Posts by Lirazel

DS is 3.5 months and wakes up twice every night to eat. I have struggled with low supply and now things seem to be on track, but I certainly don't have much to spare - he needs everything I've got. His two best meals of the day are the...

Thanks all for the input... I was actually just asking out of curiosity since I hear the phrase a lot and wondered what it meant to different people. It's encouraging to hear that our schedule is pretty normal! I do know that he...

DS is three months old and eats around every hour and a half during the day rarely stretching to two hours and it's more like every hour or literally back and forth between bbs in the hours leading up to bedtime. (Nighttime is more like...

Well as I've looked around a little more I think the way one is supposed to handle it is to buy a capsule filling machine and fill your own capsules. It looks like you can get a small one for pretty cheap, but I haven't done it...

Not sure if it's the same thing, but this site has a recipe for mama's milk tea... http://www.bulkherbstore.com/MMT?s=fenugreek

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one! I do know that I'm not actually practicing CIO, but what bothers me is that *he* doesn't know it. He doesn't know that I'm not picking him up because I am unable to rather than that I'm just...

DS does not care much for the car. I always try to make sure he is well fed and changed before we go anywhere. He'll amuse himself for maybe 5-10 minutes but then gets fed up. If DH is with me and the ride will be longer than that...

DS is gaining about half an ounce per day. My midwife was fine with that, but we started going to his ped who says he needs to gain a full ounce or we should talk supplementation. I just brought him in to be weighed and he's still at...

Ah. Non-infectious mastitis. I guess I hadn't read enough about it to recognize it! Thanks for the link - I have some more options of what to do now!

About once a week I get engorged on my left side. I had thought that engorgement was just so much milk that you got super full and baby couldn't drink it all. What's happening to me is baby can drink for about 5 minutes and then it...