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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Infant Development studies say, however, that if you want him to be able to really get into a foreign language later, the first year is the time to introduce him to the sounds. As you know, there are certain sounds that do or don't exist in each language; if kids are exposed to them in their first year, it trains their brain to be able to hear and make those sounds later in life.
(Also, no Muslim would be surprised at this blog post. If I were smart enough to use HTML code to make that into a link, I would. But I'm not, so here you go:http://www.islam101.com/dawah/newBorn.htm)