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we got our son drinking water out of one of the soft nipple sippy cups. basically when they chomp down on the nipple, they get the water. It took about a month of him playing with the cup before he really started drinking from it. After he had that mastered, we switched to the regular sippy without any trouble. Have you…

late to the party. we started around 5 months. we started off slow, but by around 7 months he was eating three meals a day. I think if we have another kids, I would start at 6 months and do more of a baby led weaning approach (maybe with just a bit of cereal with meals to meat the iron demands. at 9.5 months I am now…

the cream I had had a steroid in it which helped with the pain. I think for me it was a full 2 weeks before it was all cleared up. Is it nyastatin that the baby has? It gave my baby a sore tummy, but he as also very little (like 1 month?)

great job on making it to 1 year, now good luck with your weight loss goals!

I guess I was wrong :) When I had thrush, neither the baby nor I had an visible signs. It hurt during breast feeding, but the worst for me was after breast feeding I it felt like I had shooting pain particularly if I bent over, at one time I actually googled heart attack because it was worst on my left (the breast I am now…

I had thrush with no visible signs of it. It was aweful. In my experience, it isn't what you are describing. I remember reading somewhere recently that as the baby gets older, it gets more painful for the mum.

Body glide the heck out of the back of your neck, you will chafe there and it will really sting with the salt water. Figure out where the current is before starting so that you know how to adjust on the out and back sections look for the rip tides (where the water is flowing back out) and go with the riptide on the way out…

Super frustrating! I used to leak all the time (up until 6 or 7 months) and my let down was so fast he would often gag (at least a few times a day). then he would come off and milk would be spraying everywhere. Now I am constantly worried about whether he is getting enough milk.

he isn't swallowing.

Okay, so I lied, looks like BT started the spring/summer mentor groups now, so our group has been added to the archives. I'm not sure if we are going to continue it.

It sure is :) there is another girl in the group who is currently pregnant. The group is called "Daffodil (me) and Juniper Jen's New Parent Group".

I think I would recommend going with a non IM brand race so that you can sign up later if things are going well. On BT I am co-leading a mentoring group for new parents, and the other leader is having a much easier go with training and will be doing a half IM next month just after her LO turns 1.

When is your due date? I had my first last August (two time Ironman pre baby). I just want to caution you not to make too many plans, you never know how it is going to be post baby until you are there. I had big plans to do a half IM this year, even breifly considered signing up for an ironman, then it got downgraded to…

For me, the ovulation CM was kind of sticky. I'm guessing that even if that wasn't what it was, that things are starting to change for you. I'm 5.5 month PP, no period in sight, but I'm also BF'ing almost exclusively (just starting to play around with solids) - DS has only gone 6+ hours between nursing sessions once or…

agree with the above poster - can you try a cup instead of bottle? DS is very interested in cups right now (he is 5.5 months) and I've be introducing the cup with water in it. he doesn't know what to think about water, but I'm going to keep trying.

warm up kick set (like 4x50) 10x100 cool down.

will it work? possibly. I think it probably depends on the athlete. Is it the best way to train? absolutely not. Otherwise the pros would be doing it.

just want to say that 1:30/100 m is not elite. unless you can keep up that pace for 2.4 miles. 1:30 is good, but not elite.

a nutritionist recommended a friend do 1700, but she is 4'8" so very short.

how big is your little guy? My son was 19 lbs, 12.5 oz at his 4 month appointment, he's a giant! This week (5 weeks old) he was 21.5 lbs. Time to switch to the convertible car seat!

I'm guessing from your post that you are canadian (the 12 month mat leave and winter wonderland). We have a very hyper Golden Retriever so not walking daily is not an option. (I'm fairly certain that he would accidentally jump on baby J if he didn't get his excersize. we walk on the road during the day when traffic is…

enjoy the first few weeks and don't stress about weight loss. I was planning on starting back to excersize right away, but with a 2nd degree tear, I was in a bit of pain and didn't do anything more than walking for about 5 weeks. The first few weeks, it would hurt to walk 500 m. be there for your baby and get back into it…

Good news, I'm able to stop taking the thyroid pills, retesting in 6 weeks. Hopefully you'll be able to get off them too.

I have the medela harmony and it works ok, I would recommend pumping first thing in the morning when LO is nursing (nursing on one breast, pumping the other. takes a bit of practice, but I seem to get much better yeild (I usually get enough for a full bottle this way). Haven't pumped in a few weeks because J is having a…

did you just join? I set my nursing calories to 500 per day, a 1 pound per week loss and eat back most of my excersize calories. I have been losing pretty steadily for 3 weeks since I joined. so far I'm less than 10 mpw, but also trying to get on my trainer a couple of times a week (I'm a triathlete). eta - I see you have…

I take it before bed each night (probably same time to within 30 minutes). I'm on the smallest dose (5 mcg). Since I started in pregnancy and LO's health depended on it, I got in the habit of taking it regularly.

also hypothyroid, started taking levothyroxin when I was pregnant. I'm going to talk to the doctor on Monday (4 month check up) about whether I still need to take.

drills, drills and more drills. at 2.5 k in 70 minutes, there is room for your technique to improve. when you technique improves, say 2.5 km in 60 minutes, start working on speed sets. like 25x100 on 2:30 (this means you start each 100 m on 2:30, the faster you go the more rest you will have). I wouldn't do anything longer…

personally, even though I am canadian, I am a weather wimp when it comes to cycling. below 50F and I'm on the trainer. My feet get way to cold (at 50, I am wearing woolies and booties and can still only manage an hour before my feet freeze.

we take walks down to -20C. that would be just below 0 F. We have a golden retriever.