Posts by BusyBeeMom

Quote: Originally Posted by MusicianDad An age might help. It's hard to adress the issue of dawdling if you don't know if a child is 4 or 8 or 10. Younger children don't always understand time the same way adults or...

Just got one off freecycle...no manual, no idea how to use it! Any ideas? Thanks!

I'm making chicken soup tonight - w/carrots, onions, celery, and chicken meat. Would it be good if I cooked sweet potato in it too? Or should I just bake them on the side? I also have an acorn squash? What do the soup experts think? ...

There are several threads on this if you can search. Ultimately, it did not work out for me, and I was generally unhappy w/the experience. I had au pairs from the time DD was 18 months and I was pregnant w/DS to the time DD was just...

Generally, my experience with au paris was NOT positive. I have several, over about 2 years. The best of them were: 1. A competent young woman with excellent childcare skills and a decent work ethic. She was extremely unpleasant...

Honestly, don't expect, or look for problems. I may be the exception, but in 3.5 years of nursing, I've gotten precious few questions/comments, and no one really cared all that much, aside from other longer-term nursers who were really...

I have ADHD, am nursing, and a student. In terms of ritalin, I would be pretty wary about letting this into your baby's system. The effects in babies are not well-studied. What is well understood is how it is metabolized in your...

Before totally weaning, I would take some steps to try to make nursing more tolerable for you. First, I would nightwean. Dr. Jay Gordon has a process that worked well for me w/DD. If she's nursing every 2-3 hours overnight,...

So, imagine your friend is the SM. And she was bummed about the non-mother's day stuff, but things in the family generally seem pretty good, people are getting along, etc. Would it be way out of line to casually mention to Dad (who is...

Hi, I have a question about blended family life (I'm a single mom, but no blending as of yet, this is regarding a friend's family). If a child (about 10 yrs old) lives w/dad and stepmom, and the child/stepmom have a generally positive...