Posts by Roxswood

You could give it to her frozen (let it go mushy and give it to her in a bowl with a spoon and tell her its ice cream). Some of the immune properties are destroyed by freezing but it is still going to be the gentlest food on her stomach...

My grandparents used the withdrawal method as their only form of birth control their whole marriage and only had two children, both planned and both times she got pregnant the first month of trying so it can be effective. Its very...

DD got her first two teeth and 5 months, then had 14 teeth by 14 months and 16 teeth by 16 months and all 20 by 20 months. She HATES having her teeth brushed and we've just noticed one front tooth is looking a bit decayed but I'm doing...

Bizarrely the JAA (European equivalent of FAA) will not allow children under two to ride in carseats when the seatbelt sign is illuminated, they must be in their parents lap with a seperate seatbelt that attaches to the parents belt....

Don't tetanus spores live in soil, so the spores can survive allsorts of conditions but the tetanus can not breed in the presence of oxygen. Sorry if thats inaccurate, just recalling high school biology

Correct me if I'm wrong (please) but I read recently that if you don't vaccinate until after 18 - 24 months (I think) that your child only "needs" one dose rather than the course of three that a younger baby "needs"....

I'm not sure really, I certainly questioned them before dd was born, but went ahead with the first series anyway, although I did delay them and instead of 8 - 12 and 16 week timeslots she had them at 4, 7 and 9 months as I felt she was a...

I've never been totally convinced about the safety of painkillers but I do give them to my dd when she absolutely can't sleep because of teething pain but its only ever one dose in 24 hours so way less than the recommended upper limit. I...

My dd stopped needing a nap most days at around 20 months. I found if she napped in the day she would be climbing the walls until at least 10pm whereas if she didn't nap she would be grumpy from about 5pm but would fall asleep promptly...

Just a suggestion about learning to write, a friend of mine has a son who is a real perfectionist and gets frustrated because he can't make his letters look perfect right away. Anyway she has found that he stays interested much longer...