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Those should work fine. As long a the receiver has a monoplug on the end it will fire the lights. And the last one you can slave off the first two. (Or fire one and slave two). The quality on these can be cheap so you'll probably get some misfires though.

There are a lot of products to use beauty dishes with speedlites but on the whole they are too directional to get the full use and effect out I one. Speedlites are designed to concentrate light in an area because they are low powered but to use a beauty dish you generally want something more...

Or the Manfrotto 098b or 098shb (shorter version)

If you got the elinchrom d-lite kit you have the eco transmitter which can be tough to squeeze into the hot shoe of the camera. Most of the time the trigger just isn't all the way in and the contact isn't lining up.

It depends how you are metering. Holding it by the subject is an incident meter reading as opposed to spot metering where your meter takes a reading through a scope pointed at the area. Most of the time it is better to use incident because it takes into consideration more factors and you can...

Is it a pop up box or a regular one with rods?

Do you like washing dishes or eating on paper plates?

Flashes sometimes freak parents out more than really newborn babies. You could look into lights that have compact fluorescents into them like the impact octacool lights. They are really soft and easy to work with. However once they are old enough to move around you will definitely want to move...

You know it isn't the camera or the cord because you mentioned the other light works fine. Interfit isn't really the best of quality, but decent for the money and I have heard of people having this issue. Usually there is a way to factory reset on monolights which can help or sometimes the...