yes time flies, Suzanne, I just ordered some of your wonderful pads for my eldest daughter, as I think her time is coming soon!! oh the tears about anything and everything, that build into these major life disasters, questioning your purpose in life, your self-worth, your beauty, your position in the family, ANYTHING really, just to get those tears flowing... anyone have any advice for anything that will make this transition easier for her? homeopathic remedies, naturopathic treatments or supplements, dietary suggestions.... is 11 too young for red wine and chocolate? ;-) she is the biggest baby about pain, I foresee a lot of crampy, sleepless nights in our future... I myself had TERRIBLE cramps before having kids, and those 4 or 5 hours where your uterus is working really hard to expel everything always struck in the middle of the night -- I had to sleep sitting up once a month for years, so that gravity could do it's job... lucy will absolutely whine and cry through all of this though, so I suppose we will be forced to break out the OTC pain relief here and there, but if anyone has any natural remedies to prevent awful cramping, I'd love to hear them!
thanks lori, for starting a new thread! I was just thinking the other day how facebook has altered this group to a fairly large degree... I rarely come on mdc anymore, outside of checking this thread and the adoption forum. I suppose that's life, though, we've sort of moved on from most of the other forums here... though HEY! I can share this with this group (yay!)... rosie has been somewhat in love with my boobies for a few months now, and if I'm shirtless around the newbies, I suddenly feel like they should really be offering me dollar bills, for all the adoration, but I let her hug and kiss them (I try to keep this activity away from Zach, because I'm less comfortable with the same behavior with him, and he has to have EVERYTHING rosie has -- I do let him put his face on my bare stomach, on my bare chest (he does love to bury his face in my chest, but he's less inclined to really take notice when my shirt is off... unless he saw rosie doing it, then he'd have to do it too) and try to get as much skin-to-skin contact with him as possible. Rosie, however, just in the last few days, has been coming up to me when I'm sitting or laying down, wanting to climb up on me and saying "boobie?" and wanting me to pull them out so she can hug and kiss them, and today she actually opened her mouth to nurse for a second! I just follow her lead with this -- I'm almost positive she hasn't nursed since she was a month old (or maybe never, we have no idea who had her prior to her being found around a month old) but it's such an instinctive thing, I'm blown away! She ran up to me today with her arms up saying "boobie?" and it just cracked me up, such a flashback to raising my first two toddlers! I don't think I'll induce lactation again, it's really hard on my body and who knows if she'd really actively nurse anyway, but I may see if I can get my hands on an SNS or lactaid (anyone have one they want to give/loan me?) and see if she goes for it. If she DID, I might relactate at that point... she's 22 months exactly, so I don't know if I want to go through the whole relactation process, but it's so sweet that she wants that connection with me, and I'm into making it happen on whatever level works for her... and zach too, if he catches wind and wants to try, but it's sometimes strange to go along with the level of intimacy he craves -- just not sure exactly where the boundaries *should* be, and what might be inciting strange memories and associations for him.... silly to worry about, I know, but try to imagine nursing your friend's 4 year old for a moment... I nursed both of my first two kids until they were 4, but I don't want to instigate anything that will make him feel strange. If he takes the lead, I'll go with it -- adopted kiddos often regress, and regression is a good thing, actually, I just don't really want to enter the realm of the two of them, who already fight over every resource (including me), fighting over nursing, just because the other one is doing it...
yay for spring coming!!!!
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