I love that Melissa is breastfeeding. I would like to weigh in on one issue that I heard Melissa say on a TV interview. She said she “couldn’t drink caffeine because she was breastfeeding”. My doc says a cup of coffee in the morning or a soda in the afternoon is perfectly ok! I just wouldn’t want a woman to choose not to breastfeed because they heard something like that.

Mom2boys: Actually you can just potty train a child when it’s convenient if you are persistent enough about it. In the 80’s and early 90’s children were routinely potty trained between the ages of 1 1/2 and 2 years old, and despite the dire warnings some pediatricians give about how potty training that early will cause harm to the child, the kids who were potty trained that earlier are perfectly fine. It does not harm a child to be potty trained early, it just requires that the parents be patient, persistant, and accepting of the fact that even though a child doesn’t grasp a concept within the first few minutes does not mean it’s time to give up. Many parents claim their child isn’t ready when really they’re just not ready to do the amount of work it takes, so they wait until their kids can practically do the work themselves. So there’s really no reason why Melissa couldn’t have potty trained her child before the new baby was born – not that I’m saying she should have, because that is completely her choice, but it would have been possible if she had wanted that.

Robin,
Either you aren’t a mother or your children are potty superstars. Any mother of a typical toddler knows that you can’t just potty train when YOU find it convenient to. There are many different variables to potty training.

Anyways, beautiful family.

DLR-

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR POST!! That guy needs to breast feed a baby before he says you don’t need 500 extra calories!! You may not NEED them but the question is will you WANT them…and the answer is “YES PLEASE”.
The hungriest I’ve ever been is when I’m breastfeeding, WAY more than when I’m pregnant – there’s a reason! There’s a baby living off of you! I eat ravenously when I’m breastfeeding…Don’t know about others people..

Rofl at ‘Hoover’! Did that ever paint the picture!

Hey Juliana, oh I totally agree with you. The headlines blaring “she had a baby two weeks ago and she’s ready to GET THAT WEIGHT OFF” are bizarre. And the amount of Photoshopping women’s bodies (and faces even) in magazines now, it’s complete fraud! Raising children is the most challenging work there is, and we don’t need any extra pressure.

Re: “world renound Dr. Jack Newman (breastfeeding guru!)”

The day Dr. Newman is awake at 3:00am with a Hoover clamped to one of his uber-sensitive and cracked nipples for 40-minutes is the day I’ll take a man’s advice on breastfeeding.

I’m not surprised she wants four kids in total. Melissa herself comes from a big family, though some of them are still kids themselves.

She’s a good mom, though I was surprised to read she only has just started potty training Mason now. I would have thought Melissa would have started long before Brady was born so she only had one baby in diapers.

Sasha-
I certainly agree with maintaining a healthy lifestyle and I sometimes can even go overboard in that endeavor. It’s just sometimes I just get tired of how there are so many articles and concern about what a women is going to do to get her “old” body back after pregnancy. The concern and obsession with that just doesn’t promote healthy body issues even if the woman is planning to do it in a healthy way

she seems like a nice down to earth lady. Both her boys are adorable. I always pictured her with 3-4 kids, so I hope one day she gets to have a girl. I picture her with all boys though, like victoria beckham and pam anderson.