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Forum Post: Toddler won't drink milk
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Forum Post: Cheerio fear
Silver - We had an eval with a speech/swallowing specialist when DD was 8 months because of her inability to eat solids without gagging. She gave us some helpful tips, one of which was to tuck the so more »
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Forum Post: when did your children drop their AM naps?
DD is 13.5 months and is just starting to make the transition. She has gradually started going down later and later in the morning and has been fighting a later afternoon nap, often just grabbing a q more »
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Forum Post: October -- Infants & Toddlers
Thanks for the pep talks girls! After her one year visit I admittedly came away a bit overwhelmed (in part also due to finding out she has several allergies and also being sick myself so just overall more »
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Forum Post: October -- Infants & Toddlers
Congrats on #2 Luck! So exciting! So many updates & too many to comment on, but I'm totally in a similar boat as many of you with eating/coats/etc. DD just turned 12 months last week! Still no teet more »
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Forum Post: Baby only naps 30 mins at a time after a battle... anyone dealing with this?
He may naturally lengthen his naps as he gets older. Something that worked well for us was darkening the room for naps. I put a dark fleece blanket over the window which basically made it nighttime d more »
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Forum Post: Baby Monitor Recommendations
For those of you who have video monitors, do you find that the lights on the camera are bright in the room at night? I just bought one last night so that we can evaluate the cause of DD throwing up a more »
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Forum Post: August - Infants and Toddlers
Not as much stringy as...mealy maybe? There's definitely some texture to it. The fruit or veg purees help thin it out. I also add some water while pureeing which helps break it down more. It's ama more »
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Forum Post: The Baby Project
Poppy I was reading this last night while watching the game with DH, tears streaming down my face...he just looked at me & shook his head & laughed, now being completely used to my emotional outbursts more »
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Forum Post: August - Infants and Toddlers
Jan - glad the flight went off without a hitch! Just wanted to endorse making your own chicken. My DD still has no teeth at almost 11 months (of course we have been saying she's 'teething' for about more »
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Forum Post: Newton-Wellesley Ob's
Loved, loved the Midwives at Harvard Vanguard! My birth experience with them at NWH was awesome. I had a midwife by my side guiding the birth the entire 2 h 40 min I was pushing. She helped create more »
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Forum Post: Towns
Arlington is a great town in many ways (bike path, close to Camb/Boston, good people (I grew up there :)), but is not in two very important ways - house prices for what you get and schools. The schoo more »
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Forum Post: July - Infants and Toddlers
Luck - So your DD at 9 months is going under water when swimming?! That, to me, is amazing! I'd love to hear about how you got her to that point and more about her swim classes! I was thinking abou more »
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Forum Post: July - Infants and Toddlers
My DD at almost 10 months is also doing about 24 oz per day in either 4 or 5 bottles, depending on how early she wakes up. Am also wondering about dropping bottles and amounts going forward. Once the more »
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Forum Post: Pump in Style vs Freestyle
CT - I just posted about this on the pumping thread, but I definitely feel the output with the PIS is much better than the freestyle. I have both, but I still lug the PIS back and forth from home to more »
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Forum Post: Weaning
Fram, I don't like mixing BM and formula b/c if they don't finish the whole bottle, then the BM is wasted. There's nothing worse than having to dump hard earned BM!! more »
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Forum Post: which breast pump to buy?
I have some perspective on the Medela Freestyle versus the Pump in Style Advanced. I had bought the Freestyle before DD was born thinking I would need the hands free option when I went back to work. more »
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Forum Post: July - Infants and Toddlers
Hey all! Love to hear all about your little ones growing and changing so much! Things are great here, but not without new challenges all the time. DD is 9 months and so cute and awesome...but at ti more »
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Forum Post: July - Infants and Toddlers
If it makes you feel any better IPW, my DD at 9 months is doing the same kind of exploring as your DS! I do give her toys to occupy her hands but there have been some close calls! Also I will someti more »
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Forum Post: Weaning - the good, the bad and the ugly?
Lemon you really hit on how strong the emotional devastation can be with weaning. For me it has been even harder dealing with letting go of nursing because there is also an element of straight up rej more »
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Forum Post: Weaning - the good, the bad and the ugly?
ML this is so timely for me too as we are going through the same thing. I know it is said that babies don't self wean before about 18 months, but DD has been so difficult to nurse for about two month more »
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Forum Post: June Infants and Toddlers
Yay Poppy a tooth! That must feel so validating after probably, what 5 months or so of chalking everything up to teething!! We are still waiting for that first pearly white...any day now, I'm sure o more »
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Forum Post: Too early to let cry? Time to stop swaddling?
I certainly do not enjoy finding her face down in the morning!! But isn't it common for them to not be able to roll back over at this age? Posted by framerican51008[/QUOTE] Fram - You're right, it' more »
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Forum Post: Can anyone recommend a pediatrician in Bedford/Burlington area?
Well said, Krystabel - we are giving all the vaccines, just on a different schedule so that she gets less all at once. It has been very easy there - we go in for a "nurse" appointment just for the va more »
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Forum Post: Can anyone recommend a pediatrician in Bedford/Burlington area?
We go to Harvard Vanguard in Burlington and have been happy there. I started out at Woburn Pediatrics, but after my MD there told me to find another practice if I didn't want to give my daughter the more »
Count me as another in the 15 month bottle camp! DD was on morning and evening bottles until this week when I dropped the morning. Just tonight I discussed with DH and decided that since we were goi more »