Posts by CaliforniaMommy

My 8-month old daughter hasn't pooped in 8 days now... She is exclusively bf, and we only just started solids a couple weeks ago (avocados and green beans), but she didn't like them, and I can't say that she even swallowed any of it....

How about telephone cords? The ones that go to the wall, and the ones that attach the handset to the base? Are they also toxic? Anyone knows?

We are getting ready to graduate our 7-mo old baby girl from her co-sleeper to a crib next to our bed, for the first few hours of each night. Some friends gave us a crib that included an older mattress. I do not know how old it is,...

Funny enough, we hadn't planned on co-sleeping with our baby girl before she was born (now 7 months old), but it soon became the easy, natural and nicest way to sleep. I usually bring her into bed from her co-sleeper for her middle of...

In response to: "where in california are you?" I live in Santa Barbara, on the Central Coast.

Hi there, I guess I'll introduce myself here... I grew up in France, but have been living in the US for the past 17 years. After being together for 14 years, my partner and I decided to expand our family. We welcomed our first...

Interesting comment about pools from DINAHX... Hmmm... We actually have her signed up for a mommy-and-me swimming lessons starting next month (4 babies at a time), as we want her to get used to water and swim early. Now, this makes me a...

So, we had our 6th month appt today, and we decided to not vaccinate our little girl yet. We will postpone it at least until she's 1 year old, when we re-evaluate our decision. I anticipate that we'll maintain the same decision. We...

Thank you all for the good advice. I appreciate it. We've pretty much decided to delay all vaccination until at least she's one year old. So, no vaccination for my little girl this coming Friday. We will re-evaluate when she's one year...

Hi, This is my very first post to this forum... So glad I found it... I've been agonizing over whether to vaccinate my little baby girl or not. I already know that I won't give her some of them, but I'm not sure about Hib, Prevnar,...