MSE Parents Club Part 15

gill_81uk

Is the rocker worth getting Sami? T is 7 months now and sitting up so I'm thinking bouncing chair days are numbered!

aless02

Ooo, thanks Krystal.

(lol for a minute I thought you were linking b/c of stuff about the wedding )

Krystaltips

Who cares about that?

ClareEmily

Ok this is really just a moan....

My baby is now two months old and I am breast feeding on demand, he is growing well and is happy and contented. I also feed very discretely.

I have so far had the following:

Best friend - "He is awake during the day because he is hungry and if I was you I would change to bottles and give him a dummy".

Step Mum - "Give him a bottle at night to make him sleep through".

Several strangers - My goodness you are STILL breast feeding.

Friends send me upstairs to feed as they don't want me to get my "baps" out in front of them. Happy for me to change smelly nappy in front of them though?

Step Dad - Gets all embarrassed when I feed and my mum was a bit weird to begin with to.

I haven't even attempted to feed in public, I honestly cant say if breast feeding women bothered me before I had my son, I really don't think so.

Anyone else found this?

Becles

aless02 wrote: »

Becles, when do you not have a busy day?

I haven't got any work booked in for Sunday and I'm looking forward to a day off so I can get on with the cleaning and stuff.

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

I figured the idea of the coil creeps me out less than the implant. And I'm rubbish at taking the pill, so I need something permanent. I don't trust myself otherwise!

Abstinence?

Hello Real Butter. I love your name

Been snowing here this evening and we've got a covering now. Jack has been out attacking it :rotfl: More snow forecast for the next few days.

Josh's friend is coming for tea after school on Friday and he lives way out in the sticks. I'm wondering if I should tell him to bring his pyjama's in case we can't get him back home on Friday night

Kellyg

ClareEmily, nothing really constructive to say apart from really OMG what a funny old lot. Im 11 weeks and if all goes to plan I will be doing as you are. Two months is still so very little.

As long as you and your little man is happy i say carry on with what you are doing, you know your baby best x

jackieglasgow

I had my first son eleven years ago, and had the same problems, I had really hoped new mothers now would be finding it a bit easier. I remember my MIL and FIL coming to our house to visit the day we got out of hospital, and I was asked to go into my bedroom and feed the baby as FIL wasn't comfortable with it :rotfl: Its not as if it was all on show, and I was a bit mortified to be asked to be honest, but being young, I did as I was asked. If he was still here today and the situation were to arise again, he'd be told where to go :rotfl: My mother was the worst, oh your husband won't be able to bond with the baby if he can't feed it, every time my son caught a sniffle, "That's your breastfeeding for you" can't win with some people, but while women are still finding they have to hide it, it will always be treated by some as if its some ritual performed by space aliens!

Well done for managing this long, and keep going as long as YOU are comfortable doing so!

Jewel_2

I had the same with bottle - felt guilty that I wasn't breastfeeding. Everyone kept telling me that I should. Do what you want to do, ignore everyone else.

ClareEmily

Thanks Kellyg ignoring them all, the last straw this week was going over friend's for lunch, baby cried right at wrong time for milk, I was sent upstairs and they accidentally threw my lunch out (like they forgot I was there), I had to feed him 3 times while I was there, so in room listening to them laugh and joke downstairs arghh

Also feel like I have to apologise for feeding him in my own house??

pinkshoes

My little one is only 11 days old, so I've done all breast feeding upstairs so far, as I'm not overly confident with it (and he's a nightmare to feed!!).

He's been excessively sleepy due to jaundice, so I've had to top him up with formula to stop him getting dehydrated, as he fell asleep within minutes of latching on. I've had my parents comment that I should be making more effort with the breast feeding (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - I do need to sleep and can't feed him every 30 minutes!), but on the other hand, I got a dirty look from a couple when I was bottle feeding him in a cafe, despite the fact that the bottle contained expressed breast milk!!

Have you tried getting a nursing cover? They have a plastic loop thing at the top so you can see what's going on and others can't!

What annoyed me most was that I had to stay in hospital due to him not latching on and feeding, yet if I'd just shoved a bottle of formula in his mouth, they'd have let me go home!