MSE Pregnancy Club 19

ladylegs

dustystar02 wrote: »

I tell you what you ladies can help me with. I'm looking for a pine storage box to put in the nursery for bedding, then toys etc.

Focus and Homebase do basic pine storage boxes for roughly £20 - just need staining and/or painting. And there are some really nice nursery stickers out there to give it some character.

dustystar02

ooh thanks Legs - I hadn't thought of stickers. I was thinking of getting a basic one and painting as we want shelves too so could get them all done together. I might get that one you have suggested Nic. I'm currently in the midst of a nightmare with Homebase, ordered a soda from them on 22nd August and it still hasn't arrived. Do not recommend. will look in B+Q - thanks for the tip..x

MERFE

Fuzz I don't have back problems but struggled with DD in a baby bath, she was so heavy to have to hold with one arm the whole time, the support really was fantastic because although you are still leaning over the bath its without the weight of the baby and it makes such a difference. Suitable from newborn sammy.

krystal unless you are like me and you know you'll be there 3 days, maybe I should take something just incase, not sure but will deffo discuss with midwife on tuesday.

ladylegs

MERFE wrote: »

Fuzz I don't have back problems but struggled with DD in a baby bath, she was so heavy to have to hold with one arm the whole time, the support really was fantastic because although you are still leaning over the bath its without the weight of the baby and it makes such a difference.

I watched a video on youtube to get ideas on baby bathing and the midwife on it said to put a hand towel in the bottom of the babybath - to stop baby slipping and also it is nicer against their skin. I thought that was quite a simple and effective idea...

I've got a baby bath (£3 ikea cheapie) and plan to use it at table/sink level in the bathroom - filling it up with the shower attachment so no bending over and hurting back - when my confidence and baby grows, I'll take nippa into the big bath with mummy - these breasts will be like humungous flotatation aids

Krystaltips

I still wouldn't take any Merfe... For the first 3 days your milk won't be in anyway you'll be making colostrum which is very highly concentrated so the baby only needs small amounts (about a teaspoon at a time) every time you feed the baby it sends signals to your body to get ready to make the milk... Giving a newborn formula has a couple of different effects, 1 it is higher in volume which stretches the baby's tummy, this causes the baby to appear to need more than you're making which leads to offering more formula... Every time you don't offer your breast to the baby that's one less signal for your body to make milk, which leads to your milk taking longer to come in... Which makes you reach for more formula... If you can avoid offering formula, make the most of the 24hr midwife support available to you and just keep offering the breast, you're much more likely to have a succesful breastfeeding relationship

hngrymummy

Did mean to say. thanks everyone for the ermm....unblocking advice. All good today :j Alas it meant me hoping desperately that DH wouldn't be too long in the shower this morning. eeep.

gratefulforhelp_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

With regards to taking formula into hospital... If you plan to breastfeed then I wouldn't take any in with you... If you need help with breastfeeding then it would be better to get support from the staff while you are there than resorting to formula... Plus you're only really there a short time and it's quite possible the baby wouldn't even want a feed in that time... A lot of babies don't want to feed for the first 24hrs...

So if they try to bully you into giving babe formula, like they did me with DD1, kick off big style, ditto if they don't give you proper support. 99.9% of people can breastfeed if they choose to. One old battleaxe told me "I would never breastfeed with nipples that small" !!!!!!?!

hngrymummy wrote: »

I've put on weight too, a whole stone :j No wonder I'm feeling so tired if I'm lugging all that extra weight around.

Hmmnn so if I loase weight I'll be less tired? May be the motivation I need!!

Catw0man

**confuzzled** wrote: »

bath supports.....tesco do a foam support thingy for £5, says around £8 on website but instore was deffo £5

My local Tesco also have a moulded plastic one, which sits the baby up a bit more, and I think it's £4 or £5. This is what I was going to get but now thinking of a baby bath as our bathroom gets really cold, and being due in December I'm not happy about having bubs in there - if that makes sense, so thinking about getting a bath for in the living room/nursery where it will be warmer. I remember still playing with my baby bath in the summers when I was about 5:rotfl:

gratefulforhelp_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

I still wouldn't take any Merfe... For the first 3 days your milk won't be in anyway you'll be making colostrum which is very highly concentrated so the baby only needs small amounts (about a teaspoon at a time) every time you feed the baby it sends signals to your body to get ready to make the milk... Giving a newborn formula has a couple of different effects, 1 it is higher in volume which stretches the baby's tummy, this causes the baby to appear to need more than you're making which leads to offering more formula... Every time you don't offer your breast to the baby that's one less signal for your body to make milk, which leads to your milk taking longer to come in... Which makes you reach for more formula... If you can avoid offering formula, make the most of the 24hr midwife support available to you and just keep offering the breast, you're much more likely to have a succesful breastfeeding relationship

And this lady understands breastfeeding better than many midwives.:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

MERFE

krystal I had it all planned out with top ups based on how I did with DS but now it seems I don't have gestational diabetes this time so hopefully I won't need to give top ups at all and it'll all be like you said. DS blood sugars did drop after the birth so he did need the tops ups and it is quite possible that is what delayed my milk coming in, although I'm not sure it ever did come in, at least not like it did with dd.