Posts by sallyrae17

Monkeyscience - I'm starting to think that my daughter has an upper lip tie. My son was tongue tied and now my daughter has the upper lip (what are the odds, huh?). What exactly did it look like?    This is what Baby M's...

Quote: Originally Posted by LilyTiger  My friend (and former next door neighbor) is my gestational buddy.  Our due dates were two days apart and we delivered two days apart exactly one week late for the both of...

I definitely have a lot to be thankful for as well. My pregnancy was also a surprise, but only because I had a miscarriage and D&C the month before. I didn't think I would successfully get pregnant the following month! My daughter...

We have a super talkative and mobile baby here! Baby M is constantly experimenting with different sounds and she's rolling all over the place. I left her in the middle of the playmat on her back and came back to her still on her back,...

I had my son's frenulum clipped about 2 days after he was born and I didn't notice anything at all. He cried for a second and then I breastfed him and that was that. He was definitely younger than 3 months, though. The "surgery"...

Baby M is a hotdog, I'm the supervillian Poison Ivy and my son is Spiderman. :) 

Quote: Originally Posted by Tizzy  Gilbert is super close to rolling over, mostly when he's gnawing on his hands.  I don't know if the cloth diaper assists or inhibits this progress :) If you put him down...

As far as logistics go with breastfeeding an older kid, it gets interesting. They get mobile and will want to eat, then run away, then come back, then get distracted again. Or...they want to nurse when you are in line at the grocery...

Lily - My son breastfed every two hours until about 2 1/2 years old (that included at night). He nightweaned at 2 1/2 and then only really breastfed before naps/bedtime and in the morning. The hardest one to stop was the morning...

My goal is to breastfeed for two years, but will definitely go until my child is done. I breastfed my other child until he was two weeks shy of his third birthday - and he self weaned.