This post has a specific purpose, which is to ask advice from my readers who have successfully (or unsuccessfully) nursed babies in the past. If you haven't, you're still welcome to read, but consider yourself warned. I nursed S-Boogie for an entire year before she weaned. I generally felt that things went well, although she did not gain a lot of weight very quickly. With Little Dude we got to about four months or so before I realized that his extreme fussiness was probably related to hunger and we switched to a bottle because I couldn't get the supply back up. There were a lot of things going on in my life at the time, including a major move and his emergency delivery, so I'm not surprised that my body flaked out on me. Since then, however, I've been doing a little research on hypoplastic breasts, which are basically those that don't have enough milk-producing tissue. A big sign of that is the fact that they don't change size during pregnancy (mine don'
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If he sees you with a rool of tape he gets very excited, then starts pointing at the parts of his body he wants you to put tape on.
I always thought this was a little strange, but am so relieved to know that S Boogie, whom I regard as highly developed, likes tape too!
And now I learn that Miss R also enjoyed tape.
So glad to know the Big O is normal.
I came to a similar conclusion when preparing for a family road trip when my kids were young. Bandaids, tape, all those things that we normally don't let them play with - we usually say "no", b/c we "can't afford" to waste things. But then I compared these items to the cost of toys, and said, "YES!" (You can imagine what the back seat of the car looked like, but no harm done, and it 'saved the day'.) :)