Posts by Elowyn

If you go with the paternal side, we're BF back as far as anyone can tell. I was BFed (in the 70's,) as was my dad (early 50's, wtg grandma!,) and undoubtedly my paternal grandmother as well (homeborn on a farm in the 20's) and so on...

Two cats. Three if the human's a fastidious housekeeper. Speaking as someone who's reno-ing my late cat-hoarding aunt's house, after evicting her 12 cats...

Sounds like you're getting ready to O to me. I try not to get bogged down in the terminology, but just use terminology consistently each cycle that makes sense to me, KWIM? All of the below IME, and based on what I think is typical. ...

The blue tests are bad about those shadowy evap lines. ITA with the pp - have her retest with her first urine in the a.m., with a pink test (First Response Early is good.) If her line's that faint, I'm guessing a digital will be neg...

That's the kind of question that causes me to give people "the look." You know, the "did you really just say that?" look that is vaguely reminiscent of how one would regard something nasty on one's shoe. I don't say...

I wear the Medela underwire (40H) and haven't had clogged duct/mastitis issues with it except one wearing when I wore a bra for ~24 h straight. Bad idea, that. Otherwise, no problems, and the girls are well-supported.

Average blood volume is about 100 ml/kg in neonates (based on my sources.) So the average term newborn would have 300-400 ml of blood.

Tandem breastfeeding is the only way to fly, imho. I found that anything that introduced more artificial nipples into my babies' lives was ultimately detrimental to our breastfeeding. (When I did supplement when they were tiny, I fed...

I just wouldn't sign the thing altogether, personally. In a true, life-threatening emergency, they'll take care of your child regardless. In urgent situations (where care should be started before you can get there but lives aren't at...

I've never liked fondant (have probably had the gross pre-made stuff) so you all with the marshmallow fondant recipes, get to posting them! My dds have their 1st birthday in a month! OP, awesome cake. WTG!