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Post by lashael712 on Jan 18, 2008 15:18:21 GMT -5
hI, I had to chime in here. I am a mom of 2 boys. I was very hesitant to breastfeed my first child. I actually had decided I was not going to do it. I knew no one that breast fed. No one had breastfed in my family!!! I would be the first. I had a really rough pregnancy and labor. My son was born with Strep B. So with being too sick to see him for almost 3 days and He was too sick also, I knew that I had to try to breastfeed when I did get to see him. I had read that it is the best thing you can ever do for your baby. Even though he had to feed with a bottle He still was able to feed from me!!!! He did extremely well in the hospital and continued to get big and healthy! I unfortunatly "dried up" after 5 months but I knew I did the best I could for him. (for a while before drying up I had to supplement with formula to keep him filled up) When I had another son, I knew I was going to try. it did take a couple of days to get ANYTHING out. Poor thing didnt pee or anything. I told them at the hospital to give him a bottle do not worry about me!!!! He needs something in his tummy. Finally I was able to start breastfeeding. This time it only lasted 3 months. But I am so glad I made the decision to breastfeed. I would tell anyone to at least try! The ladies in the nursery are usually very helpful and can show you different positions to try to feeding them. It was funny how with my first child I fed one certain way and then with my second child it was easier to have him a totally different way. every baby is different.(but such a blessing ;D )
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Post by ouchy on Jan 18, 2008 17:04:43 GMT -5
That is so awesome that you gave it your all, lashael! I'm sure he benefited from it greatly! I tested + for GBS, but I had an antibiotic every 4 hours for more than 24 hours while at the hospital before mine was born.
I'm hoping my next baby will be slightly bigger than this one was. I think it will make it tons easier! Her head was like 1/8 the size of my boob! LOL! Now that she is bigger, I can hold her more ways, and it's sure getting easier! I think another month and we'll both be pros!
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Post by lashael712 on Feb 13, 2008 13:08:08 GMT -5
Hi Ouchy, Just wondering how you guys are doing with the breastfeeding. It is awkward trying to feed such a tiny little thing! I know because my second son was so much smaller than my 1st. (2nd was born 2 wks early and I didnt get to eat sugary stuff and fattening stuff like I did with my 1st!) I guess that is why I had to put him in a different position than I used with my oldest. Hope it is getting easier. Before long she will be latched on before you know what has happened! hahaha
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Post by ouchy on Feb 13, 2008 16:35:44 GMT -5
Hi, lashael! Thanks for asking! It is getting TONS easier now! Her head is almost as big as my boobs, so that makes it way easier. LOL! Her latch is way better, although sometimes we get an off-latch or so at night, and I wake up with clogged ducts. No biggie, though! She's also getting fun to nurse! She's a wisecracker, and she turns nursing in to a game. She'll roll over on to her tummy when we're side-lying, and she'll grab my boob in her mouth and yank up on it, lifting her head. It's so funny. She'll spit it out, give a little laugh, and grab it back up again. Oh. And last night, I walked past her (She was in my husband's arms while he was rocking in our glider.), and she lunged at me while making some type of roaring sound..with her mouth open and eating her hand. LOL! She tried to attack me for my milk as I walked past her! It was hillarious! I can't wait to nurse her as a toddler! That has to be a riot nursing a baby who speaks!
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Post by pickles on Feb 14, 2008 7:43:39 GMT -5
Strange question ladies. I don't have children, but both my sisters breast fed. I've heard that when you are done breastfeeding your "girls" look odd. Someone said like half filled water balloons. My question is does it matter if you breast feed or not, do they still look different than what they do now, after drying up if you don't breast feed? Not that I would let the way they look afterwards sway me decision one way or another. Just wondering. My sisters aren't exactly willing to share that information.
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Post by ouchy on Feb 14, 2008 13:40:12 GMT -5
Mine have looked like half-deflated water balloons since 4th grade. LOL! I'm obviously not dried up yet as we're just getting started and hope to go for at least 2 years. I don't think my boobs could look any worse. My nipples have gotten darker and rougher? Hard to explain.
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Post by JackMcFarland on Feb 14, 2008 17:47:18 GMT -5
2 years ouchy? even when she gets teeth! OW. I think my cut off will be 1. . .
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Post by ouchy on Feb 14, 2008 18:15:33 GMT -5
^They start to get teeth around 6 months. The WHO recommends 2 years.
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Post by pickles on Feb 15, 2008 7:52:49 GMT -5
Aren't the WHO a great rock band. ha ha J/k
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Post by ouchy on Jun 16, 2008 22:34:32 GMT -5
I can't believe that in one week we will have been nursing for 8 months! This morning she woke me up kneeling beside me and nursing. Awwwww
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Post by Tiff on Jul 10, 2008 10:27:12 GMT -5
Ok I have a few question for you all you mommies. I am a little confused as to what my 7 month old should be doing already. I have heard many different things and figured i would ask all you.
How old were your children when they started rolling over?
How old were they when they started sitting up on their own, un-assisted?
How old were they when they learned to sit them selves up?
How old were they when they started crawling?
And how old were they when they started walking/ if they are walking yet?
Reason I am asking is because people have told me they felt my daughter should be doing things she isn't yet, I always felt she would when she was ready and felt there was nothing wrong with it. I was hoping that I would find a big difference in learning ages to make me feel better about my daughters development.
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Post by ouchy on Jul 10, 2008 10:34:52 GMT -5
How old were your children when they started rolling over? She did it before she was two weeks old, but to really get somewhere, like rolling over to reach a toy, like 3 months.
How old were they when they started sitting up on their own, un-assisted? from a lying to sitting position, 6 months
How old were they when they learned to sit them selves up? see above
How old were they when they started crawling? 6 months
And how old were they when they started walking/ if they are walking yet? we get a couple steps here at a time. 8.5 months, BUT she's not completely there. She's a pro at cruising, but I've heard this is early? I dont' know. She just has liked to stand since the hospital. She's a weird one.
Sadly, her babbling has stopped and been replaced by an annoying "mmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm" We went from "mamamamama" to an annoying bee hum. It started the time she got so in to cruising and pulling up to things. I'm working with her each day on re-learning "mamamamamama." Really freaks me out since my degree is in speech pathology. And I know she is hearing bc she responds even to the gentlest of sounds.
Tiff, your daughter is probably fine. Things happen at different ages and stages. And some apparently gets retracted? I don't know. She'll get there, though!
And my mom is constantly bugging me...when is she going to say "mamamamamama?" It makes me feel like crap. We have less than a month before she's considered "speech delayed" in babbling! ugh!
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Post by Tiff on Jul 10, 2008 10:50:18 GMT -5
My daughter didn't really start rolling over on her own till about 5 months...we can sit her on her bottom and she can stay for a minute or so then falls over...she will not sit herself up on her own/ nor have we seen her try.... she has been getitng up on her knees for about a month now but just rocks, not crawls, but she does schoot on her belly (backward) to get places.... Instead of crawling she gets on her hands and her feet with her bottom in the air(looks kinda like the downward facing dog position in yoga) and can move a little like that.... She loves standing, she can stand on her own if we put her in the standing position. She has always liked standing and jumping even since she was a few weeks old.
I guess i am not really worried about the crawling since it really isn't a milestone, its the sitting I am worried about. she has not made any attempts to sit on her own.
She loves to whisper..it is so cute.... she sounds like " ayyayy tytyty" and says mamamamamama and dadadadada all the time... when she does it I get excited even though I know she isn't saying it on purpose. LOL
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Post by Tiff on Jul 10, 2008 10:52:36 GMT -5
ouchy- what is babbling really concist of? I never realized there was time frame to babble before concidered delayed.
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Post by ouchy on Jul 10, 2008 11:14:42 GMT -5
Well, the "reduplicated" babbling (mamamamama...bababababa type stuff) is supposed to happen between 6 and 9 months. She started it right at 7 months...then quit. I just found another source that shows between 6 and 10 months. But still. Ugh! Here is a chart from wikipedia Production [edit] Stages of pre-speech vocal development Even though children do not produce their first words until they are approximately 12 months old, the ability to produce speech sounds starts to develop at a much younger age. Stark (1980) distinguishes five stages of early speech development:[17] [edit] 0-6 weeks: Reflexive vocalizations These earliest vocalizations include crying and vegetative sounds such as breathing, sucking or sneezing. For these vegetative sounds, infants’ vocal cords vibrate and air passes through their vocal apparatus, thus familiarizing infants with processes involved in later speech production. [edit] 6-16 weeks: Cooing and laughter Infants produce cooing sounds when they are content. Cooing is often triggered by social interaction with caregivers and resembles the production of vowels. [edit] 16-30 weeks: Vocal play Infants produce a variety of vowel- and consonant-like sounds that they combine into increasingly longer sequences. The production of vowel sounds (already in the first 2 months) precedes the production of consonants, with the first back consonants (e.g., [g], [k]) being produced around 2-3 months, and front consonants (e.g., [m], [n], ) starting to appear around 6 months of age. As for pitch contours in early infant utterances, infants between 3 and 9 months of age produce primarily flat, falling and rising-falling contours. Rising pitch contours would require the infants to raise subglottal pressure during the vocalization or to increase vocal fold length or tension at the end of the vocalization, or both. At 3 to 9 months infants don’t seem to be able to control these movements yet.[18]
[edit] 6-10 months: Reduplicated babbling (or canonical babbling[19]) Reduplicated babbling contains consonant-vowel (CV) syllables that are repeated in reduplicated series of the same consonant and vowel (e.g., [bababa]). At this stage, infants’ productions resemble speech much more closely in timing and vocal behaviors than at earlier stages. Starting around 6 months babies also show an influence of the ambient language in their babbling, i.e., babies’ babbling sounds different depending on which languages they hear. For example, French learning 9-10 month-olds have been found to produce a bigger proportion of prevoiced stops (which exist in French but not English) in their babbling than English learning infants of the same age.[20] This phenomenon of babbling being influenced by the language being acquired has been called babbling drift.[21]
[edit] 10-14 months: Nonreduplicated babbling (or variegated babbling[22]) Infants now combine different vowels and consonants into syllable strings. At this stage, infants also produce various stress and intonation patterns. During this transitional period from babbling to the first word children also produce “protowords”, i.e., invented words that are used consistently to express specific meanings, but that are not real words in the children’s target language.[23] Around 12-14 months of age children produce their first word. Infants close to one year of age are able to produce rising pitch contours in addition to flat, falling, and rising-falling pitch contours.[24]
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