Archive Monthly Archives: July 2011
Ashley’s Story: A Fussy Baby & Postpartum Depression
Haylie was born in April 2009 and nothing about it was easy. I had gestational hypertension, so at 38 weeks they decided to induce me. 48 hours later, I wouldn’t dilate past 9cm and they decided
Continue readingMy Plea to Pediatric Health Care Professionals
My husband dared me to write this post, so if you are offended by it, blame him. Well, actually he dared me to title this post Breastfeeding Nazis, but I didn’t quite have the guts to do that. Let
Continue readingShocking Research on Infant Colic
An article was published this week on the psychology of infant colic. The results may come as a shock to you, but this scholarly review of the current research indicated that colic still sucks. I am paraphrasing
Continue readingJust the Way He Is
When Sam was 4 months old, I remember writing a blog post titled Just the Way He Is on my now-defunct blog. The magical 12-16 week mark had passed, and yet the crying and fussing continued. We had been
Continue readingCheril’s Story: A Fussy Baby & Sleep Issues
Our firstborn, Adrian, was born after a long, hard labor. Latching was a difficult process that took over a month to develop; I used a shield to help him to latch for feeding time for a month. We tried
Continue readingSleep Training A High Need Baby
Recently a mom on our Facebook page asked about sleep training her high need 5 month old son. She wrote: We have a 5mth old. He has needed to be bounced to sleep, but has now gotten to heavy for me to
Continue readingJennifer’s Story: Having 2 High Need Babies
After a nearly two year struggle we were finally pregnant with our first child. Other than gestational diabetes I had a trouble-free pregnancy. At 39 weeks the doctor decided to induce labor out of fear
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