Posts by PatioGardener

It's really common (and normal) for baby to cluster feed in the evening. It's baby's way of increasing your supply. You might want to stop the evening bottle and just feed baby at the breast ALL EVENING LONG (it seems sooooooooooo long...

Sounds like a milk blister... http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/nipplebleb.html

Quote: Originally Posted by SilverMoon010  I agree.  I do not want to give my baby a supplement at this stage either.  I don't feel comfortable with that.   I assume because your...

Mine is 21 months old and we nurse in public still. Last week it was the grocery store, this week the hospital . He doesn't often ask when we are out and about, but if he does, we nurse.

Here are my thoughts...   I live up north too (Canada) and I know that most Canadians have low vit D levels. We just can't get enough sunlight to make enough vit D, and very few of us eat a traditional northern vit D rich diet...

I had to resort to using a cold washcloth on my sleepy newborn. My midwife was worried about his weight loss. I woke him by stripping him down to his diaper (and I was topless) and then putting a cool cloth in his back.   As...

Quote: Originally Posted by Triniity  It´s going okay beastfeedingwise. she reached 4 kg now, ped is happy, and i am not pumping anymore, just bfing.   Awesome news! Well done!  

I second growth spurt - your milk supply is likely the same, but baby is eating more ready to pack on some pounds.   Hope that's the case!

Yay!

I had to cut out dairy and soy, but wheat, nuts, chocolate etc were fine. It took some adjusting to get enough calories without the dairy, but it was doable. Once my little one was ~6 months old he did OK if I had a reasonable (not...