Posts by Parker'smommy

yes, count it.! She said a word for an object for the first time :) 

My 9 year old was breastfed till he was 3 and he doesn't remember. My 6 year old JUST weaned 2 years ago at age 4 and she has already forgotten. I was hoping she would remember. 

I was frustrated like you because dd seemed to WANT to suck her fingers/thumb, but just couldn't get it organized to do so and SHE was so frustrated. I would try to help her, and it would make her even madder! FINALLY, at 4 1/2 months...

It sounds like it will go just fine. :) This is the way we got our dd to sleep on her own too. It was VERY gradual...VERY. When we moved her out of our bed, dh laid down with her in her bed for a few weeks. Then, he started sitting in...

There are Sleep alarms on the market. One of my friend's has one...Halo is the brand, I believe. Dr. Jim Sears talked about it on his show, The Doctors, too. It is small and attatches to the diaper. It detects all movement. If there...

Yes, most babies will have their interest in solids wane and increase with no reason...even into toddlerhood. Just go with it.... :) He's getting breastmilk so you should have no worries about any nutritional gaps, kwim?! Just keep...

Yep...totally varies. And it also depends on the child, if they will nurse without milk or not. I lost my milk in all of my pregnancies at 4 months. And my kids nursed right through it all without milk. Not having milk wasn't a...

It sounds like nipple preference to me. They like the bottle's flow and while they may nurse to put off hunger, they prefer the bottle, and wait for it. It almost sounds like that after the initial letdown, where the milk comes down...

roll over? huh. My ped. said that is a 4month milestone. I know because she couldn't then. She still doesn't really at 7 months old. My ped. is not concerned. 

In my experience with my own children, their eye color seemed to "settle" by 1 month old. Ds' eyes were bright blue at birth though and they stayed that color. BUT....they are now changing now, many years later. They started changing...