Posts by mamadiamond

my colostrum came in about 20 weeks with dd and by 6 months i had to wear nursing pads all the time. you don't *need* to pump it ahead, since you'll make plenty for your baby when it is born, but i strongly doubt pumping will start...

everyone's projects are beautiful! i really wish i could knit. i can finally jumb in here, because i've finally finished some projects and have a good start on a few more. i got sidetracked from crochet for a while with sewing baby...

oh, i know i was doing too much. my husband had 10 days off work, and my mom was there during some of that time, but then she had to go home and he had to go to work. and i've got a two story apartment so even to get from bed to...

just dropped back into this thread because i found a 12" binder - i think it is from medela or LLL, but i'll have to go try to find the link again - rather than most of them which are 9". found it on amazon. good for us longer torso-ed...

i have 7 *so far*. i have a full color half sleeve on my left arm of a william blake painting. he's one of my favorite artists, and it's from his illustrated poem version of the biblical book of job. his work, and that book, have had a...

18.2 weeks. looks like the photo uploader has changed. i hope in the post it shows up bigger...just looks like a thumbnail no matter what size i select to upload.

i really would not worry unless you start to get other weird stuff going on. with my dd (first pregnancy) once my stomach muscles started to separate/let go at about 5 months i started to get crazy and sometimes quite painful braxton...

my bh are sometimes quite painful. especially with this pregnancy. been woken up at night a few times. for me, bh feel exactly like real contractions, just shorter and don't get closer together as time goes on. the rule of thumb is if...

with all those kiddos running around, how are parenting decisions made? is it the group of parents decides for all the kids, or each biological parent decides for their own kids, or a mix?

at the risk of sounding really ignorant - how on earth can it be safe to have decomposing tissue attached to the baby? my dd's stump didn't fall off till 11 days pp. an 11 day old placenta would be rotting, no matter if salt was put on...