Posts by ElisMomma

I am currently 12 weeks pregnant with my second (and third). I was in the process of interviewing midwives when I had an ultrasound at an OB office informing us we're having twins. I was devastated. I'm crazy excited for the twins, I'm...

I'm having surgery at the end of the month. Doc said they could either do local or general anesthesia but he recommends general. Will either affect bm?

Love it. Attending.

So I'm going home for Christmas and will see my cousin who has a 9mo DD. It took some convincing and encouragement to get her to BF in the first place so now I feel somewhat responsible to "educate" her as far as her alcohol...

As far as the cow's milk thing goes, I was most interested to learn that lactose INtolerance is the norm. It's only in people of European descent who, long ago, evolved to drink cow milk because that's what they had. Considering the...

1. Benefits for BF past a year. 2. LC available 3. Allowed to purchase Organic (cereals/PB/eggs) 4. Fruits and Veg 5. Quote: Originally Posted by amandaleigh37 Our office is not stingy with pumps at all either. I was...

It's a start: http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/obamapetition

Quote: Originally Posted by lurve DD is 22 months and i keep proudly telling people she nurses and we do it in public too (and i am not very discrete). i figure i am helping to normalize it so others will have an...

And I don't know where else to ask. I apologize in advance but I feel like you're a group of unjudging people that I can trust. Anyways, I haven't received AF since my 14 mo. old (BFed) was born. I went for a pretty vigorous horse...

Thanks so much! I also think that it was aggravated by a change in detergent. During Thanksgiving at my mom's house, she washed my nursing pads with Tide (not a huge fan). Thank you so much for your help.