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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I always sort of dread putting BabyT in cute clothes cuz I know it gets messed everytime.
Have you seen the new Tide stain remover pen? I got one for my own clothes and I keep it i the diaper bag. I had to use it on BabyT the other day and since it looks like a bright orange marker it looked like I was coloring on her clothes with a marker. I can just see her doing it thinking it's okay cuz mommy did it!
So, my point (and I have one!) is that your darling just needs to see what happens when she destroys nice stuff. That's all. Now, don't you feel better? :)
I am with you! We are right there with ours, and she's only 20 months old. Oh, how I empathize.