I am severely intolerant to any dairy products (milk, cheese, skim milk, yoghurt etc) and do not eat meat. I am currently 49 kg and am 5 foot 8. Even when I was 9 mths pregnant I was only 57 kg. Most weight gain formulas etc have dairy in them. i drink neocate and I hate it, it’s a specialised dairy free infant formula. Any ideas please. Im so tired of being so thin and all my hair is falling out.

I start housetraining my pups as soon as they are relatively mobile and have their eyes open (about 3 weeks). For years I used a litterbox, now I use puppy pads (the litter used to get stuck to the puppy blankets and strewn through the house). I’ve had great success. A lot of the training seems to be in noticing when the pups “look” like they have to go… which of course means I have to be actually spending time watching pups….
Today I stumbled across this http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070827/ap_o… and it talks about potty training very young infants. The concept seems very similar to my puppy training.
Do you think more people would be successful housetraining their dogs if they used the same principles as potty training kids?

ok am i the only one who thinks this is just a really stupid idea or what? ok so im due in 3 weeks and my parents are trying to tell me that we are going to be having open houses and stuff like 2 weeks after the baby is born. and im having a c section. ok im pretty sure im not going to be ready to do much in two weeks afterwards let alone keep the house looking spotless and clutter and baby free and leave the house for 3 to 4 hours so some strangers can go in and touch everything. no way! i duno what to do. he said i have no choice. im on the verge of screaming and crying, they are saying i cant have alot of baby stuff around the house. so somehow i have to fit all this baby stuff in my room including all my toddlers stuff clean at the same time so people can come and look at the house whenever they want. what if someone comes over that is sick? i have 2 babies that can get sick. am i over reacting or is this just not right?

What are GOOD free sites where I can enter my baby into photo contests??

I received a free sample of formula in the mail. Its two big containers of it and its the same brand I use just a different type. Would it be alright for me to use it so it does not go to waste or is it not a good idea to switch it like that?

ok so i go to this thing every week where i can get 24 diapers free a week and i get the choice of newborn 1 2 &3. what i need help figureing out since am not sure how quickly average babies grow out of the different sizes is how many of each size should i get. i got 23 weeks. i could do it semi evenly and do 5 weeks of getting newborn and the 6 weeks getting size one and so on. i hope this makes since. should i do it evenly or will i need less size one and way more size 3?

I just can’t get this outta the back of my mind!!! My baby shower was in May and my mother in law didn’t get me a gift for the baby. Now, I’m not one who’s out to get stuff for free, this isn’t about money, but to me it’s about the moral of the whole idea. A couple of days after my baby shower(which was at my mother in law’s home, which by the way her contribution was having the shower in her home, she didn’t even clean up before hand, and she made macaroni salad…and my mother paid for EVERYTHING else) my inlaw complained to me that she was running low on cash since the shower…now months before the inlaws told me they’d get me a swing for the baby…the next day my mother in law told me she’d buy the swing and then mentioned again days later how low on cash she was running. so i told my husband to tell her not to buy the swing until she had the extra money…’cause the last thing I’d want to do was put them out of cash to buy daily necessities. So he told his mom….THEN…within the next week my sister in law (also, prego…due 6 weeks after me…I was june and she was july) finds the “crib” of her dreams….and yep mommy went and bought it for her…needless to say I bought my own swing and they bought nothing. I found out later on that my father in law gave my mother in law the $$$ in the beginning of may for the swing and it was never bought!!! Also, just in conversation my mother in law mentioned that she had had a blanket knitted for my step son when he was born and this and that(8yrs ago)…plus his bday feel a weeks before my child was born and she spent money right in front of me buying him quite a few gifts for his birthday!!! I have a pretty descend job and my inlaws know i make descend money…so I’m not sure if that’s the reason or not that she won’t buy my son anything!!! My feeling are so hurt by this. I know that my mother in law loves my son, so why’d she do this….and it’ been mentioned that they ( the inlaws) know they still haven’t bought the baby anything…i don’t think it’s a cash issue ’cause my father in law just bought a $4000 toy!!! I couldn’t stand it and I told my mother in law my feelings very nicely(don’t know if I should have) and she responded with “well…your just sooo hard to please, I didn’t think you’d like anything I got for you”…she had no basis to go off of with that remark…idk…but I just can’t get her frugalness outta my head everytime I see her!!!

what’s better, pampers or huggies? i bought a box of 152 pampers nappies today as they were on offer, but i also got a free starter kit from huggies which included 27 nappies.
a few people have told me that huggies are better, i’m unsure which other nappies to buy? i’m trying to stock up now on them so i don’t have the financial inconvience of them later on, but i’m unsure whether to continue to buy them both, or just one certain kind?
any opinions on this?

Now my first problem is that I live with my husband parents and we have a baby. But if anyone who is kinda in the same situation, did they find their mother in law way more annoying or overbearing when they had a baby? I mean my mother in law is over bearing and gives advice when its not need but I can’t stand her now. We live with her and she will go in and walk the baby up in the morning before she goes to work, kisses all over him, calls and is like let me talk to him, claims him as hers and I can’t stand it. I have tried to set boundaries but its not work. She wants to do all the firsts with him like feed him his first bowl of baby cereral, had to be involved with the first bath and all that and I can not stand it. I have told my husband but he’s like we have to deal with it because she lets us live there for free, buys all our food, constantly buys stuff for the baby and I just don’t know what to do any more!
Any advice, stories, comments. This is kinda a venting story but..

I am so bored and i need something to play on.
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