, the psychologist agrees that he has a VERY strong personality and that he feels his emotions very deeply which contributes to why he will act out so severely to what seems to us a...

We struggled with the same issue. Fortunately, we were already hooked up w/ a psychologist for some other behavioral issues related to an autoimmune disease that DS1 has. So, she has continued to...

OMG! I am SOOOO sorry. You must be devastated. I know that I felt that way after I had to toss 1.5 mo of supply after I discovered that DS1 could not tolerate dairy, so I can only imagine what...

Welcome back! I know that I am super-happy to be back in this forum as well. I LOVE to BF, and am hoping to make it to 2 years this time around. W/ DS1, I had to wean for health reasons just shy...

Yes, I exclusively breastfeed. I work FT so I do pump 3x/day 5 days/wk in addition to about 4-5 nursing sessions/day. On the weekends, I exclusively breastfeed (no pumping) and I feed on demand. ...

Ugh! It has only been 9 weeks and I am having red spotting. I have also noticed that my supply has dipped a bit- not sure if that is GS related to AF related. I didn't get AF w/ DS1 until 13...

Woo Hoo- what an accomplishment! You should be very proud of all of your hard work b/c BF'ing is HARD work that is for sure, but so well worth it.

What we did was before we even weaned, we started to build a new bedtime routine so that he was familiar with that routine before we stopped bf'ing and create some continuity for him.

Liam Gregory
EDD: 5/11/12
Birthday: 5/1/12
Weight: 9lbs 2 oz
Length: 21.5 inches

Kristen

So, I am being induced tomorrow. With DS1, I waited too long (10 hours) to get the epidural as I was trying for the natural approach and also concerned that the epi would prolong an already long...

Mine did not hurt at all with DS1, but with this LO, they started getting sore around 6.5 weeks and it only lasted 2 weeks and then went away completely and never returned.

now- grilled turkey and cheese sandwiches, strawberries dipped in sugar, strawberry licorice, carmel sundaes

1st tri- lemonade, strawberries and sugar, shrimp eggrolls, subway's egg and cheese...

10 weeks for DS and 9.5 weeks for this LO. But I am on the thinner side, which helps. Both times I was warned by my ob that sometimes you cannot hear hb via doppler until 12 weeks so not to be...

All day m/s ended at 14 weeks, though I continued to have sporadic m/s for another 2 weeks. All gone by 16 weeks.

No m/s with DS.

We told our parents and siblings at 7 weeks- not intentionally. My DH was out of town at a conference and I was having severe cramping- thought it was a miscarriage. Had to call my parents to pick...

DH surprised me. He bought me an original Moby in black from Craigs List. She washed it before baby was born but never ended up using it. It is in really good condition, looks brand new, and it...