MSE Parents Club Part 9

hammyhunter

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Oh my! Whereabouts is it you live? The tractor made me laugh too. At least you have the stove to keep you snug - it could be quite romantic camping out in front of the fire!

We live in the middle of no where on the Herefordshire/Gloucestershire border :cool:

The tractor has been and the boiler is in the middle of being repaired (hopefully!) .

Karen, I am 90% breast feeding now at 7 weeks but when LO was born he wouldn't latch on. Because I can only feed with 1 breast he started off being fed only 10% expressed breast milk and the rest formula. I use tommee tippee closer to nature bottles and there has never been any problems for him with the so called nipple confusion. hope this helps x

tiamai_d

Yeah, I agree with Feely about bottle preference. I stuck to TT number 1's when she was still BF. She got nothing out the breast flow bottle, I think it was a duff. Oh and also, if you do use a bottle remember and let them latch onto the bottle, don't put it in their mouth.

3onitsway

Feelie Nothing was aimed at you hunny, you give brilliant advice. Along with Krystal you are the MSE BF Experts! I know i've been incredibly lucky to have 3 babies who didn't care where their food was coming from, and I was able to feed 2 of the 3 successfully!

(It was aimed at the bl00dy HV's, who in my experience know b00ger all!)


I'm really going now. xx

feelinggood_2

hammyhunter wrote: »

Karen, I am 90% breast feeding now at 7 weeks but when LO was born he wouldn't latch on. Because I can only feed with 1 breast he started off being fed only 10% expressed breast milk and the rest formula. I use tommee tippee closer to nature bottles and there has never been any problems for him with the so called nipple confusion. hope this helps x

Just wanted to say wow! I'd be interested to know more about your story, if you ever fancy going into more detail!

Fitzio

3 - forgot to say earlier, have a great night out. I bet it was quite satisfying handing in your pass! I wish it were me.

weezl74

karen1907 wrote: »

can someone give me a flapjack recipe?

these are very frugal, tasty and chewy rather than rock hard which is how DH and I like them. We also add cinnamon.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Feelie - it was me that started talking about 'so-called-nipple-confusion' being a stick used by health professionals to scare them away from bottles the other day. Nothing was aimed at anyone. I just think for most babies it is a nonsense.


I thought I was being contraversial at the time, but then everyone agreed with me LOL!!





Just in case anybody doesn't know me very well, the comment about going to the pub before I picked the baby up was a joke...


...I always take the baby to the pub with me

got-it-spend-it

Gorgeous pic Tigs. Andrew is so cute and I love his cardi! He looks like he has great head control too.

hammyhunter

feelinggood wrote: »

Just wanted to say wow! I'd be interested to know more about your story, if you ever fancy going into more detail!

Hi, Feelie,no problem - what do you want to know? The not so very short story is that I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago and after a couple of ops, chemotherapy & radiotherapy was told that children were not going to be possible. They were wrong! When I found out I was pregnant I decided I really wanted to breast feed - both for his benefit and for the health benefits for me too but I knew that the treated breast wouldn't be able to produce milk but I worked on the theory that you can breastfeed twins so I wold be able to breastfeed 1 baby with 1 breast. I didn't factor in the possibility of LO not latching on when born though.... he was initially cup fed but it was way too consuming so I switched to bottles but kept persevering with trying breast and expressing too. He is now almost completely breast fed and I am really proud of myself for getting this far

elle_gee

Karen, this is the recipe my friend followed. I'd put something on FB a while ago about wanting/needing flapjack, and she turned up on my doorstep with it a few hours later - despite the fact she knew nothing about *why* I needed it (she's a bit anti-kids at the minute so doesn't know anything about BFing ). Bless her! Have been meaning to make more ever since.. it was so yummy I ate it all in a day!

Ingredients:
- 1 whole pack of real butter
- 1 whole small tin of golden syrup (or half of large tin)
- 8 ounces of caster sugar
- 8 ounces of conrflakes (crushed - put in a bag and crush with a rolling pin)
- 10 ounces of rolled oates
- 4 ounces of plain flour

Method:
- Melt butter and sugar together (use a big & deep saucepan) till it goes a nice yellowy smooth consistency - then add the golden syrup to this
- Combine the remaining dry ingredients together.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mix (in about 4 stages but dont let it get too dry) - if still too wet add more oates. you want it to be able to hold together.
- put in oven 150 C for 20 mins.