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Racecar engineering news | motorsport technology explained - http://www.racecar-engineering.com/

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World’s leading race cars and motorsport technology website. Engineering for racing cars – F1, NASCAR, rally, Daytona, Le Mans | Racecar Engineering Magazine - Doug Patterson

Doug, I really want to like some of your posts, but I really don't understand most of 'em. Cars have a gas pedal, a brake of some sort and a gas tank. That's the limit of what I "get" about them... Oh - and sometimes, when I'm not paying attention, they go really fast... ;) - The name I really want...

josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

It's Friday, people! Woo hoo!

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Swoon... - The name I really want...

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WOO-HOO! And it's the Friday before Halloween, which means I can eat all the candy corn I want! - cecily

Mmmmmm.... candy corn.... glglglglglglgg - Spidra Webster

And now I want candy pumpkins. Mmmmmmmm. - cecily

laura x to laura's feed, LSW

Please say hello to people the Humanities Matter! conference here in Wyoming! And if you have any humanities related blogs, Twitter feeds, or what have you to recommend, please do that, too.

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hello, everyone! Twitter feeds: @dancohen, @foundhistory, @anarchivist - D0r0th34

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Hello! Humanities DO matter. :-) - lris

Hello. - Joe.... from iPod

Hey folks! - Katy S

Hello! - megan brooks

hello from @ashuping - Sir Shuping

Hello from Kansas City! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

Hello from the San Francisco airport! - Jenica

Hello from Mid-Missouri!! - The name I really want...

Hi from a Humanities librarian. Lemme dig up some links - Steve is older than ever

Howdy from New York City! I'm working on a guide to literature resources in my library right now. http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/content... - Stephen Francoeur

Hello from Charlotte NC! - Mike Nencetti

Try @creativecommons and @chronicle - Joe.... from iPod

Hello from Chicagoland! - Betsy (bentley) Vera

Hiya from Nashville, TN! - ~Courtney F.

Hello from Nashville! - Rachel Walden

Howdy from OKC! - Kirsten

@dancohen from GMU - Joe.... from iPod

Well, hello!!!! - marthalib

I'm in Minneapolis. It is snowing - marthalib

@archivists_org - Joe.... from iPod

Thanks, all! And keep those links coming. Little do you know, but you are building the recommended reading list for this presentation. - laura x

These aren't social media sites, but they are cool: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/intro..., http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya..., http://www.poets.org/page... - marthalib

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org - Joe.... from iPod

http://mashable.com/2009... 100 authors on twitter - marthalib

Hi folks at Humanities Matter. I hope to get out to your pretty state soon. Oh, I am from Maryland. - ♫Geek in the 410♫

http://www.hastac.org/ - D0r0th34

http://portfolio.du.edu/showard take a look at the three journals he works on. - Joe.... from iPod

Hi! I'm slow to respond, but hi from Tucson! - ÉllbeeÇee

Hi, albeit maybe too late to count. From California, and also haven't been to Wyoming...yet. - Walt Crawford

Walt, you've never seen Yellowstone? - Joe.... from iPod

I've never seen Yellowstone. - marthalib

Nope. Some day...honestly, we've been better on seeing the world (we're not big driving fans), and since I've never been asked to speak in Wyoming... - Walt Crawford

Well, if I'm ever in a position to do so, I'll invite you to speak in Wyoming, Walt. . . although if you don't like driving, you will be at some disadvantage here. But there's some lovely country, both in the parks and out of them. - laura x

Hey now...some of us east coasters would not mind speaking gigs in the great state of Wyoming young lady. - ♫Geek in the 410♫

*adds the Geek to her list* - laura x

when the kids move away and my wife gets smart and leaves me for a younger man I'd move to Wyoming in a heartbeat... wide open spaces plus straight roads to dive fast on & beautiful mountains plus twisty roads to drive quick on :) - Aaron the Librarian

I almost wound up working in Montana. It's magnificent country. - D0r0th34

Marie is organized.

My doctor is already running late, and it's just 9:30am.

October 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Your doctor is clearly not organized, eh? That sucks, too - I try to make early appointments to avoid that sort of thing... - The name I really want...

Anika

66 degrees? A high of 66 degrees today? *faints* I guess It's time to bust out the scarves and gloves.

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Yay! Sweater weather! - Derrick

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Its LOVELY!!! - Mary Carmen

er... 66 is shorts weather, people :) - Aaron the Librarian

Don't listen to Aaron the librarian!! He considers anything above 0 degrees F to be shorts weather!!! - The name I really want...

I'm with Aaron. It needs to be less than 50 for the lightest of sweaters. I don't break out my super-heavy thick sweaters until we have single digits. - Katy S

No. :\ - AJ Batac

It's been a high of 50 here. My house is set at 65 during the winter - Lindsey is Fierce!

Well, I will be wearing a long sleeve shirt under my sweater all under my jacket. Definitely a hat. It's FREEZING. - Anika

Y'all are just now coming off of triple digit weather, right? I can understand why you'd feel cold. I always do if we have an extreme dip in temperature right after it's been warm. Eventually my body adjusts, though. Plus, I'm a cold-weather climate person. - Katy S

I always think the cold is better, because I can cover myself up from it. Ain't the same with heat. - Parth Awasthi

With the heat you can just get naked and that's way better than being bundled. - Anika from fftogo

Louise Alcorn

9.12 DC TEA PARTY - MARCH FOOTAGE WITH INTERVIEWS - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Grrrrrrrr.......... also - Glen Beck & logical thinker DO NOT belong in the same sentence. Grrrrrrrr - The name I really want...

lris

A young kitten spent the last hour and a half thwarting my attempts to rescue it. It did consent to eat copious amounts of cat food, though. I'll come back tomorrow and try again.

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getting pippin a new friend? :) - Sir Shuping

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NO! Hopefully finding a co-worker to foist it onto. - lris

"onto which I can foist it." Never end a sentence with a preposition. - DJF

LOL - my son came to me the other day complaining that he's getting teased because I insist on proper grammar at home. He said something like that and one of his friends started calling him grammar boy. I was so proud... - The name I really want...

David, that comment bespeaks a strictness up with which I will not put. - lris

Iris++ for Churchill reference. - DJF

Up with which I shall not put. . . although perhaps Iris was being emphatic. :-) - laura x

STOP IT ALL OF YOU GRAMMAR WONKS! Kitten! Rescue! Drama! - Steve is older than ever

Iris, you're a good egg! - Mary Carmen

That's how we acquired the Mouser, y'know. - D0r0th34

La la la la. *fingers in ears* - lris

One more grammar note: That really isn't a rule. Rather, its an attempt by some upper class snobs during the 18th century to separate themselves from the lower classes with a (terribly misguided) attempt to apply latin-based rules on English. That's why some of these constructions end up being so awkward - they really aren't meant for English. - Katy S

As far as the kitteh goes - hooray for saving kittens!! If you feed it, it will soon be friendly. - Katy S

Katy, I love you for pointing that out! The fact is, English has NO grammar rules, only traditions & habits. One of the reasons why I love the language so much. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

That's the hope, Katy. I'll go back tomorrow and spend some time sitting there and feeding it. Maybe I'll bring a towel and a cat carrier too... *schemes* - lris

that's how we acquired two cats last summer. well, that and the neighbor boy got arrested, and the landlords would have nothing to do with making sure his cat was taken care of. :( - Elaine Nelson

Iris - if you have a cat toy on a stick - or even some ribbon - you can entice a cat closer through play. Growing up on the farm, I did this all of the time with the feral and semi-feral cats that came around. - Katy S

I tried that, Katy, but while it REALLY wanted to play with the end of my earbuds, they were ultimately still too close to me to be safe. I hope to overcome that shyness via food. - lris

Katy & Josh, yes, I know that the "rules" are things that somebody made up based on latin (the split infinitive one is really dumb, since in latin the infinitive is a single word, so there's nothing to split). Mostly I'm ok with ending sentences with a preposition, but that doesn't mean I can't be pedantic to humourous effect. - DJF

Yeah, the split infinitive thing is dumb, although I still can't bring myself to split them. But I'm sort of sad that we've lost the distinction between shall and will (the former is emphatic in the 2nd and 3rd person, while the latter is emphatic for the 1st). But I accept that I am one of probably three people who feels this way. - laura x

KITTENS, yo. - D0r0th34

A friend has procured a live trap. I have a supply of smelly, irresistible wet cat food. This afternoon, we will go kitty hunting. - lris

Also, this thread is hilarious. - lris

GRAMMAR KITTEH - DO ANYBODY NO Laura B.

Kitteh generosity beats grammar badness. - Wirehead

The kitten declined to show itself, but we baited the live trap. Just watch, we'll catch a raccoon.... - lris

Nope. Not a raccoon. Another stray cat, though. Both of us were surprised. - lris

Wait, you ended up with another stray now? It is time for Paula to the rescue, I think. - Kristin Partlo

LSW: Becca

Has anyone put a program together like The Big Read or One Community One Book and not gone through the actual company? I'm trying to program something like this, but keep costs down. OR...maybe you have done the program with a company...which one and how was it received?

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We've done both. For the one we did on our own, our Foundation just bought a bunch of paperbacks of the book, and the author, who is local to Wyoming and loves libraries and will thus come for gas money and a six-pack of Rainier Ale, cans preferred, came to talk for all three libraries. We also did a Big Read program. Both were fairly well-received. We relied a lot on local talent for associated programming with the Big Read program (local profs giving talks, that kind of thing). - laura x

We've just done the home-grown thing. Our Collection Dev. librarian is in charge of it and she's genius at getting local experts and such to come in and talk about themes of the book during the events. I don't think we've ever used a company to manage our program. - The name I really want...

@Laura and @ASimpleSailor, both are exactly what I'm getting at! I guess for now, I'm just trying to come up with a way to pay for the mass of paperbacks that are bought. I'm just in the early stages of planning...but want to do it sometime this Fall! - Becca

The Archangel ωαřмaiden

Calling yourself a "unique individual" is both redundant and dull. Think of something with more pep. Like, Maharini of Awesomesauce

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I prefer the term "eccentric." - Katy S

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I think I'll change my job title to "Clown Prince of Web Content." - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

I'm thinking "Web Dominatrix". - Louise Alcorn

I've been working toward "Queen of Everything" for a while now... - Jenica

"Other duties as assigned" for me! - Christa

Yeah, whatever, Jenica. I'm headed for Queen of the Universe. We might have to fight it out. - ÉllbeeÇee

LBC, we can tag-team it and assign duties to Christa. :) - Jenica

Well, I often want to claim "Queen of the World" - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

awesome. We always need someone for Other Duties As Assigned. :) - ÉllbeeÇee

I'm pretty happy with Web Goddess. I think I'll be keeping it. Though I'd be happy to start assigning duties to Christa! - The name I really want...

Thanks for making fun of me. - Jill is sugar free

I'm the gooey, cheesy topping that makes the library pizza taste sooooo gooooood. - ǎňňǎ

If you don't think being a Walmart Greeter makes me a Unique Individual, then you're stupid. Good Day. - Kaia Olatunde-Glassmeyer

@owlie - erm. You didnt have a corner on the market of using that phrase - it appears quite often. In recent application letters I've seen, even. You can call yourself whatever you want :) - The Archangel ωαřмaiden

I would certainly never use it in an application letter. I used it here mostly out of laziness. - Jill is sugar free

Maharini makes me think of tahini. now i am hungry - Kaia Olatunde-Glassmeyer

Sarah Robbins

#geekpoll since it's back to school time what's one online tool that you think no student should be without? delicious? end note? gdocs?

August 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Zotero! - Jàson Puçkett

since Zotero is already taken, I'll go with Evernote - The name I really want...

Steve is older than ever

NOT happy with Dreamhost, which has had absurd amounts of downtime lately. More like Nightmarehost #amirite?

August 21 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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me too! I just moved to them, I was wondering if this was *normal* grumble grumble - Bobbi Newman

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It was normal while I was hosted with them. It's why I moved. VERY happy with http://synhosting.com/ I hardly ever hear from them and that's JUST the way I like it. (There was one incident about a month ago with a really bad DDoS against their whole infrastructure, but they managed it like pros.) I DO NOT WANT to think about my webhosting. Synhost means I don't hafta. - D0r0th34

I've had excellent luck with http://laughingsquid.net/ - Catherine Pellegrino

I've been very pleased with hostgator (www.hostgator.com), both reliability and price... - The name I really want...

I've not had any problems with dreamhost lately. Maybe I'm oblivious or just lucky. - Kendra K

tab thinks you're awesome

I am hating my hair.

August 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

add a nice bright color to it :) - Sir Shuping

Ohhhh - pink stripes would look really nice! - The name I really want...

I was thinking about pink stripes!! - tab thinks you're awesome

LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43

How Much Do You Pay for Your Cellphone Plan? - http://lifehacker.com/5335224...

August 11 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"How much do you pay your cellphone provider for your plan? $10-$20 $20-$40 $40-$60 $60-$80 $80 and above Other:" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

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I'm at $80+ - LANjackal

I pay about £40 a month, which turns out to be roughly $55 to $60 in US terms... tho I get 600 free minutes and 400 free texts. - alphaxion

$35/month with 400 anytime minutes, 1000 night/weekend minutes, and 200 texts. - Miss Elle

I'm in the $80+ category, but that is for 2 lines with unlimited everything except talk, which we get 400 to share - more than enough since both of us text instead of call when we can. - The name I really want...

Too much because I have an iPhone - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

I kinda know what that's like, I used to be with AT&T. They really do nickel and dime the hell out of you - LANjackal from IM

Less than 70 for Sprint; less than 70 for T-Mobile. Oh, crap, I pay a heck of a lot! - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Too much. - Kevin Mohr

2 iPhones on AT&T, 700 measley minutes, and we pay about $180 a month. It's almost embarassing. - Dan Dashnaw from BuddyFeed

How about 10€ ($14), which includes 5€ for calls, above that based on usage. On second phone pre-paid at 0.11€/min and 0.24€/MB dataplan. Incoming SMS and calls free. - Nils Sandin

I was this close to going from 1G iPhone to 3GS today, then realized it would be another $15/mo over my existing plan (for unlimited data and 200 texts), and decided to wait a bit longer... - Denise Howell

MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Is there anyone on Twitter that isn't a Social Media Marketing Networking Partnership Expert?

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Nope. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

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me - chaz2b

DAMMIT I forgot SEO in that! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

But chaz I'm already subbed to you... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Me! I'm a social media marketing networking LIBRARY SEO expert! - The name I really want...

Me! - Alex Scoble

Me! I'm my own damn expert and not a good one at that. - Zach Flauaus

uh-oh... - Thom Kennon

By "on Twitter," do you mean "visits every day?" Because my Twitter account preceded my FF account (and I suppose it will outlast it, but I will see). - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Me. ... Not yet, anyway. - Steven Perez

Bobbi Newman

Information Overload Awareness Day - http://www.informationoverloadday.com/

August 11 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Does holding a conference to impart yet more information on Information Overload Awareness Day seem kind of weird? ...It's just me, isn't it... - Fiacre O'Duinn

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It's not just you. Trust me on this. - Walt Crawford

if you look at the schedule the whole thing is a bit odd, there is a listing of speakers but not much about what they are going to talk about - Bobbi Newman

I saw that yesterday - it's sponsored by a commercial company and looks a little like a whole day of vendor sales pitches to me... - The name I really want...

Meredith

Breast vs. bottle and mommy judgmentalism - http://blog.wolfwater.com/2009...

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You are totally awesome. I agree 110%. :) - Rochelle

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Have y'all seen this: “Breast-Washing”: Enfamil Offers Free Breastfeeding Support Kit http://ecochildsplay.com/2009... - Aaman (Clone of FF)

It's a shame that this has become such a fraught issue. I think mothers ought to *try* to breastfeed, but, if they can't, everyone MYOB. - Kamilah Gill

Aaman, I haven't seen that exact article but a lot of formula companies offer free "breastfeeding support kits" which are nothing other than promotional materials for formula and discouragement about breastfeeding. - Rochelle

Yeah, those are creepy. I hope that most women are smart enough to figure out that a company making formula might have an agenda hidden in their "pro-breastfeeding" literature. - Meredith

When I had my baby, I never received any free formula stuff. It may have had something to do with it being a military hospital, though. - Michelle Martinez

I'm a man, so really do NOT have any right to comment. That said, my wife was a rock star trying to do the pumping thing at work and it was a downright challenge to the point of being nearly impossible. Fortunately, she did not have the Raynaud’s, which I've heard is very painful. Through much discussion and heartache, she decided to quit her job. Not all of us have that option or even... more... - Kenley Neufeld

Michelle, different hospitals are definitely different. The one where I had Audrey is very breastfeeding friendly. They don't allow any formula promotional materials or samples there. There are currently 83 hospitals that are certified as breastfeeding friendly, and many more that are moving in that direction: http://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/eng... - Rochelle

There's a HUGE amount of animosity in the pro-breastfeeding community toward those formula samples that women get in the hospital. And I can understand it, to some degree. But I have to say, when we came home and my milk hadn't come in yet and we had to feed J *something* because he was jaundiced, that little can saved our asses from a midnight formula run (because of course we hadn't... more... - Catherine Pellegrino

My kid never did take to breastfeeding - he was premature and they had to start him on the bottle before I got to see him, so he wanted nothing to do with eating "au naturale". I pumped for more than a month, then gave up and went to formula. I know what you mean about getting judged for that decision, it's no fun, but you need to do what is right for you, not for "them". - The name I really want...

Oh, I should get you in touch with Shanon over this. Problems with nursing our first son almost drover her over the brink. With son number two she was like "he gets two weeks to figure out nursing, if he can't do it after that, it's formula." This goes back to my only real advice about parenting babies: try what you think is right for a while. If it isn't working or seems wrong, trust... more... - Steve is older than ever

I do find hospitals giving out samples of stuff from major companies (from formula to diapers) to be a bit sketchy, but while mine did give samples out, they also provided amazing breastfeeding support (the nurses were actually WAY better than the lactation consultants I dealt with after we left the hospital). - Meredith

Isn't it funny how so many women just don't talk about problems with breastfeeding unless someone else brings it up? And then you find that such a large number of your friends/family had issues as well. :) - Meredith

Amen to your post, Meredith. - David Rothman (☤)

Also, I got carried away and forgot to say Hear, hear to your post: it's the judgementalism that's so damaging, not what and how we feed our kids. - Catherine Pellegrino

I wish I could double-like this. Betsy went through so much of this, and it took Eliza losing 15% of her body weight before the doctors finally said to go formula. Good for you for writing this...makes me proud to know you. - Jason Griffey from twhirl

Went with the bottle for our kid, too, and for the same reason. (Thanks so much for link to the Pediatrics article.) The trauma taught us to be flexible in everything we do with our son -- it just wasn't worth the pain and suffering. I also liked being able to bond with my son during my feeding times. - Joe....

Rochelle, I didn't know that. Our hospital wasn't listed, though. - Michelle Martinez

Applauding :) - Abigail

As a nanny, I work around a lot of moms. I've heard so many say that they tried and tried breastfeeding and when it just didn't work, the judgment was unbelievable. I think breastfeeding is fantastic (honestly, I can't wait til I have a baby and can hopefully nurse him/her), but I think the judgment is hurting a lot of moms. - Lis Miller

With all that's wrong with formula, why hasn't wet nursing come back into vogue as a viable job and alternative for mothers who have infections and such? - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, I think now there are milk banks that mothers who have more supply than their child needs can donate their milk to. - Meredith

Matthew, like Meredith said, there are milk banks but they charge a LOT of money for the milk, double or more what formula costs. A lot of families just can't afford that. Some people do find individual donors and make arrangements that way and do it for free (or lower cost than a milk bank, anyway) but the demand is so much higher than the supply available. - Rochelle

A quick Google for milk bank prices came up with one in San Jose that charges $3 an ounce. A baby eats maybe about 5-6+ ounces per feeding, several times day. That really adds up. - Rochelle

I guess I've never seen formula as anything more than an emergency ration though, or if the baby has a milk allergy. - Matthew DeVries

Wow! I knew nothing about the prices at milk banks! At those prices, Reed would cost us $96 - $120 per day if he needed the breast milk! And Matthew, for a huge chunk of the population in the U.S., formula is all their baby eats. - Meredith

And now, 4 generations after it's creation, the population is starting to reflect that fact. I'm reading the Michael Pollan books right now, and it just angrys up the blood, and I'm trained as a scientist..... - Matthew DeVries

I haven't read Michael Pollan's books yet. What impact does he say it's had on the population? - Meredith

Baby formula doesn't play a huge role in "In Defense of Food", but baby formula was really the first and fore-front of the Nutritionism Artificial food movement. In it's earliest forms it was downright toxic to a large percentage of the populations, with failure to thrive and neurological deficits endemic in formula-fed populations. Problem was no one had discovered vitamins yet. The... more... - Matthew DeVries

Oh dear heart, hugs to you. I cannot imagine what it would be like to breastfeed with Raynaud’s. I had enough nipple pain just due to bad latches in the beginning - with Raynaud’s I"m sure there is no way I would have gone on. Breastfeeding was a huge ordeal for me. Sleepy baby, not gaining weight, sore nipples, had to use an SNS, weighed him after every feeding, supplemented with... more... - Laura Norvig

great post .thanks! - JSNFLMNG

I have Raynauds and this is the first I've heard of this! May have explained the crying on my part for the first two weeks before I gave up and went to formula. Everyone kept saying it would get better and that if I was a good mother I'd stick with it... Two years later my daughter is thriving and I think we are both much better off than we had been for those first two horrible weeks. - Samantha Hines

I'm sure you were both a lot better off, Samantha. The most important thing for a child is to be well-fed and have loving and non-basket-case parents. You're no good to your child if you're miserable all the time. Oh, and my midwife had never heard of Raynauds of the nipple too, which is probably why it is so often misdiagnosed as thrush. - Meredith

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