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That sounds like a rocky start, but hang in there. It is NOT too late to build a solid nursing relationship, but it will take some time, patience and hard work. The first thing to do is to get the...

The other thing to keep in mind is that when they are that old, they are not going to starve if they don't get 1 ounce/hour during the day, even if solids are not totally making up the difference....

There is no magic thing that happens at 12 months. Some people continue well past the 12 months mark. If it makes sense for you to stop a few weeks early, your child will be just fine!!! If you were...

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I agree with everything PP said. The only thing I might suggest is to try offering MORE. In the early days, it is common to nurse much more frequently than 2-4 hours. Breastfed babies...

I've been where you are, except in my case I was pregnant, which was both easier and harder. DD1 and I talked a bunch about how the baby was going to need to nurse, and I had resigned myself to...

With DD1, we never got her to use a bottle, so this time around with DD2 we just haven't bothered to try. I went back to work today (DD2 is 8 months), and DH was home with the baby.

For cup...

I would definitely NOT offer juice as a replacement (or really at all) though.

When I was in a similar position with DD1, the advice I was given by Dr. Jack Newman (a breastfeeding expert) was that it was OK to give water and solids as a replacement for breastmilk at this age...

I'm honestly not sure what I would do the next time. In the end, I got my milk in time - the milk bank even said it would accept it since it was still partially frozen when it arrived. Clearly being...

Actually on closer examination it looks like there might have been a tiny amount of thawing/refreezing in transit, but definitely not all the way. I'll ask the milk bank if they have concerns about...

False alarm on the thawed milk. DH just came home from the airport with the bag, and it is all STILL FROZEN SOLID after 10 hours in transit. Yippeee!!!

I had 40 oz of frozen breastmilk in a checked bag, coming home from a family holiday home to visit my parents. This was milk I had carefully pumped while away to donate to a milk bank. Normally when...

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Yeah, I like to think of the guidelines as just that. Ideally, milk is freshest in the first few days - the longer you go, the less good it is. But there is not a hard cut-off after which it...

1. whoa, I never knew that about parsnips!!!

2. I wouldn't be concerned about it from the perspective of the age difference. It's true the milk you pumped back then is different from what she gets...

I find rigorously shaking helps to clear the water out.

I'm also someone who gave up on the SNS, so I can't help there. But I also know someone who used it for 2 years, so I know it can be done. I guess you just have to use your judgment about whether...

I agree with mommal - don't beat yourself up about what you can't change, and allow yourself to feel good about what you have accomplished. Relactation is not easy, and you really deserve credit.
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Here are some other resources that might help (again, not specifically about your medication).

http://kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/relactation/...

I am not familiar with this medication, but I do know it is possible to induce lactation even if you have no milk supply at all, so possible, absolutely yes. I doubt it makes more fundamental changes...

Could you be starting your period? If so, it is a temporary dip.

If you do find you are having trouble keeping up with pumping, there is no reason that you would need to stop breastfeeding while...

That seems unlikely to me. I would call the folks at motherisk:

http://www.motherisk.org/women/index.jsp

Also, based on the baby's poo and pee output,I am not at all convinced there is a problem with your breastfeeding (what comes out must have gone in, after all...).

By centile, do you mean quartile? (i.e., I assume you meant your baby had dropped further in the charts than one percentage point, which is not even statistically detectable).

I think you need a...

Sounds like you're doing well. Here's a list I found:

http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/handouts/dietary_sources_iron.html

I would be wary of using too much blackstrap molasses, since it's a...

Oh, and the ones that were still frozen,or even mostly frozen, are still fine to put back in the freezer, even under some formal guidelines.