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BlessedMamaofmany -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 8:00:51 AM)

Hooray Sideways! Sleep rules LOL
Horray Yolanda! How nice to feel good about your goal!

Isaiah is getting past the eat-then-puke-up-everything-he-just-ate-and-then-cry-because-he's-hungry stage. It's quite nice.



Room2Grow -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 9:07:00 AM)

Yolanda- way to go! Date nights are great- glad you are doing well!



firefightermama -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 12:09:12 PM)

How long do you guys say you can keep breastmilk stored in the fridge? I've read 3 days, 6 days, and 8 days... I don't really know, since I haven't found anything that said the same as something else I've read.



Mrs.X -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 12:52:16 PM)

we did 6 days.....seemed to be just fine.



paulsbride -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 1:29:12 PM)

Judah has seemed 'flushed' since yesterday - maybe a rash, though I am not sure. His face and back seem to be a bit red.
I wouldn't be overly concerned about that except he had two red spots on his wrist/arm yesterday, and one of them now looks different - it has 'something else' in the center of it.
I immediately think of chicken pox, but Paul said it could just be a bug bite...
*sigh*

I tried getting a picture of it to show all the expert mommies, but it didn't turn out too well. HERE is the picture of the red spots today. The top one is the one that has changed.

What do y'all think?



manda59 -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 1:40:19 PM)

Bug bite.

That cut on your finger looks a bit nasty though - or is it a pen mark?



paulsbride -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 1:49:09 PM)

Thanks :)

No, it's a cut on my finger. I am not sure what I cut it on, the cut kind of just appeared! I don't remember cutting myself. Probably a paper cut.



Room2Grow -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 2:47:52 PM)

I don't think it's pox either- plus, it would be very rare to appear there first...



PrudentWife -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 3:55:11 PM)

Looks like a non-poisonous bug bite or a harmless scratch to me.



paulsbride -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 3:57:50 PM)

[&o]

As silly as I feel for having asked and it being nothing it really does make me feel better to know you all think it looks like a bug bite. thanks



Mrs.X -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 5:46:09 PM)

I think it's awesome you took a picture of it and showed us! Looks like bug bites to me.



nicole6598 -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 6:28:46 PM)

Yolanda that is great news! You are doing a wonderful job!!

Nathy was 4 weeks old yesterday, he is such a good boy, he sleeps about 4-5 hours straight at night between feeds for me!! WOO HOO



W.O.F. -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 8:01:01 PM)

I agree that it is only a bug bit. chickenpox get more fluid filled..and once you see one...you can't mistake it for anything else...

It looks like he may have scratched the top off of it...probably with his little baby nails...those things are so sharp...no matter how short you keep them!



Sideways -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 10:14:09 PM)

Tell me about it. Nathan grabs onto my breast during nursing, and my right breast is looking a little scary.

But at nearly 7 months we're back to exclusive nursing for a little bit. He's been rejecting solid foods for a few days, even foods he normally loves. Seems he has a bit of the stomach bug and mommy has the puke-smelling shirts to prove it.

Our pediatrician says to lay off solids and just nurse for a while, as long as he can keep breast milk down. Poor fellow - and here we thought at first he was simply having a food intolerance.



dramagirl4God -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 10:47:24 PM)

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ORIGINAL: W.O.F.

I agree that it is only a bug bit. chickenpox get more fluid filled..and once you see one...you can't mistake it for anything else...

It looks like he may have scratched the top off of it...probably with his little baby nails...those things are so sharp...no matter how short you keep them!

yep, this is pretty much the exact progression of thoughts I had.



paulsbride -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/22/2007 11:02:47 PM)

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Tell me about it. Nathan grabs onto my breast during nursing, and my right breast is looking a little scary.


Judah has started pinching my nipples when he sees them - in the shower or if I am not wearing anything when nursing. It's not really a game I don't think - he doesn't laugh or do it to try to make me laugh (or cry!) I think he just "knows" them and maybe wants to say hi?! [8|] I don't try to understand how he thinks... but pinched nipples hurt!



PrincessDonna -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/23/2007 12:01:06 AM)

Nip that one in the bud, Jessica (pun intended[8D]). Hannah still tries to grab me.[>:]



PrudentWife -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/23/2007 5:13:51 AM)

(((Sideways & Nathan)))

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I think he just "knows" them and maybe wants to say hi?! I don't try to understand how he thinks... but pinched nipples hurt!


Reagan does this too. Sometimes when I pick her up, and we're walking, she grab a nipple like she is holding on [&:] Especially at this point in the pregnancy where I seem to have headlights most of the time.



isaacsmom -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/23/2007 10:40:51 PM)

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ORIGINAL: paulsbride

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Tell me about it. Nathan grabs onto my breast during nursing, and my right breast is looking a little scary.


Judah has started pinching my nipples when he sees them - in the shower or if I am not wearing anything when nursing. It's not really a game I don't think - he doesn't laugh or do it to try to make me laugh (or cry!) I think he just "knows" them and maybe wants to say hi?! [8|] I don't try to understand how he thinks... but pinched nipples hurt!


Isabel does this, too. [8|] Silly babies.



Sideways -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 8:56:17 AM)

So, I read in one of the Parenting threads that the worldwide average age for weaning is age four. Has anyone else heard this? Are there statistics out there somewhere for typical BFing times in other countries?

I'm genuinely curious. Age four sounds pretty old for an average weaning time - I would buy age two if we're talking non-US countries, but not age four.

And though this isn't BFing - who in the world came up with the crazy idea that 5 hours of sleep is "sleeping through the night". Sounds like one of those idea like "all pregnancies last 40 weeks" - pulled out of thin air. I count 8 hours of sleep as sleeping through the night, although that hasn't happened much lately. For the first half of the night, Nathan was up every hour, on the hour. [&:] At least he slept straight through from 2am to 6am.

Unless your name is Prudent, most of us would like to have more than 4-5 hours of straight sleep. [8D] (I know we don't get it, but we'd like it.)



dramagirl4God -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 9:49:35 AM)

Sideways, I've heard that too. Not too sure of the accuracy, but I do know of several places where it's not uncommon to nurse to age 5. The reason that statistic sounds off is it says average, which mean that there have to be a lot of places who nurse past that age.



isaacsmom -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 10:02:24 AM)

I had heard that about the world average. I think that a big part of that average is in third world countries where nursing is a major form of nutrition until that age. I think early weaning is only most common in the U.S.



Sideways -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 10:40:36 AM)

Oh, indeed, I believe that many other countries wean later then we do. I know the World Health Organization recommends BFing until age 2. But an average age of weaning being four? That must mean that there's a whole lot of children still BFing at age 5, 6 and 7.

When you and the child can stand next to each other and be able to BF - I think it's time to put the breasts away. [8D]



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 11:55:14 AM)

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When you and the child can stand next to each other and be able to BF - I think it's time to put the breasts away.


In the US, I agree. But in third world countries where nutrition and food(and clean water) are lacking I can totally understand why they would continue to breastfeed to those ages. I think it weirds us out because we're used to 12 months being the "norm" for weaning.



PrudentWife -> RE: Got Mommy's Milk, Take 5 (10/24/2007 2:43:37 PM)

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But an average age of weaning being four? That must mean that there's a whole lot of children still BFing at age 5, 6 and 7.


I don't know how they come up with that statistic. But considering only about 10% of Americans & Candians nurse past 4 weeks, there would need to be TONS of kis nursing to 6 and 7 to make that average.

This says the 4 years isn't true.

LLL puts average weaning between 2 and 4 here.

But there were countless websites I found on a google search repeating the 4 year number. None said exactly how they came up with that, other than 'studies have shown....'



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