Family Forum / Pregnancy / Breastfeeding / February 2004

Moo is nearly 9 mths old and sleeps like this - in bed at 6ish, awake
for snacks at 8, 10 and a big feed at midnight.  Then its up at 2, 4
and 6.  On good nights he will go 3 hours without milk. Writing it
down I can see why I am so knackered :-)

I always said we wouldn't be giving YoungBloke a dummy. For a start I
have always been happy to feed him whenever he wanted, and anyway, he
found his thumb pretty quickly so he was happy with that.
Until recently, that is, when he's wanted to put anything he can find

Kamron is almost 9 months old now, and the urge to get pregnant again is
strong!
I think it's because my kids are all 18-22 months apart, so my fertile time
has started.

(crossposted to MKB & MKP)
I found out at my LLL meeting tonight that the SIDS taskforce in town is
mounting an effort to have co-sleeping deemed a hotlineable offense (i.e.
you can be reported to the Division of Family Services *Child Abuse* hotline

I was starting to feel a little hurt that you all had ignored my posts
and responses over the last few weeks; however, I just googled myself
and most of my posts don't even show up. I've been missing a lot of
original posts as well, so I guess something is up with my mail

First, thanks to those who gave me advice on getting some milk frozen
in anticipation of returning to work.  I've set up the pump in the
nursery and I have been finding a few minutes here and there while DS
naps or DH plays with him, to pump some, and get some stored up.

Breastfeeding made easy
Clare Byam-Cook has been a boon to many new mothers. Judith Woods meets the
former midwife who takes the pain out of feeding time
As Emma Freud was being wheeled from the labour room on to the ward, after

I took Laszlo for his 2 year well toddler check up today.  He's just under
32 pounds and they couldn't get an accurate height reading because he
wouldn't cooperate, but the shorter end of what he measured was 34 1/4
inches and that puts him in the 50th percentile.

My nine month old is very easily distracted and turns her head
suddenly and doesn't let go first. It *hurts*. I'm pretty experienced
at teaching a baby not to bite, but should I expect the same thing to
work here? I don't let her back on right away, and this usually makes

Moving right along . . . DS (2 months) has a few white dots inside of
his lower lip.  Looks almost like stuck-on spit up.  They do scrape
off with persistence.  I expected patches with thrush, but these spots
are small.  My end of things isn't very helpful, or maybe it is?  BF

I was looking for an article, and I found this
http://www.gabrielfeedingpad.com/
Let's hear what you all think...

I need advice.  Ds is 6 months old, and has 3 teeth.  Just yesterday,
he began biting my breast relentlessly when trying to feed him.  He
started solids 2 weeks ago, and has had rice cereal and bananas.  Last
night, when attempting his nurse to sleep ritual is when he started

Baby has been sick for about 10 days now.  He'll sleep for no more than
two hours at a stretch, and usually wakes up every 45 minutes to an
hour.  I am completely sleep deprived, running so on empty that I can't
settle in at night because I know I'm just going to have to wake up

I saw an ad in a parenting magazine yesterday for new Avent storage
containers.  It doesn't say on the ad anywhere if they are freezable, but it
does compare them to the bags and how inconvenient those bags can be for
storage.  It says how you can pump directly into these containers ...

Here are 2 pics that were taken today
http://tinyurl.com/2m6w4
Andrea mom of 5.