I thought it might be fun to start doing some polling in this community. Mostly just to keep myself entertained but hopefully y'all will enjoy it as well. My fantasy is to maybe do a new question every week that everyone can answer. What the heck, let's see how it pans out ( Read more... )

A LJ user named Dogemperor  posted a note in a community called innocence_jihad.  The posted contains the responses from LiveJournal Abuse Prevention Team after Dogemperor 's failed attempt to shut down the LJ Babywise community with a complaint.

Here is what I have to say to the article found at: Read more... )

You'd think, this being my third child, I would have this figured out by now. Can you all please barrage me with tips on how to get my 11 month old to learn to drink from a sippy cup? It hasn't been going well. In fact, when he sees one now he just cries.

Seems kinda dead in here... but I need some help with daytime napping.  I just put my 4 month old son EJ on a 4 hour schedule and his naps are so irregular during the day, and it's starting to affect our nightime sleep, which up until this point, he was down to one feeding a night .....  ggrrr... any suggestions for my no- napper???

I hope I'm allowed to post this here but if not I'll take it down.

Some of you may heard of Kristy Reynolds. Her 6 month old son is suffering horribly from Shaken Baby Syndrome! She picked him up from homecare about 3 weeks ago and noticed something was wrong with Kaleb. He was diagnosed with SBS. The woman who did this to him is out on a $5000 ( Read more... )

So lately Phoebe who just turned three has taken a bigger interest in keeping money in one of my old purses and so I have been rewarding her with  a nickle or dime or quarter here and there when she picks up her toys or  putting her clothes in the hamper. But where she is so young I was wondering if it was the right thing to do to give her money ( Read more... )

Since I've gave away the copy of Babywise I read with my first daughter, I picked up a new one before my new baby was born.  I noticed it's been updated and revised in 2006, so if anyone is looking to re-read, or read it for the first time, you might want to pick up the newest edition!

I was a bit disturbed by a comment somebody left on one of my rants in my journal regarding AP parenting. However it got me to thinking and looking again into the whole AP thing (I looked into with my first pregnancy and decided against it) And I still am just not impressed with the whole idea of extended breastfeeding and co-sleeping, and holding ( Read more... )

Audrey has been waking once a night to nurse for a long time and I thought it was probably time to drop it. She seems happy and healthy so I don't think that missing one feeding will cause a problem. We started on Friday night. The first two nights she slept from about 10 until 5:00 and I let her cry until 6:00. I really don't want her getting up ( Read more... )

I just want to thank the advice from happyhothead and jenafiori about my Daphne's napping dillema, it took less then a week to get her down for naps. The first day (mon) Phoebe and I sat in the room coloring and writing letters and Daph was in her crib a bit jealous but was on the most part content with watching us, the second day (tues) P and I ( Read more... )