Posts by Ocean

I will admit that I don't know too much about WIC specifically, but most goverment programs that provide benefits to people who can't provide for themselves and/or their children are on the lookout for medical problems and child abuse. ...

If your ds is not drinking anything out of a cup, I think that issue needs to be resolved regardless of whether you continue to pump. In other words, I wouldn't use that as a basis to stop pumping necessarily. At one, your ds is...

I can totally relate to hating the pump. I pumped until about 17 months. Unfortunately for me, shortly thereafter my supply totally stopped, so we have very recently weaned at 18 months. Other than the occasional bottle of ebm she had...

I stopped pumping when my dd was 16 or 17 months old. About a month before, we had nightweaned, so I continued to pump once a day so that my supply would not totally drop. We nursed twice a day, right before bed and first thing in the...

When I found out I was pregnant, my dh and bought our first home. It's turned out to be a mixed blessing. I love owning our home, but it's incredibly expensive -- more than double the rent at our last apartment. A few months after we...

That routine sounds pretty familiar. When my dd (now 18 months) was your baby's age, I would nurse dd in bed around 5:30 (although often I was up way before this because she was not a good night sleeper), take a shower, get dressed, get...

I know exactly what you mean. I've read many of your other posts, and it sometimes seems like we are living parallel lives. After I finished my judicial clerkship, I saw all my co-clerks going on to great jobs that pay much better than...

My dd is almost 17 months old, and I've recently really cut back on nursing. I am still pumping once a day. I'm doing it to try to keep up my supply because I am away from dd for 11 hours a day and I just recently night-weaned. I have...

I'm sorry to hear you are going through such a tough time! To me, this should not be a debate about whether smoking pot is a good or bad thing or whether it should or should not be legal. This is about your husband engaging in...

I guess I'm the sole person who voted "no." When I was pregnant, I thought I would make my own baby food at least some of the time, but in reality I only tried once. It took a long time and dd refused to eat any of it. ...