Wow that was really informative :) Thanks sia, that makes me feel a lot better about nursing still. I figure she will wean when she's ready, otherwise I'm shooting for two.

I'd love if Terra weaned by two, but like sia, I plan on letting her lead the weaning process. Right now she STILL nurses around the clock if we're not out and about. @_x; But, all babies are different.

She eats like a little piggie, too. Everything going. She eats some of everything. XD

Harry isn't a very good eater yet. We try to give him whatever we're eating- and sometimes he'll gobble it right up and other times he just buttons his lips and shakes his head no (and often it's the same food he ate with no problems a few days before)

I joke that he's our little fruitatarian - and he's a carb junkie (like mom & Dad) - when we try to put greens on his try he tosses them onto the floor :rawrmayor:

Terra goes back and forth. She loves ground beef, loves fruit, and carbs come and go. She's not big on potatoes, but she'll sometimes have toast with her eggs or yogurt in the mornings. She'll sometimes eat creamed spinach and chopped broccoli, but does seem to prefer starchier veg like peas! Doesn't like cow's milk though...

She eats Happytots, and they usually shove a couple vegetables in with a fruit, so that's a plus I guess. Her quick snack is always a squeezable something or other.

I've started trying the different happy tots foods with Harry and he's liked a few of them so I need to get more.

He usually will eat scrambled egg (but has refused for the last week), eats up pancakes, french toast, waffles, bread & butter, grilled cheese, yogurt - but if it's green he buttons his lips.

When we tried to feed him peas he went on a food strike for a week after that so I haven't tried peas with him again. :lol:

Did any of you find yourself MORE pimply after the baby? :sweat: Maybe it's just been since my period returned, but I feel more pimply now either way, than before I was pregnant. Even more than high school... I HATE it, I get so embarrassed.

My period just returned 2 months ago and I had a MAJOR breakout- it was awful! I'm still trying to recover from it- so annoying. I thought this was teenage stuff but here I am, 30 years old and breaking out. :roll:

I know, I feel like I'll have some of these in our family Thanksgiving photos at this rate :(

I need to get to the grocery store though. Great talking to you :)

I only just got my period back, too. October! My acne has been OUT OF CONTROL. It is indeed embarrassing. :gonk:

I don't know about you guys but that period was awful, too. Just awful. I hear for some it takes a few cycles to get back to normal.

Dear god I bled for a month - it was so horrible. I hope it gets back to normal soon ebcause I don't know if I can take another whole month of bleeding and spotting. :gonk:

I hear you. :gonk:

Kya... I have nursed all of my kiddos so far... My oldest made it the longest... He was 15 months when I stopped him I just couldn't do school and him waking up every few hour at night and a job. So I started weening him... But he only really nursed at night he was FAR to busy to nurse during the day... My second only made it to 9 months... I got really sick and stopped producing... And when I got my supply back he refused to nurse at all anymore... I plan on going to at least 12 months with my little girl, but it is on my terms more then anything... I stop night feedings at about 12-14 months so nursing at night would stop at that point, so if she is like her brothers stopping night feeding would mean stopping nursing all together at that point.... We'll see how she does though...

I know there are added benefits to extended breastfeeding... So long as I take care of myself right. But I do start regular cows milk at that point and the kids have no interest in me once that happens... "HOLY COW THIS IS PORTABLE????" lol...

I am so cheesy I got the parts to my Medela pump from WIC today :D I love my tech she's awesome and freaking hilarious... They tested my pumps suction (since it is 3 years old) and when they got it all hooked up my tech put the test part on her face ROFL... She was like "OMG IT GOT ME ROFL." The pumps suction is a tiny bit low but not enough for me to worry about it isn't like I am going back to work just yet....

YOU GUYS ARE SOOO LUCKY!!!! I get my period back like 2 weeks after I am "healed" from labor... it freaking sucks... It never goes away... except when I am pregnant that is.....

As for pimples.... I tend to be the worst when my period is coming... or here... Though I've had quite a few bouts with this little girls pregnancy itself!

I consider myself really lucky having gone from November 2009-October 2011 without a period. I think somewhere in my mind I was never going to have another one. I was so sad! :lol:

Mmm... I'm feeling so much better, emotionally. This move, in the long-term, will be a good thing. With the economy being as rough as it is, saving $700 a month is going to be huge. We have an astronomical pile of student loan debt, and that needs chipping at! It's all a good thing.

We're going down to the island in the morning to look the house over, see what needs packing, and what Mom's comfortable with putting in boxes. I am excited. ^___^ I'll have to take pictures for you guys. The house has a lot of nifty things, including a walk-in pantry she had built a year or so after I moved out. Lots of non-perishable food storage!

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Oh, Jaz! Now that I'm not carrying the plague, I'll get your package ready. I didn't dare go near it because of the cold. :lol: It'll come next week! :D

How would one suggest I get my daughter to stop night feeding? She sleeps with us, I've heard 891439487 reasons from everyone and their mother why that's bad and that I NEED to get her to stop night feeding. I don't know what to think.

Maybe I could try giving her a pacifier when she wakes? She's never taken one though. Sighh. People sure know how to make you feel like you're doing it all wrong.

What makes you think you "need" to stop night feeding? It tends to be a cultural thing. Heck, even in countries like Japan it's common to co-sleep until age 7 or more. One of my student peers/friends lives in a reservation town and his Native American culture emphasizes the importance of co-sleeping until the child is... mm... I don't remember the age, but well past that of the toddler years. It's considered taboo NOT to co-sleep.

I guess all I mean to say is, parenting is a controversial thing all around. Everyone thinks they know the answer, when in fact children are raised by hundreds of different methods. Do what is most comfortable for YOU. :) If you're okay letting things go for a while longer, do so. Screw whomever chastises you.

:D I want to tell you Chi, that I love you lol You made me smile and gave me a little of my confidence back :yes: You're right, children are brought up by hundreds of different methods. As long as my daughter is happy and healthy, who cares what anyone else thinks. :)

I stop night feedings (including formula since my second was formula fed from 9 months to a year) because of personal reasons... I am going on 9 months of very little or very interrupted sleep at this point add at least 12 months of nursing and I am just not a happy camper anymore lol. It is my personal choice... I broke my oldest by breaking him... Minorly... to the crib... (I used the Ferber method to break him to sleeping in the crib at about 14 months and moved him to a toddler bed at 18 months.... He wouldn't sleep in the toddler bed so he came back to sleeping with me but he was done nursing by that time lol)... My second was my husband's first, and I simply stopped waking up to him fussing... He wasn't crying he just would fuss and want a bottle in the middle of the night... My husband took almost 6 more months (totalling to about 18 months all together of being given night feedings) to stop waking with him when I told him I thought he was more then big enough to sleep through the night... ESPECIALLY since he WAS formula fed and MOST formula babies sleep through the night at 6-7months... He wasn't given formula after he hit a year my husband would wake up and bring him milk and eventually water when i found out he was doing that and scolded him for it lol.... I'd also like to add my second NEVER slept with me... We tried for a week or two but he was bent on trying to kill himself and slept better in the bassinet next to our bed...

ANYHOW... What I was getting at is each kid is different... My best friend has been trying to stop nursing for like 5ish months and it was made harder because she also co-sleeps... But most of stopping night feedings is will power... My friend found that cuddling her daughter REALLY close and tight to her (but pointed away from her breasts so that she didn't think it was time to nurse) when she woke up for a night feeding. She's been sleeping through the night for about a week and a half... lol... Kids are hard to measure... They don't have a manual that works for them all you just have to try different things...

Chi I am glad you aren't carrying the plague O_o;; just give me the heads up when you send it so I can keep an eye out for it <3 I am excited to see what you got for her lol... I love getting fluffy mail! I am excited <3 thank you so very much again!

Jaz added beautifully to my post. We all make choices based on what keeps us healthy and strong to keep care of our little ones. Each course is different, and raising healthy babies is most important! :heart:

I gotta say, if I were juggling two children I would have to change feeding and sleep cycles. If we ever have a second and Terra isn't in her own room, I'd have to adjust my style. :XD So it's all about what's best in the moment!

No problem, Jaz! I'm gonna take one final peek at the local store here, and then prep it for mailing. I'll shoot you a PM when it's out!

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Jaz, I did purchase a couple bottle/nipple things from your Amazon registry. Does she need any clothes? I don't remember. I don't want to get anything you don't need, but if I see something cute, would you want newborn or more 3-6mos??

She mostly needs like warm pants or long sleeved things in newborn, 0-3 ot 3-6 is fine all of those will be cold weather times :P she had droves of hot weather clothes... LOL... Ohh you bought nipples/bottles :D thank you <3 I bought 3 of the breastflow bottles... I am really excited to try them out :P I also got one as hand me down that was never used lol.... I need to find the latex nipples for the other bottles (playtex drop ins) I have... >.> I don't like the silicone ones all that much I mean when Ellie is bigger but when she is learning how to deal with the difference between mama and a bottle I like the big soft latex nipples and NONE of the stores I have gone to here carry them O_o; I probably won't use those as much anyhow since they require a disposable liner and I'm cheap lol...


Oh I've known some very successful co-sleeping mama's that have more then on kiddo :D I've also known (well read about I guess) successful tandum nursers as well :D I'd assume if you were doing tandum it would be DROVES easier to co sleep as well....

HOLY COW my back and sides hurt today... :( I have been feeling decently good for like 4 days and I've been too busy to get stuff done at home :( and today I finally had a little time to get stuff done because Sean is off of school on Friday and I feel yucky :'( It's like Ellie KNOWS!!! At least tomorrow is Saturday and I can get Dillon to help me get stuff done even if it means that I am on the couch sorting while he is doing most of the grunt work :P


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I got a little face happy O_o

I'm so stoked you need clothes. I love clothes shopping. >D
Check your Amazon list, as I got the Playtex nipples you put up, and some extra Breastflow nipples/bottles. It's better to have extras than not enough. ^__^

Terra loved the Breastflow due to the compression it allows. She'd compress the outer nipple with her mouth and lips, and the level would change as she drank. Just be cautious with the nipples because they DO break easily. Dx Worth it to replace, imo, but Ellie may not like 'em!

So yeah, expect that coming via Amazon, and my package coming from here with the two clothies and some clothes! Yay!

Get some rest. Baby is gonna make her entrance soon. I'm thinking she's going to come around my birthday or a few days after. ;3

Congrats on the upcoming birth, Jazzie. :) Best of luck to you and much love to you, your family and baby E. :heart:

Isn't your birthday the 11th I want her to come ON the 11th... SO bad... I am tired of being pregnant already... I want to meet my little girl already T_T

Chi would you mind if I added you on FB? Your doing so much for us that I feel you are more then a good enough friend to be a friend on there :P <3 Plus then you can be one of the first to see her :) cause I am sooo dragging the laptop with me!

Thank you clair:)

Sure thing! ^_^ <3

I'll be thinking happy thoughts for the 11th. ;3

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Do you have pictures of Terra on FB? :3

Send me you full name I am pretty sure I know which profile is yours on Mellies friends but I want to be sure!