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Both of you need to stop feeling badly and defending yourselves.I BF'd my first for six weeks and at her six week check up, she had lost a dangerous amount of weight. I was ordred to switch to Enfamil immediately. I produced very weak milk. The next two, I didn't even try. As you all have seen, they grew into healthy happy adults and you can't tell they were bottle babies. I was so down on myself that I cried a river until I accepted it for what it was. No, I was not earth-mother but they grew to be healthy, happy responsible adults and I believe they truly love me. Diapers and breatfeeding is the LEAST important thing you will do for your children. Tell them you love them every day. Tell them they are beautiful everyday. Make everyday an adventure and make them your priority after your husband. This is what is most important.

GO Bears!!!

There are some pictures posted of the coffee mate party boxes on the coffee mate facebook page. The art one is up, and I think office is too. You can also track your package by using the reference DRILLTEAM on ups.com.

If it's not too late I'll play. I'm in for $10. I'll PM Kootz to see where to send the GC.

I'm not the most granola girl on the block either. I use disposables...my son is circumcised....and my kids are vaccinated. We did a delayed schedule with DS but he's caught up now and so are the girls. They all slept with me for a time but that was for varying reasons - never the "family bed" reason All that said, I have fought like hell for natural births and breast-fed babies and wouldn't you know it that after the first two, the last two wouldn't come out without a c/s and have been barely bf'd. Of course, nothing ever turns out like I planned so this is not a surprise exactly but it's funny how it works so easily for some people and they think it is that way for everyone.

GO Bears!!!

Still feeling real awful. This is just nuts.

Spent the day yesterday on the couch watching TV and napping.
I kept down Diet Sierra Mist and saltines

Made some macaroni and ate with a little beef broth around 6p.
Went to bed at 9 and just like the night before I was awoken at 3a making love to the toilet.

What the heck is going on? Throwing up for me is never easy especially when there is hardly anything in my stomach.

Trying to eat a little plain oatmeal to see if that stays in...

Football pool...

Currently I have Amazon gift cards from Cat, Knottie, Bre, JD, Chris, Snowie

Target from Kootz

Coachie and Mama2 are mailing a card...

Please let me know if I have forgotten anyone so far.

Also please post whether you are mailing or emailing so I can look out for it

Still feeling real awful. This is just nuts.

Spent the day yesterday on the couch watching TV and napping.
I kept down Diet Sierra Mist and saltines

Made some macaroni and ate with a little beef broth around 6p.
Went to bed at 9 and just like the night before I was awoken at 3a making love to the toilet.

What the heck is going on? Throwing up for me is never easy especially when there is hardly anything in my stomach.

Trying to eat a little plain oatmeal to see if that stays in...

I think a white bed would work fine for a boys room. Especially the one in the link.

I have a question for you young moms. I've been hearing all over the news that they are no longer making drop side cribs. Were a lot of babies being injured by them? I have not heard of any injuries although I'm sure in all the years they were made there might have been some somewhere. I don't know how short people (such as myself or my girls) will do getting babies that aren't standing or pulling themselves up out of the crib without partially climbing into it to get them when you put the mattress on the lowest level. I'm only 5 ft tall (so is Sara and Lauren). I always dropped the mattress down when the babies would start rolling or start to sit up fearing that one day they would pull themselves up and fall out. I guess short people leave the mattress high now? I was so surprised that they were making a big deal out of taking drop side ones off the market when they have been around forever without a problem. John was so rough with our crib when he would wake up. He loved to jump and would hold on to the side and just jump and jump and I would hear the crib slamming into the wall and I would worry about the side giving way but it never did. I thought they were pretty safe. Oh well...things change I guess.

I know what you mean. There was a Moms group I tried to meet with when mine were just over a year old. Most moms had their little babies in with them (which I think is totally fine), but there was childcare available. It was only 90 min. When they get to the distracting age (babbling loud, throwing stuff off the tables, etc) I was just ready for them to put their kids in the childcare class! These were moms that had older kids in the childcare class. I was there to hear the speaker and chat with other moms - and take a BREAK from my three and not take care of other people's kids.

I know, I sound MEAN. Sorry. I know I am safe here. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE kids and I love babies. I'm not talking about putting your 1 week old in there, but your 2 year old.

They also tried to tell me I could have BF longer if I had tried (I pumped for 2 months, and they never latched because they were preemies and I had never done it before to be able to push through it).

They also told me it would be better to use cloth diapers. That the cost up front was worth it. Well, we were living on student loans while DH was getting his PhD and NO income... so HOW CAN I AFFORD THE COST UP FRONT??? Thankfully I stocked up on the WAGs double dipping deal (twice) and from about 18 months until they were potty trained, that is all we had to use!!!

Sorry, it was a bit of a sore subject for me since I felt I was being judged. I think we all have been there

Still feeling real awful. This is just nuts.

Spent the day yesterday on the couch watching TV and napping.
I kept down Diet Sierra Mist and saltines

Made some macaroni and ate with a little beef broth around 6p.
Went to bed at 9 and just like the night before I was awoken at 3a making love to the toilet.

What the heck is going on? Throwing up for me is never easy especially when there is hardly anything in my stomach.

Trying to eat a little plain oatmeal to see if that stays in...

Still feeling real awful. This is just nuts.

Spent the day yesterday on the couch watching TV and napping.
I kept down Diet Sierra Mist and saltines

Made some macaroni and ate with a little beef broth around 6p.
Went to bed at 9 and just like the night before I was awoken at 3a making love to the toilet.

What the heck is going on? Throwing up for me is never easy especially when there is hardly anything in my stomach.

Trying to eat a little plain oatmeal to see if that stays in...

I woke up in the middle of the night and could hardly swallow it hurt so bad. Went on to church this morning and could have sang bass if I chose to sing but it hurt to sing so I didn't. Now I think I'll just go curl up on the couch under my blankie and rest....I blame it on the people at WM this week.

So I have had a fun weekend. Yesterday I went and bought more yarn and then went to my SIL's baby shower. I had a great time. It was nice to hang out with other women, even though I only knew a few of them! My MIL offered to throw me a baby shower at my SIL's shower. It was kinda strange. IDK what to do about it. We shall see. We took a pic of us belly to belly. I am bigger than her even though I am 2 months behind her Here [facebook.com] is the pic. Oh well
Then last night I made a hat for Lily. The night before I made one too, but I did something wrong and it ended up fitting Soph Oh well, she is happy! Here [facebook.com]is a pic of the hat I made last night. I just need to add the flower to it. I am planning on making a few more in this style.
I did some garage saleing this weekend. All 3 I went to yesterday were duds. All boy stuff and nothing I really wanted/needed from the baby gear. Today we went to 5 more. Alexa got some clothes at one, and then another was good for me for maternity clothes. A different one was good for some small baby gear things I needed. I got a tub for $2 and a bumbo tray for $1. Great steals IMO! I cleaned them already, but will do so again closer to when the baby gets here. I am crazy about cleaning it all, even if it looks clean! All of the sales today were boys clothes again though! That is 8 this weekend and they were all boys! Oh well! Anyways, I had a good time!

Dawn-I seem to remember you doing sign language dvds for kiddos...wondering your thoughts on something...my daughter is likely to babysit for a 9 year old girl this summer who will eventually be deaf. She only has partial hearing right now, but her parents have not started working with her or getting prepared for this in any way...that is a whole nother issue! I am sure that my daughter would love to help her learn as well as herself learning sign. This little girl looks up to my DD and I think it could be successful and fun with the right program. What are your thoughts...would DVDs like yours be a good introduction for them or is there a program that you would recomend?

Poor thing!! My dvd and the other baby sign videos teach more of basic vocabulary. I am not familiar with a program that teaches signing in depth the way this girl will need but I am sure it is out there. I would be happy to send you a set if you think they will help. There are clips on our website for you to get an idea of what it looks like. www.sayitvideos.com