Family Forum / Pregnancy / Breastfeeding / March 2006

Hi, I'm guessing this is a dumb question....sorry
DD (9 weeks) has just had what must be a growth spurt - she normally feeds
every couple of hours for about 5 mins.  On the weekend she was feeding
every hour for 20 mins at least, and waking to feed every couple of hours at

Ok I know everyone asks this but I am being boring today!
Tara is 9months old. I breastfeed her, as well as give solids usually 2
times a day. She was introduced to a bottle at about 5 weeks old due to a
hospitalisation that I couldnt always be there for. We had no problems then,

They showed Janice bf'ing her baby, and was I hearing things, or did she
say that "baby" was 15 months old? Nice!
Dh and I were like a well-oiled machine all day yesterday, conspiring to
get those kids tired out, well-fed, and in bed and soundly asleep well

So, here it is 3 months post partum, and I'm just now starting to consider
my options for birth control.  I was on depo before, but gained weight and
didn't care for the hassles of going in for an injection every 3 months.  I
have always had super irregular cycles though, and ...

Any idea what could be causing my 7 month old DD to randomly wake up at
4:30 and 5:00 am the last two nights?  We've not changed her bedtime
(in fact, she was up an hour later last night than normal, because we
were out).  She's not mad or in pain when she wakes up - just wide

Karen's Sopranos post reminded me that on "Family Guy" last night they
had a breastfeeding subplot. I have to admit to not watching much of
the show (I don't actually like the show, but DH does so our compromise
is to flip to it during commercials)

My 4.5 months old son would not take more than 4 oz per feeding.  For
the first 2 months, he was taking in about 4.5 oz of breast milk every
3 hour.  Now he couldn't even finish 4 oz every 3-4 hours.  We took him
to the doc, and he hasn't really gained much in the last 2 months.  I

My son nursed to sleep every night, and couldn't fall asleep without
nursing. I ended up nightweaning (other than going to bed) when he was
one or two years old (it's all a blur) and it was hard on all of us --
but I was going insane from lack of sleep as he'd wake up every hour ...

Yep, I got shingles.  :(  very sucky.
Started with a painful, itchy rash on my rear end of all places on Mon.  I
had a PAP scheduled for today anyway, so I figured I'd have it checked then.
Yesterday I started getting very swollen and painful lymph nodes along my

well things are marginally less painful, but I took myself along to the
drop-in as planned as there is still a lump and there is still pain. As I
figured out there wasn't a lactation consultant there, but there was a lady
who I've never met before, who is not a consultant, but a ...

I need some advice, please.  My baby is 6 months old, and I feed him
with expressed breast milk.   5 days ago I got sick with a stomack
virus.  I guess due to dehydration, weight loss, fever,  and inability
to pump, my supply is practically gone.  I pump at most 3 oz now from

Ever since puberty, my nipples and areola has always been an erogenous zone.
This sensitivity has not lessened during their development during my
pregnancy. In fact it has increased. While my husband finds this quite
rewarding during foreplay, I am embarrassingly worried that the ...

I hope this doesn't sound weird.... It didn't, in my head, til I went to
write this post!
At 6 months pg, I seem to have so much milk, that I am having to express
lots. I heard, years ago, about people donating breast milk to special care

This is a weird and slightly embarrassing question. I asked my Mum, extended
breastfeeder and tandem nurser, and she looked at me like I'd grown a second
head.
Does anyone else have a milk duct on the areola, not with the rest of them

Hello. I'm having some issues with my baby latching on.  I've posted a
few times in the past but mostly I've been "lurking" on the group. Jeff
was born 11 weeks premature and just recently (last Friday) came home
from the NICU after 56 days inhouse. While in the hospital he was