DDCers -- Oversupply/Overactive Letdown Anyone?
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Eye Color and Finger Nails
<p>Two Quick Questions:</p> <p>When does eye color usually change?</p> <p> </p> <p>And, do you clip baby's finger nails? If so, how?</p> <p>I...
View ArticleDry Climate / Bloody nose? (Update after pedi visit)
<p>Anyone live in a dry climate and have an infant with a bloody nose. I noticed some brown streaks in DS' spit up last week and thought it might have been some dried blood. DH dismissed...
View ArticleSucessful HBAC 15 months & 1 week after c/s (photo added in post 32)
<p>Seth Andrew was born at 1:24am local time at home.</p> <p> </p> <p>We had only 9 1/2 hours labor total, including 20min to push him out, even though he had a nucal...
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Emerging Butterfly had her baby!
<p>Baby Alicia Venus is here and all are doing well! Sarah sends her love to all </p>
View ArticlePost Pregnancy Exercise Thread
<p>I hope it's not too soon to start this thread! There were of few of us who seemed interested in the mamas with babies thread.</p> <p> </p> <p>I've already lost 23lbs,...
View Articlewgat is the longest stretch of sleep you've had since giving birth?
<p>I had a two night/day labor with no sleep - and since then I think the longest I got was 3 hours.....</p>
View ArticleEmerging butterfly...impatent!!!
Hi ladies...today is my due date, and I am at a neighbors because our internet is still down...and looks like it will be down for a week more at least. blah. However...I couldnt stay away and so...
View Articlemamas with babies
<p>I guess there are enough of us now to start a thread about life with baby. How's it going?</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>DS2 is 9 days old and it's going....
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Tell me about your boobs :)
<p>As you know, I've had a tough time with recurrent mastitis. The last bout was on the right boob even though the other times it was the left. This hurt the most and my boob was flaming red,...
View ArticleBaby boy is finally here!
<p>Baby boy Wylie Erwin is now home! He was born September 12 at 3:43 am under a full moon. We had a natural birth at the hospital that couldn't have gone better. At 9lb 7 oz and 20 1/2 in....
View ArticleAaaah, Postpartum Lovin' !?!
<p>whos feelin' it and whos not? <span><img alt="partners.gif" src="http://files.mothering.com/images/smilies/partners.gif"> OR </span> <span><img...
View ArticleMy girls are here!
<p>Maya Lilac and Ella Lily, 7lb, 2oz, and 7lb 8oz, were born two minutes apart via c-section on Wednesday August 10th. They were both so healthy and have taken to nursing incredibly well! We...
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"good enough" parenting - older dc plus baby
DS is 2.5 weeks, I have help, but still it seems like things are so much busier this time when I still need to care for, entertain, guide, and just have patience for DD (4)! I feel like I'm doing a...
View Articleheartburn and reflux connection?
<p>So I just thought I would share our experiences in case any one else out there has something similar going on.<br><br> My DD had been spitting up large amounts after every...
View ArticleBaby not gaining weight.
I am devastated. And shocked. I just sat and bawled my eyes out when I saw his weight. He was 9.5 at birth. At 4 days after birth, he weighed 9.3. Diaper was on (dry) and it was NOT the same scale as...
View ArticleC/S ladies, how are you recovering?
<p>Wow, this recovery has thrown me for a loop! I can't believe there is such a thing as "elective" c/s... who would choose this?!!</p> <p> </p> <p>When I think back to...
View ArticleHow do you cosleep?
<p>Just curious...</p> <p> </p> <p>Do you put the baby on your chest and sleep on your back all night? On your side with baby on his back next to you? On your side with...
View ArticlePictures of our babes as they grow
<p>Is there a central thread somewhere that I missed where we can just swoon over all the adorable babies that have arrived so far?</p> <p> </p> <p>If so feel free to...
View ArticleAre you vaccinating?
<p>I know about the vaccination forum, but I was curious what my DDC peeps were doing?</p> <p> </p> <p>I am leaning towards no vax, but am most concerned with pertussis....
View ArticleChildbirth Ed Class Worth it?
<p>Hi Ladies,</p> <p>Sorry to crash your DDC, but I'm in the Jan DDC and preparing to teach my first childbirth education series before I give birth again myself. Part of the reason...
View ArticleEmerging Butterfly and Alicia Venus update!!!
Oh ladies...how hard it has been to have to take a break away from my supportive friends online...but oh....how wonderful it has been to have a beautiful little girl in arms. I only have a...
View Articletalk to me about your "let-down"
<p>sometimes i think that i have never had a normal let down. this is the third babe i have nursed.....and yet, i still don't know what the let down is supposed to be like.</p> <p>...
View ArticleSoft spot/fontanelle question
<p>Does your baby's soft spot sometimes seem more sunken in? Elliott's is sometimes super noticeable especially when he's upright. Lots of poops and pees so I don't think he's dehydrated....
View ArticleHow Do You Like Your Cloth?
<p>I noticed a bunch of us are already diving into cloth and I thought we could share what dipes we're using, how we like them, why, etc.</p> <p> </p> <p>So far, I've...
View ArticlePUPPS
<p>Sigh.</p> <p>Yeah, I've got PUPPS. Just started in the last two or so days, though, so it just looked to me like I needed to wash my sheets or something Rashy under belly, rashy...
View ArticleOur Social Group is Here!
<p> </p> <p id="user_yui_3_4_0_15_1315427573774_40" style="padding-bottom:2px;">Here is our new Social Group!!</p> <p id="user_yui_3_4_0_15_1315427573774_41"...
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Allergy? Reflux? Hindmilk issue? (x posted)
<p>I posted this in Breastfeeding Challenges, but I am wondering if any of my fellow August Mamas has any insight? We've got greenish, mucousy poops and a fussy baby...</p>...
View ArticleSudden, sharp, sometimes severe thigh pain?
<p>I've been having occasional trouble with this in the front and side of one thigh for a while, and have tried warmth and massaging it, myself, to little avail. There's usually some tenderness...
View ArticleFirst Post Partum Period Poll
So my doctor thinks I may be getting my first period. Yeah....at 5 1/2 weeks....SERIOUSLY?! My bleeding trickled down to pretty much brown spotting until a couple days ago when it turned bright red,...
View Articlestarving
<p>Anyone else even hungrier than while pregnant? i am constantly eating and hungry - nursing plus trying to function on no sleep makes me HUNGRY!!!!</p>
View ArticleThis DDC will be closing
<p>Hello All! This DDC will be closing in 48 hours. It will be archived and still available for reading.</p> <p> </p> <p>You have a social group set up already here:...
View ArticleAugust 2011
<p id="user_yui_3_3_0_7_1312949007238114" style="text-align:center;">Forum Moderator: <a href="http://www.mothering.com/community/user/to-fu">To-Fu</a></p> <p...
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One large baby shower or two smaller ones...
<p>So I'm very fortunate to have a mess of people wanting to throw me showers. Everyone is so happy for me. They know how long I had to wait to have this little one and they are all genuinely...
View ArticlePregnancy Dreams ??? Do Tell!!!
Pregnancy dreams are driving me crazy. Not only are they weird, but sometimes they are downright creepy. I realize I am dealing with trauma from losing my twins 2 years ago...but, honestly, I just...
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