MSE Parents Club Part 7

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elle im going through the whole chocolate slab thread ... there soooo pretty x

feelinggood_2

I know one lady who can't wait, she hates breastfeeding and wishes LO would take a bottle. Makes me want to cry

emlou2009

elle i dont BF but i can only speak of the weight that was lifted off my shoulders when i decided enough was enough and gave it up, but i felt like a different woman within the 2-3 days it took for my milk to dry up

My_Fathers_Daughter

elle_gee wrote: »

Speaking of BF being hard... nebby question coming up.. Are any BFers in way looking forward to BF coming to an end?

I felt like I wanted to finish, or I couldn't wait to finish, when I was expressing every day. I haven't expressed since the night I said I had had enough on here and that has made life much easier.

It does mean that we are down to 3 feeds left in the freezer which will go tomorrow night and Benjamin had more formula now but TBH, when he eats tikka masala sauce and tonight he had cajun chicken sauce then I guess formula is nothing!!!



Anyway - I digress, now I don't express I feel like I could go on BF for as long as Benjamin wants. He isn't very demanding anymore so it has all calmed down loads.

elle_gee

Maybe it's just the "getting my body back" (to myself, I mean) thing..

My mum told me she BF me at night up to 9mths (I stopped during the day once weaning started), by which point she was pregnant with my sister who she then fed for six months... and then had had enough by then (I assume my sis had too!).

nancmat

Thanks all, great advise I really want to stick with it and she loves it and only lost 3oz in her first couple of days which midwife was pleased about..

No birth story yet I'm still traumatised ha ha.. started with contractions at 1am and gave birth the folliwung day at 3am, took all the drugs they offered, after initally being dead set on a water birth I was gutted x

Buttonmoons

I went into town and bought a dress to wear out, It's kinda similar to a bandage dress in that it holds you all in and I thought it looked really nice on me and was pleased I'd found something nice to wear out.

Until I showed OH, he told me it just makes me look fat and I better not wear it out.

I've spent the last 4hours locked away in the bedroom, and he thinks he was being helpful....now he says Im twisting what he said, you can't twist fat!

Tigsteroonie

elle_gee wrote: »

Awesome news Tigs!

Remember me says they know when they're ready cos they get stroppy with the machines? I'd been meaning to ask what his EDD was..

Will the oxygen come home with you just in case?

No mention of it yet - I did see the Matron this morning, who talked last week about home oxygen, and she said that he's in so low an amount that they'd expect him to wean off before he goes. Which he then pretty much did today! Let's hope the night nurse keeps up the good work and doesn't just opt for the easy life.

Hi Nanc, I'm a "sort of new" mum too - Andrew's been in Special Care for the last 10 weeks, and hopefully we'll get to bring him home in the next week or two! In a way I'm looking forward to those sleepless nights, as I've been waiting for them. But I'll probably feel differently after the first one! I've been expressing for the last 9 weeks, and we've just started having success at BF today really.

ladybirdintheuk

I'm kind of looking forward to her being ready to stop, but I'm not going to push it on her iyswim. The week when she wouldn't feed broke my heart and I'm glad I stuck to my guns, with all these people saying that she was ready to stop - I knew it was a nursing strike, and she wasn't ready, as she stopped suddenly rather than gradually, and was ill! But I think I'll be ok when she is properly ready to stop. I hope .

It'll be nice to be able to just go out in the evening without worrying about it (well, without worrying about not being there to BF anyway ).

emlou2009

SM on barefoot contessa on the good food channel she made a chocolate slab today, she melted a load of chocolate and spread it out on a baking tray and chucked a load of fruit and nuts over it, it looked so yum! and really easy too. i'm making her chocolate truffles for xmas presents for people this year