Posts by chiedza

Thanks, everyone, for sharing your experiences! For now I'll keep pumping at the end of the day but I think after he turns 1 I'll ask her to see how he does with water or some other type of (non-animal) milk.

Thank you, Lauren!  

Quote: Originally Posted by JudiAU  I pumped until my first was 18m because he wasn't doing well with solids. He was avid nurser and he self-weaned within a month. It just utterly crashed my supply to not have pumping...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren    I'm not sure what maos did, but my babies all liked a little of that cereal for babies (earth's best) and I would use breastmilk to mix with it. I do...

Quote: Originally Posted by maos211  I was still sending BM until about 2 yrs old. Even he didn't drink it all I made you they knew to keep it refrigerated so I could use it at home. When I stopped I went to goats milk. (...

DS started daycare at 10 months old and will be 1 year old in a few weeks. I pump 6-8 oz when I'm at work and send about 7-8 oz with him each day, but he usually only drinks 4 or so.  His caregiver says he just doesn't seem...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren  So I found with my own kids and for many other kids as well, that one of the emotional issues that comes with walking is the awareness of mobility--for the child himself as well as...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren  I think it is easy to forget (in the AP world) that attachment is really about attunement--listening to your own particular baby, not doing things the way everyone else is doing...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren  It may be the co-sleeping and it may not. I had three cosleeping babies in child care and they all slept fine at child care, in cribs. Both providers said the babies just seemed to...

Quote: Originally Posted by nextcommercial  I would just offer to help her troubleshoot.  She's expressing to you in the nicest way possible, that he's more work for her than the other kids.  You can let her...