Posts by majormajor

supervee! of course, what was i thinking!

thanks preggieuba2c, that's a great idea! totally didn't occur to me, but i think that might really help. i think she's just really curious about them because they're hidden all the time, and she never gets to get a really close look....

well, DD and i decided to wean just a few days before she turned two (long story short, she was down to nursing every other day or so for months and my nipples lost their toughness. when she stopped nursing and said "i'm too big to...

one of my close friends (and a mom role model to me) nursed 2 of her children to 4.5 years, through nursing strikes and everything else. her first self-weaned at 6 months. i asked her in detail about it (whether she thought it was really...

no, this forum didn't affect our decision to vaccinate mostly on schedule. it did help me understand more of the anti-vax position/s, which are philosophically often pretty far from mine. doesn't mean i don't enjoy the forum though! i...

i can't believe i'm posting this on a public message board. the things we'll do for our kids! ok, so my DD is 2. she first noticed my friend's son's penis when she was about 14 months old. my friend explained briefly that it was a...

we got DD the vit K shot and will for the next one too. what made up my mind was that there are proven benefits and no identified risks, in spite of a great deal of research into the shot. (the leukemia link has been much studied and...

i'll chime in just because i came to the opposite conclusion--no HBAC for me. even though the risk of uterine rupture is very, very low, it's outside of my comfort zone to labor without an OR in the same building and continuous EFM. i...

hey there, i also understand how you feel. it's somewhat different for me, because i had a c-section (cord was around her neck but there were HR problems, and finally her HR dropped and didn't come back up). i tried reading some...

as far as pain relief, i got an epidural and got 100% pain relief. i'm told i got a REALLY good anesthesiologist : the epidural was an easy choice in DD's labor--it was that in place, or general anesthesia for the emergency section...