Posts by EviesMom

Quote: Originally Posted by AlexisT  Have you looked into bottle-nursing? I did that with my dd when we couldn't BF. I would snuggle up with her on the couch and FF like that, with her all tucked up in my arm, close...

I don't hold your viewpoint at all, but in your shoes, I would let the kids go and not go myself. I can't think of any positive aspect to you chaperoning a trip you're opposed to. 

Can you do something else in the room so you don't feel trapped but he has company? Your husband could do that as well. If he's fine being in bed alone, he just takes forever to fall asleep, can you sit in the room and knit, or read,...

Personally, I think too much is made of sleeping issues, but that could be because I never had very dramatic sleep problems. Pretty much nothing from when they're under a year or maybe even two years is going to be a lasting routine or...

Quote: Originally Posted by physmom  DH still needs to do the trick where your pointer finger and thumb form an "L" shape on your left hand not your right.  It took me years to learn that one...

I don't think anyone's ever said anything to me other than when talking about me. I suppose they will someday when my youngest weans at last! I would just say "I believe a woman should nurse for as long, or as short, a time as she...

I have a gifted, dyslexic kid, which isn't a surprise at all given her family background.... hm, well maybe except for the fact that she's a girl and it's been boys who were diagnosed thus far. The girls managed to fly under the radar...

DD didn't sleep soundly as a baby or toddler, but now as a schoolage kid, she at least gets herself back to sleep! Or entertains herself by reading, as I discovered when she started describing the sunrise out her window one morning....

  I don't want to get into the diaper/paci/"still nursing" debate at all except to say that it seems common for kids to identify anything they have given up recently as "babyish" for a little while. My son only potty trained at...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dandelionkid  Seriously? Side-walk chalk?? That is so messed up if it bothers people. We had a neighbor wash it off of the sidewalk in front of his house. I just can't imagine...