Posts by sweetpeasmom

I agreee your MIL can go shut her head in a book Anyways my dd started reading at 2. I did nothing really to push her, she just did it. I honestly didn't do anything out of the ordinary afterwoods, we just continued reading books...

Yeah feeding issues were the big thing for me too. You really have to be persistant, vocal and express your concern to who's ever in charge. I think by 35 wks mine was taking everything by bottle and she was even a 25 wker and she did...

A nurse told me when I refused the hep b vax for my baby, that I could get hep b while shopping by touching the shopping cart and that how easy it was to catch (but yet she never asked if i was vaxed for hep b

We haven't done anything really. Just play, do some crafts and lots of reading. I really left it up to her. We do lots of playgroups and go to the park and just have fun! In the meantime while having lots of fun, she's learned a whole...

it's hard not to worry. Mine was less than that at that age, I think about 17 lbs or so. My ped and neonatal doctor both didn't have concerns at all with her growth. She was growing just very slowly. She's now 3 and about 25 lbs, very...

nope not paranoid at all. I think I may have been just a tad paranoid a few mths after she came home but I gradually reverted back to my non paranoid about germs way.

Yes, it often irks me when someone calls a 37+ a preemie. I'm like ok everything was fine and you took baby home you and that constitues a preemie? I think not. I myself had a 36 wker for my first and I never even called her a preemie....

with my first pregnancy, it was a girl and my dh was a vegan too. after that pregnancy i wasn't vegan anymore and ended up w/girl 2nd time too.

We had success here. I ep for 9 mths and finally got her to the breast at 9 mths, although she was only 5 1/2 mths adjusted age (she was a preemie) at the time she took to my breast. I really didn't do anything special, just had patience...

No I never got them for her especially because she was a preemie. She had already been through so much, I just couldnt' justify injected her with any amount of toxins. I really believe myself that the flu shot is just not so great for...