LatinSicilian

I have a 7 week old baby and from the get-go I have had a little trouble producing milk. Refusing to use formula exclusively, and after his first 2 weeks, we began supplementing my breastfeedings with formula if he wasn't satisfied enough (I would breastfeed til I wasn't producing anymore for that period of time and my nipples were sore). He's always satisfied after I follow with the formula supplement. My friend recommended using lactation supplements, so I began using them and they worked (!!) but only for the first 2 or 3 weeks of taking them (til he was about 5 weeks). Recently he's been really unsatisfied with the breastfeedings (and I only produce enough milk for him if he skips a breastfed feeding). I cut out exercising and dieting for the past 2 weeks. I've been eating plenty of oatmeal as I heard it naturally helps with lactation and have increased my water intake. I have seen no improvements. He's unsatisfied the majority of the time, especially now that he has moved up to 4- 4 1/2 oz feedings.

I plan on seeing a lactation consultant soon. Did anyone else have these issues? What helped you resolve it? I'd hate to go to exclusive formula feedings but I'm starting to feel it's my only solution. It makes me feel inadequate as a mother...our body's are made to produce! Why isn't mine? :(

My sister just turned 13 about 2 months ago and in the seventh grade. I've noticed lately that she comes home from school later, she gets in trouble with her school more (D-Hall, failing grades, tardies etc), she doesn't hang out with all her friends like she use to, and she's been unreasonably disrespectful and rude to our own mother.

Well come to find out about 2 or 3 weeks ago that she has a boyfriend. Now she's had her little boyfriends before but her attitude has changed so much that I have become concerned. More AT FIRST for the sake of her schooling...

ANYWAYS, so all this concern has really been building up lately. Her academic progress has dropped dramatically and I feel it might be because she's too concerned about her new boyfriend. My mom asked her for her cell phone one time just so she could hold it so my sister finished her homework....well my sister gives her the phone and it shows that she was deleting all her messages. Which makes me go from concerned to suspicious as well.

Tonight, I couldn't help it. My sister fell asleep and left her phone out...and I looked through her messages. I feel really guilty about doing it, because I know I'd hate for someone to look through my personal stuff but I found texts from her boyfriend speaking of how he saw her boobs, how he got a b*ner, and also of how she gave him a hand job. Her replies were just to the lines of embarrassed lol's and talking about her body.

I'm scared, disappointed, and devastated. I always stood up for her when my mother would be suspicious and I would say "No, my sisters a smart girl, she knows what's right. I know her." Come to find out....I really don't.

Many of the females in my family have had a child by the age of 17. I don't want her to end up like my cousins. No job. No education. Fully dependent on the fathers. I want her to have a future. Do well in school. And save herself til she's at least mature enough to deal with the consequences. I never had sex til I was just about to turn 18 years (by choice). I am now 21 years old, with a degree in Commercial Art and am preparing to have my first child (Due in Sept). And even though I've accomplished a lot of what I wanted before having a child, I still feel I MYSELF could've waited longer.

How do I talk to her about this? Should I mention the cell phone? Should I inform my mother of what I discovered? I'm just so confused. I don't want her to hate me. I love her dearly. But I feel being blunt and strict might be the only way to get it through her head...help please?

My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 6 months now. We have had a very open relationship with each other, I have told him everything and I thought he did as well.In past relationships my boyfriend has told me that he had a miscarriage with a girl before and also that he had tried to have a child with a long-time girlfriend but failed for what was unknown. The first of which he just recently told me last month and stung just a little, but I said "It's a part of his past, and that's not where he is now so I'll brush it aside".

I'm 21 years old and last month I found out I was pregnant. I felt mixed emotions about it, happy, excited, scared....mostly scared because of my mother and her high expectations. Well today we broke the news to her that I am pregnant. My boyfriend assured her that he would be there the whole way through and he wants us to be a family. BUT THEN, he also reveals that he had a baby with a girl who had an abortion and how he would never want that again. He never told me this and to find out not only 6 months into the relationship, but in front of my mother was shocking!!

I told myself again that it was in the past and I should brush it aside but I can't. He tried to have a baby with one girl, and had two girls pregnant (unplanned). Our pregnancy wasn't planned either. Its made me feel different and I hate it. I feel like I'm just like "another girl" he got pregnant. He tries to assure me that I'm not just another girl, but the feeling doesn't escape my heart.

How should I deal? I know things take time, so since this just happened tonight should I just sleep it off and see how I feel tomorrow? Am I overreacting? How would you feel? I'm so lost. I want to go back to a normal relationship but finding something big such as this, in this situation, now is a little hard for me.