MSE Parents Club Part 14

3onitsway

Buttonmoons wrote: »

3 I read out your comment and he said "Tut, cats dont feel pain" :rotfl::rotfl:I give up!

So why do they squeal when your toddler swings it round by the tail or pokes it in the eye?

Buttonmoons

3onitsway wrote: »

So why do they squeal when your toddler swings it round by the tail or pokes it in the eye?

To vocalise their displeasure at having to use up their natural anthesthestic

BeenieCat

Just gave the dog a haircut and a bath. That's a strenuous effort and a half. *passes out*

And little miss doesnt-like-bed finally went to sleep in the travel cot downstairs, i can hear her blowing raspberries now... Am ignoring her.

kitkat5566

elle_gee wrote: »

Unconventional, perhaps, but not unnatural!

I did have the help of domperidone, can't deny that I got to 6.5mths of exclusive expressing, then started the odd bottle of formula, then slowly more formula and EBM only on Rhys' weetabix by 12mths

I used a Medela Symphony in hospital (first eight weeks), then a Medela Swing (bought new in Boots for £90) for a few months, then started renting a Medela Symphony (£65 for the first two weeks, then £40 a month) once I knew I was in it for the longhaul (would have loved to have moved to 'direct' feeding but, for various reasons, it wasn't to be for us).

I think Tia recommended the Medela Mini Electric Plus. It doesn't have the two phase thingy the Swing has, but it's a double so will halve your pumping time and increase the signals needed for supply. I think they're about £65 to buy brand new.

ETA: This is the link for an (American, mostly) expressing mums group I used to subscribe to too. They were good for tips, plus the KellyMom site if you've not seen it already

Thanks for your help I cant see how expressing is unnatural!!

Is domperidone prescribed?? I am currently doing all feeds myself most days then theres an odd day like yesterday where I had to use one feed of formula. I am hoping to continue feeding combined for 3-6 months.

Thanks for the recommendations re: pumps, I was looking at Medela actually. I will keep an eye out for the Swing and Mini, I did look into renting but we just cannot afford that atm (OH been made redundant and me currently on leave).

I am hoping my hospital will let me borrow this pump for a bit longer but apparently I have to go there Tuesday to try to BF properly :mad: this is annoying me... why cant they leave me alone!!!

searching_me

everyone here is asleep im not even close to bed ......... quite annoyed actually the amount of times i go to bed and go without philip the one bloody night im up thinking hey im not at work tomorrow and he goes to bed early as hes tired ................... i really hate his sleeping pattern its messed up x

Buttonmoons

BeenieCat wrote: »

Just gave the dog a haircut and a bath. That's a strenuous effort and a half. *passes out*

And little miss doesnt-like-bed finally went to sleep in the travel cot downstairs, i can hear her blowing raspberries now... Am ignoring her.

I can hear keira jabbering on in bed, she will be crying when I force her out of bed tomorrow before 10am for the vets.

Her tongue never stops, she even talks in her sleep she loves it that much.

did the dog soak ya? Archie comes in the bath with me, only cat I know that likes water, he sits on my belly and licks my armpits

gill_81uk

Kitkat - unless you're getting the double medela mini I would say definitely go for the medela swing. The mini is super noisy so is fine for occasional but not if you're doing it a lot. I got my swing for £42 on ebay.

elle_gee

Yup, Domperidone is prescribed. You can buy it OTC (*ahem* Motilium *ahem* ) but it's about £3.70 for ten tablets and the starting dose is nine tablets a day so it's silly expensive, and you also can't buy more than a few boxes without questions being asked by the chemist! Domperidone's actual use is an anti-nausea drug, but if taken in excess (hence nine tablets a day instead of the usual three) one of the side effects is increased breastmilk production (info from kellymom site ).

It's a bit hit and miss if GPs will prescribe it too. I went to a GP at our practise and almost fell on the floor in desperation (bad, bad time with Rhys being poorly etc etc) and he gave me it straight away (once he'd read the print out I gave him from kellymom!), but then a few months later he refused to give me anymore, saying "nine months of breastfeeding is enough". I got another appointment with another (much nicer!) GP a few days later who told me the other one was being stupid and how were we ever going to increase the BFing rates in our area with attitudes like that and put it on indefinite repeat prescription for me

First off, I'd give Fenugreek a go if you're in need of a boost. It's about £8 for 100 tablets from Holland and Barrett That and eating oats - flapjack and porridge etc

3onitsway

Kitkat that's rubbish about the hospital! You'd think that if bf is so important, they'd be a little bit supportive! :mad: Hang on in there - you'll get lots of support from Elle and others who've managed long term expressing.


I'm off to bed too now - OH is in work til 6. No doubt he'll wake V when he quietly comes up to bed so that'll be our getting up time.

And i've just realised that playscheme and gymnastics start back up tomorrow, and I need to be collecting J and dropping off L in two different towns at the same time! Hmmmm, how am I going to work that one? :cool:

elle_gee

gill_81uk wrote: »

Kitkat - unless you're getting the double medela mini I would say definitely go for the medela swing. The mini is super noisy so is fine for occasional but not if you're doing it a lot. I got my swing for £42 on ebay.

The Swing is super noisy compared to the Symphony