MSE Parents Club Part 11

My_Fathers_Daughter

Fitzio wrote: »

Som - Have you tried cherry dummies rather than the orthodontic ones? I think a lot of people find that baby prefers the shape. Holly will take a cherry dummy if she is at a sleepy stage and it helps her nod off, but there is no way she would take one if she was crying. My friend's baby takes one if he is crying (which he does a lot) though which is strange to me! I don't know how she gets him to keep it in his mouth!

We are cherry dummies here too! Only the pirate ones, no others will do! Although he didn't take one at all (unless you held it in for him LOL) until 12 weeks.

Now when Benjamin is crying I take his dummy out of his mouth and pop it back in which prompts him to suck on it...and hence stop crying!

That is another battle we need to tackle - stopping him having a dummy when he isn't tired. He mostly only has them for sleeping but he seems to hide them all over the place so he disappears under the dining table (or wherever) and comes back with one in his mouth!!


This morning he sat in his cot with his dalmation shouting 'woof, woof, woof' how cute!!

Somnium

EA - yeay for acne clearing, am sure T's is gettin worse it's looks so horrid when she gets upset but after Reading up on it now know this is normal.

Gym - boo at the lack of RL support, I've been surprised with the support I got from both sides of our families as I'm the first to bf for ages and thought they'd persaud me to swap to formula when I was having a rough time.

WM - do you find Alex has a fave sleeping bag?

Fitzio - might bee worth trying thanks only tried orthodontic so far, tho she was really upset yesterday when I was trying to give her the dummy so could have been that.

Well havin a good morning as T has been asleep on her gym on and off so managed to shower and do my hair then legs and dress and she still hasn't fussed

aless02

LOL, we're the opposite! Finn loves his orthodontic one (I should buy more because we only have one and every time we lose it, there are many tears to be had until it's found!) and spits the cherry ones out in 2 seconds!

Evansangel

I have 6 dummys for L now as we keep losing them. We have 1 in pram, 2 in bedroom and 3 in the living room just incase
And they are all exactly the same ones so she cant reject them

workinmummy

Somnium wrote: »

WM - do you find Alex has a fave sleeping bag?

Fitzio - might bee worth trying thanks only tried orthodontic so far, tho she was really upset yesterday when I was trying to give her the dummy so could have been that.

No Som. Any one will do. Thank god he's not fussy about those. But only MAM dummies will do! And with Joe it was the cherry ones only.

got-it-spend-it

Hello all :hello:

Happy Birthday Katie :j and Good Luck SM :j

Gymfiend- I can't imagine how hard it must be not to have any real-life support. have you found a booby club near you? That might be a good place for some RL support. What does your OH think about it? Maybe if you explain to him how important it is to you, then he can field some of the negative comments from family members. Please remember we are all here for you.


Speaking of supportive OHs, has anyone found that their OH has got less supportive of BFing as baby grows up? Mine was awesome at first, but now H is a bit older he doesn't like me feeding in public and is just generally much less helpful when I am feeding. When I told his the HV said I should be proud of myself, he was really sarcastic. He now says he was joking, but I don't think he was....

aless02

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Speaking of supportive OHs, has anyone found that their OH has got less supportive of BFing as baby grows up? Mine was awesome at first, but now H is a bit older he doesn't like me feeding in public and is just generally much less helpful when I am feeding. When I told his the HV said I should be proud of myself, he was really sarcastic. He now says he was joking, but I don't think he was....

Mine's REALLY annoying about BFing in public...he swears that he doesn't mind but that he's afraid some numpty will complain and then he'll have to get in a fight with them. Rubbish, obviously. It usually comes up when we're someplace that's not a coffee shop (coffee shops he's okay with just nowhere else!).

3onitsway

My OH was funny about me feeding in public but he wouldn't have dared say, because if he had, he knows i'd have whipped both boobs out and slapped him about the head with them!! But I could tell from his face.
But he was supportive of the actual breastfeeding - maybe I was supposed to stay at home for the first 8/9 months. :rotfl:

He came home from work one day, (we both worked in the same place), and someone had asked how the sleepless night were. He'd said he doesn't notice them because I was feeding V myself. He said she was really shocked that i was STILL feeding. V must have only been about 6 weeks old!

pigpen

I have NEVER apart from when I fed DD1 in church during her baptism.. discretely in the pew.. not at the font obviously .. had nayone say anything negative to me about it.. but then I possibly sit there giving death stares and 'come and have a go if yo want to lose your limbs' vibes lol...

Though OH's mum said I am not permitted to bf the baby in church when his sister gets married in Sepember.. I said fine I will let it scream then.. she said no if it cries you take it out.. I said if it cries I feed it.. I am so hoping it needs feeding during the service... heehee....

fattybooboo

gymfiend wrote: »

Thanks so much for all the advice on the mastitis, just about stopped me from wapping them off with a meat cleaver :rotfl: Thanks for the link to the group Elle, have bookmarked it and will work out how to join I am exclusively pumping, though I still try to get him to latch sometimes but less often than I was as he really isn't interested I'll persevere for as long as I pump though and pray that one day it just clicks for us.

Hi Gym. If its any help I was in a similar situation a few months ago when Toby and I got thrush (I didnt even realise u could get it on your breasts!!) It was v painful when he latched on and the treatment took a couple of goes before it cleared it up. I remember thinking that I couldnt carry on much longer like it, but likewise there was no way I wanted to stop BF!! Looking back, although it was HIDEOUS at the time, it was a relatively short period of time and Im so glad I didnt give up. Having said all that, obviously do what you feel in ur gut is the best thing for you and your baby and you cant go far wrong!! In RL my DH side of the family havent ever BF so tend to be quite questioning about it (some would say negative ) and never mention the positives. Luckily for me my mum BF and my mum and dad are v supportive and also 2 close friends with babies the same age BF and that helps alot. But even so, the negative opinions still get me down even now. Kinda makes me more determined in a way. I spose I should rattle off the positive benefits to said people but part of me thinks I know that its best and I cant be bothered trying to convert people that are not even going to listen. Sorry rant over!! Anyway I really hope u get back to normal soon and then you will be so proud of yourself that you got through it. xx