moodycow

@moodycow (42)

United States • Age 44

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Diabetes and pregnancy

beyonce03 @beyonce03 (2331) • Canada 22 Oct 07

1 week ago, my doctor told me that I had gestionall diabetes. So I met a nutritionnist and I thought that I would only ave to reduce some things that I'M eating. I have to calculate everything. I can't eat like I want anymore....

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moodycow I had it when I was pregnant with my daughter. I was miserable!! I remember crying several times trying to shop for food that would fit into the diet plan. I was able to control my sugar levels by sticking to the diet, but it was very hard. If you follow the...

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my baby's teeth

angelhuihui @angelhuihui (264) • China 18 Oct 07

My baby will one years old now, but he teeth have only 4, is it stranger? anyone answer me?

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moodycow My daughter is now almost 18 months old and she still only has 4 teeth.

19 Oct 07

How long did you breastfeed? Would you do it again?

rachelcaron @rachelcaron (1679) • United States 20 Aug 07

Did you breastfeed your baby/babies? How long did you do it for each one? For my son, I made it to 6 months. I didn't have such a great experience. I had a lot of problems. Yes, I did meet with a couple lactation consultants,...

babies

baby

breastfeed

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moodycow I breastfed my daughter until she was 15 months old. I had problems with my milk supply due to a medice change and I found a Dr that gave me Metoclopramide and it really helped increase my supply. My goal was to feed at least a year and I'm glad I made it. I...

30 Aug 07

Our 3rd year of marriage but 1st anniversary together!

Married2aMarine @Married2aMarine (1273) • United States 23 May 07

Yesterday, hubby and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary. Our 1st year together, he was away for training. Our 2nd year, he was deployed. So, this is the 1st time we're able to celebrate it together. He was supposed to be in...

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moodycow Congrats on your anniversary! My hubby and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary last Sat. He is also a Marine so I know how deployments suck! He was in boot camp for our first anniversary, and I think he was home for our 2nd. Then I think he was in...

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Do you become forgetful after delivery?

youless @youless (112496) • Guangzhou, China 12 May 07

Here people always say when a woman is pregnant, she will become stupid. I disagree to it. When I was pregnant, I even passed the French exam:) My IQ wasn't lower and somewhat I thought it was higher. As I had another little brain...

delivery

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moodycow My daughter is a year old and I still have my pregnant brain! My husband and I were watching a show about how during pregnancy a woman's brain actually physically shrinks. I guess they could monitor it with a CT scan or something and could see that it gets...

12 May 07

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Did or do you celebrate your child 1st birthday?

caesarin @caesarin (1089) • Indonesia 12 May 07

I didn't celebrate my daughter 1st birthday. I just went for dinner with my family, that's it. No my friends with their children, no clowns and no birthday cake. I thought at this stage, she doesn't understand what is birthday...

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moodycow We gave our daughter a piece of cake and put a party hat on her for her birthday and then that weekend we went to see family and had a little party at a park. We had lunch and a cake for everyone. It was more a get together for family and a chance to see her...

12 May 07

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What age do babies start trying to talk??

rndistgg @rndistgg (109) • United States 2 May 07

At what age do babies start trying to say actual words and understand what baba, dada and mama means? My 10 month old waves and says bye bye when we say bye bye and calls her daddy dada but she wont call me mama...she says it a...

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moodycow My daughter turned 1 yesterday and at her Dr appt today I was told that she should be saying 3-5 real words by the time that she's 15 months old. I think I read that they can start talking from 10-18 months. My daughter doesn't say any real words yet. She...

2 May 07

collecting points

poppoppop111 @poppoppop111 (5731) • Canada 2 May 07

did you collect the diaper points to claim toys, or the points on the baby food. what did you get for turning in your points. i started saving the diaper ones but never did anything with them. i made my own baby food so i had no...

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moodycow I collect the pampers points. I've only got about 100 points so far so I haven't gotten anything with them yet. I figure since my daughter is only a year old, by the time she can use some of the big toys, maybe I'll have enough points to get her something...

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Taking sick children out in public

mememama @mememama (3076) • United States 2 May 07

I know kids get sick, that's just a fact of life. But this recent cold my son has had kind of makes me mad. We were at the playground (I know all of my posts are about playgrounds lol) and I saw a kid with snot streaming out of...

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moodycow I don't take my daughter out when she's sick unless I don't have a choice and even then I try to keep her away from other people or let them know to keep their kids away. We were at a playgroup and this lady brought her daughter and made a point of saying...

2 May 07

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What age do you STOP giving baby food?

rndistgg @rndistgg (109) • United States 2 May 07

At what age do you stop giving your baby Baby Food?? What are nutricious items that you can give them when you stop the baby food?

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moodycow I just took my daughter for her 1 year appt today and asked the Dr about this. She said that her meals now should mainly be big people food. She said the baby food doesn't have much taste and she'll start to prefer our food anyway. We've been giving her some...

2 May 07

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How often do you buy your children toys?

mememama @mememama (3076) • United States 27 Apr 07

I have to admit that lately he gets a new toy about every week. He's 20 months and he has a lot of babyish toys that he's outgrown, so everytime I go to the store I find something cool. Now he loves the Little People toys, so I'm...

buying toys

children

toys

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moodycow I have to talk myself out of buying something for my daughter every time I go to the store. I'll usually find something I think she's just got to have and walk around the store with it arguing with myself in my head about how she has a million toys already and...

27 Apr 07

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Stay At Home MOM or do you Work?

babygurl850406 @babygurl850406 (1322) • United States 26 Apr 07

Are you a stay at home mom or do you work part time or full time? do you work at home? i am a stay at home mommy starting work here at home

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moodycow I am a stay at home mom. I'm so glad that we can afford for me to stay home. It was really important for both of us so I'm glad it working out. On the other hand I'm also slowly going crazy from the lack of adult conversation!! I would love to find a job I...

27 Apr 07

Choosing your child(rens) name

nica269 @nica269 (1395) • United States 27 Apr 07

What was your process for choosing your childrens name? Was it a simple thing or did you go thru a gruling (sp) process to figure out what to name him/her? For us, it was a pretty simple process. Before we got pregnant we were...

baby names

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moodycow I kept a notebook and everytime I came across a name I liked I wrote it down. I wrote down alternate spellings for some just so I could see how they looked. My hubby was in Iraq so I would email him my list of names and he would tell me which ones he liked...

27 Apr 07

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what is the best time to stop Breastfeeding?

aj2006 @aj2006 (1534) • Philippines 26 Apr 07

I have a one year old daughter, eversince she's born, I religiously breastfeed her.. ( thanks, for that! we saved a lot ) At this point, she has a lot of teeth and she is starting to bite me as well, I wonder if it's okay to stop...

breastfeeding

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moodycow My daughter will be a year old on Tuesday. I plan to cut out the breastfeeding during the day and give her milk in a sippy cup. I think I'll keep nursing her at night because it's so much easier to get her to sleep that way. I noticed another post that talked...

27 Apr 07

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Plastic Srugery for Mom

xoShannonNCxo @xoShannonNCxo (146) • United States 25 Apr 07

Did anyone have plastic srugery to help get back to their body before baby? If you did what did you do, and if you want to, then what would you have done? I've always said that after I have children I would have a tummy tuck.

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moodycow My friend and I were talking about how we would like to have a breast lift after we are done having and nursing our children. My lovely hubby made a comment about how big they would have to make our boobs to fill in the extra skin from them being stretched so...

25 Apr 07

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I am tired of feeling Alone!

mostlysunny @mostlysunny (21) • United States 25 Apr 07

I am married with two kids however my hubby is gone a lot with job and all of the family stuff lies on me. If there were not so much going wrong lately maybe I wouldnt fee this waybut I am so tired of dealing with it al by myself....

mother

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moodycow I know how you feel. My hubby works a least a 12 hour day 5, sometimes 6 or 7days a week. Our daughter will be a year old next Tue so I'm not having to deal with the same stuff you are. We just moved to a different state and I don't have any friends here. I...

25 Apr 07

Epidural, Medicated or Natural Labor during childbirth? Which one did you have?

Netmoney @Netmoney (144) • United States 20 Apr 07

When I gave birth to my first daughter, I realized the labor pain was much more than I cared to handle after a few hours. Before my labor began, I remember saying I would have a natural birthing process and avoid any medications...

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moodycow I had NO intention of having a natural birth. I knew I wanted the epidural before I got pregnant! Well when I went to the hospital after my water broke they ended up giving my pitocin to speed up my contractions. I had already filled out the paperwork prior to...

20 Apr 07

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Psychic child

zandi458 @zandi458 (28102) • Malaysia 19 Apr 07

Do you believe that a child can have psychic power? My daughter has, I believe, psychic power. At one time, she claimed to see angels and spirits. Sometimes she talked about it and sometimes she refuse to share about it. Do you...

abnormal child

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psychic power

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moodycow I've heard the psychics on TV say that children are more sensitive than adults and can see spirits. Syliva Brown is on Montel every week and she always says that when someone asks about their kids seeing spirits.

19 Apr 07

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Breastfeeding! I know all mom's have an opinion...

emma412 @emma412 (1156) • United States 18 Apr 07

Okay, how many moms are or were breastfeeding? How many formula feeding? How painful was it for you? I was in terrible pain the first week, in tears every night. I was determined to make it work though (have you seen the price of...

breastfeeding

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moodycow I've been breastfeeding my daughter for 11.5 months so far. The first week, when my milk came in I cried a lot too. If it hadn't been for my hubby helping and supporting me I would have quit! It was important to both of us so I'm glad he was there to help. As...

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Do you have nicknames for your children???

creematee @creematee (2810) • United States 13 Apr 07

The reason why I ask is I was recently in a grocery store and was calling to my kids. I used their nicknames so they would come to me. An older woman tsked at me and told me how awful it was to give children names that they will...

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moodycow We started calling our daughter "piggy". Neither of us can remember why or where it came from. We use it so much we have to make a effort to use her real name so she can learn it. We use variations of piggy like piggysaurus and piggystiltskins, just stupid...

13 Apr 07

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