Posts by MLA

Just wanted to update . . . So, we started nightweaning again on Thursday night. Basically, I nurse him to sleep and then nurse him the first time he wakes up (just to be sure he can make it through the night since he's used to eating...

I've never heard of the extinction burst, but what you've described is our situation to a tee. It was a gradual backslide until we were right back to nursing all night long. It's hard to stand firm when you're sleepy. But I guess if I...

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. He's starting to get the concept of boo boo now. He doesn't have a lovey -- He falls asleep holding different things every night. Sometimes it's a car. Sometimes it's a stuffed animal. ...

Okay, so has anyone here dealt w/a 2 year old who's nowhere near STTN? I need some help/advice/perspective/SOMETHING. I'm hitting a wall here. I want to do Dr. Jay's method again (we've tried several times and it hasn't stuck -- the last...

I'm no expert, but when that happened to me, and I started to feel wiped out and achey, the fever followed pretty quickly and next thing I knew I had a pretty bad case of mastitis. I hope that's not the case for you!

Ugh. What a horrible situation. My heart breaks for you and your baby. It's so hard to imagine his father not caring about what he's going through. I don't have any advice, but I just wanted to let you know that my thoughts are...

"Capri" by Colby Caillat "Eat For Two" by 10,000 Maniacs "The Things We've Handed Down" by Marc Cohn "Blessed" by Elton John "There Goes My Life" by Kenny Chesney "You're...

We had 5 or 6 boy names that we were thinking about. Nathaniel was in the lead. But during labor, I just kept thinking of him as Nicholas, for some reason, and when he was born, it was clear to me that was his name. So, I guess what...

If I want him to get a good nap, I have to lie w/DS (16 months).

It's so weird to me that there are peds who still try to retract foreskins. The status of my son's foreskin has never come up w/my ped (as there's never been anything wrong with it), and he's NEVER tried to retract it. He just checks...