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Son Has Trouble Catching Breath
I have had a doctor blow me off with my daughters crying and make me think I was crazy and after I switched doctors we found out the real problem. Mommies ...
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- Dear S., I myself would see if I could get a different pediatrician, or at least a second opinion. I have done a google search for you. Print out some info and take i...
- S. hi. you might call your high school's athletic trainer. see what they think. i had a niece in middle school/high school that seemed to display some of the same s...
- Just from reading that I would definately say "exercise induced asthma" but I'm no doctor. I myself have "exercise induced asthma" I was diagnosed with it in the 7th g...
Need Some Tips for Toddler Toothbrushing
30 Sep 2009 ... Read all 16 responses: "Hi moms, My little boy is 22 months, ... started a bedtime sticker chart so if they brush real good or brush then ...
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- I try and let my son brush his own teeth. What we also do in order for him to actually do it instead of just chewing on it is letting us hear the “good noise”. W...
- My daughter is the same age and I'm having the same issue. She used to love it so I want to read the responses you got.
- Our pediatric dentist gives the kids a small sand timer to use while they brush their teeth. They loved to use it especially when they were little. It helped to make...
The Reluctant Potty Trainer
I know a lot of moms who have had success with early potty training but I ... and you wont need anything but the real thing. Lisa mom to boys aged 13 to 3 ...
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- I'd wait till he is closer to 3 and the adjustment to the new baby is over. You'll have better sucess and you won't be stressing over it. Kids should transistion to ...
- I have a son who also was not interested in potty training at age 2. I did not push the issue at all until he was 2 1/2. Then I slowly started talking about it and ha...
- I have 3 boys and 1 girl. My youngest turned 2 on March 7 and he's a boy. He's probably ready physically; however, my past experience tells me that it's a lot easier...
4 Year Old Wants to Know How I'm Going to Have My Baby
(I got that feeling because my mom used euphemisms instead of the real, biological word.) I would find a diagram of a pregnant woman's anatomy, saying, ...
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- I would tell him, in words and phrases that a 4 yr. old can understand. My daughter started asking about where babies come from when she was 3 1/2. I explained that ...
- My son, at almost 3 when I had his sister, was catching on too. He had come with me to one of my appointments and met the doctor. So we just told him that when it was ...
- Hi A.-- I too had a midwife and my son was present for the birth, so we prepped him first. A baby story, etc. will help. If you don't want to get that graphic you c...
Getting My 8 Month Old Son to Nap in His Crib
I started letting my kids cry it out at around a year old and they learned REAL QUICK how to soothe themselves with soft toys. M. mom of two. Helpful? ...
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- Start off by putting the bouncy seat in the crib and eventually wean him back to the crib without the seat. My daughter slept her naps in the swing forever! You just...
- I would say tough love. Your son has been adapted to this. Hopefully he will not crawl out of his crib, but I would place him there and sit on the floor. The each d...
- What I did was when my kids would take a nap, I would continue with my day time stuff, like washing dishes, talking on the phone, vacum, you know, and they slept perfe...
5 Year Old Being Bullied at School and Not Liking the Kindergarten School.
4 Sep 2009 ... But you have to keep in mind that the real world is not all peaches ... Our job as good Mommies is not to protect them from the cruel world, ...
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- I just wanted to chime in. Our son's school is also not like this. We are in Fort Bend County and they are very strict on being respectful to each other and they hav...
- I'm sorry. My sister went through a similar situation with her daughter when she was in school last year. In the end, she DID end up having to homeschool her. I rea...
- I'm very sorry for how your daughter is feeling right now. I don't have a lot of advice for you, except to say that your daughter's experience sounds very typical. W...
Miscarriage
Ask a question, get advice from millions of moms .... grieve..this is not somehting small, this was real and you should not brush it under the carpet. ...
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- read this ... it might help.www.whazzup.typepad.com/moving_on
- What you're feeling is part of the normal process of grieving. Don't beat yourself up over what you're feeling now, and although it's a lot easier to say "don't feel...
- Of course you are not being to emotional! I know what you are going through, I just had one in the end of Sept begining of Oct and I did the same thing I questioned q...
Baby Food: Pre-made or Make It for My 6 Month Old?
I just made it chunkier... there was not transition from some other flavor to real... Best... 1 mom found this helpful. Helpful? ...
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- Hi there, This is a great question. I have made all of my son's food and he is 11 1/2 months old now. Now it is getting harder to be creative; however, one of the...
- lots of answers so i won't get too into it, but make your own baby food!!!! it is a lot more work than just buying it, but it's not all that bad and it is WORTH it! ...
- I also went back to work and totally understand how you feel. Like others that have posted, I gave my son a combination of jarred and homemade food. What I found eas...
Vacation
Having been on the working mom side and the stay at home mom side, I have no real understanding of thinking that it is selfish to have a babysitter. ...
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- heck no this isnt selfish. if i could make the arrangements i would do the same!
- No, I don't think it's selfish. Moms need time to relax and rejuvenate and no one is going to make that happen for us. Good for her that she arranged everything so tha...
- My parents never took us along on their vacations. They would leave my brother and I with our grandparents and go off in their car for a week. They didn't say where ...
Help with Recurring Pinworms
5 Aug 2009 ... Hello Mommies My now 7 yr old keeps getting pinworms The last .... No real advice except for you HAVE to get him to stop biting his nails ...
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- My son who is now 17 had this in the 1st or 2nd grade and he did not have an oral fixation. We felt that he got it from playing in the sand box. Has your child been ...
- He is 7 and still putting things in his mouth all the time? You will have to make him deal with the worms and remind him as to why he got them. The sand is a real pla...
- No real advice except for you HAVE to get him to stop biting his nails and putting things in his mouth. His pain is being caused by his bad habits. He has to be told...
