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SusanC_2

Glad to hear things are improving Bailey and so glad your husband has been able to have that time off work.

Becles

india wrote: »

She drinks her juice out of a cup with a straw attached. Can I put her milk in one of those or can anyone recommend a beaker that babies love?

Ex-microbiologists head on now! I really hate milk in straws, especially those spirally bendy type straws. There's too many internal surfaces that cannot be easily cleaned, and traces of milk can turn into very nasty bacteria in a very short time. The nice warm kitchen where the straw is likely to be stored is perfect breeding conditions.

Can you replace the straw with a disposable one? That would be better for milk. If not, our cheapo Tommy Tippee first cup came with a spout lid and a flat lid with a hole in that you can put a disposable straw though.

Also make sure you give inside the spouts and round the holes a good clean in hot soapy water when you are giving milk in cups with spouts.

Keep an eye on the spouts and ends of washable straws too. When they get chewed and get teeth dents in them, throw them away and buy new. Bacteria can live in the dents and cause illness.

Glad to hear things are looking more positive bailey.

Mazcabs

Just a quick reminder for any of you that use Pampers Baby Dry nappies that they are on offer until end of tomorrow at Tescos for £3.98 for the carry packs. Think thats when the Johnsons baby wipes BOGOF also finishes...

DS driving me mad today, supposed to be working from home and everytime I get connected he starts playing up so by the time he's sorted I'm logged out!! Why is it he is well behaved / naps ok at his Nana's and nursery but not when I want him too..typical man I guess.

And he's started waking up again in the night....mind you isnt that a sign of weaning? HV keeps saying just another couple of weeks everytime I go..he's five months now so cant be that long to go.

cathie_3

hello
I was wondering if any of you have relied on breast feeding as your only contraception?
My little girl is 7 weeks old now and I am pretty confident I will keep up breastfeeding fully for the first 6 months at least, I have read that it is 98% effective when breast feeding fully.
Any opinions?

suzukibabe

We had another appointment today with Adam's consultant. He weighs 8lbs 12oz and has been put on Infatrini, a milk on prescription that has 1 1/2 times the calories than the milk he's on, so hopefully he will start to beef up a bit now The poor little thing had more bloods taken, 4 tubes of blood and eneded up with a luminous pink plaster on his little hand. We also had to bring a specimen pot home with us to collect a urine sample-what fun that was Their running some more tests on his blood to double check they've not missed anything as his weight gain has been slower than they'd have liked, other than that he's absolutley fine, we're back at the hospital in 4 weeks.

Does anybody else's child/children sleep walk?
DS1 has done since being little, i've found him behind his bedroom door many a time or trying to get inside his wardrobe, he did it just now, he came home from school and fell asleep on the sofa, 'woke up', was looking right at me but wouldn't answer me and wandered off into the kitchen, fell over and started crying. DH used to sleep walk too although he's not done it lately.

SusanC_2

cathie wrote: »

hello
I was wondering if any of you have relied on breast feeding as your only contraception?
My little girl is 7 weeks old now and I am pretty confident I will keep up breastfeeding fully for the first 6 months at least, I have read that it is 98% effective when breast feeding fully.
Any opinions?

Personally I didn't want to risk being the one in fifty who gets pregnant so used other means too but then no method is 100% reliable anyway.

daphne_descends

cathie wrote: »

hello
I was wondering if any of you have relied on breast feeding as your only contraception?
My little girl is 7 weeks old now and I am pretty confident I will keep up breastfeeding fully for the first 6 months at least, I have read that it is 98% effective when breast feeding fully.
Any opinions?

Hi Cathie

Like Susan I wouldn't want to risk it - there are lots of siblings 10/11/12 months apart in age because of this!

Claire_Jones_3

I was ok with just relying on breastfeeding until Charlie reached about 5 months as we started weaning him and Istopped feeding him as much. We weren't worried if I fell pregnant again that quickly so I would say it depends on your attitude towards another baby in such a short timescale!

On Raspberries: Charlie has got very good at them! He was christened yesterday and blew some of the loudest and longest raspberries you have known at the quietest moments, like when the Rev said about repenting the devil and praying etc!! I could have died of embrassment but Rev thought it was funny and cute.

Lu_T

Charlie sounds v cute!

On contraception - as Claire said, depends on whether or not you're bothered about getting pregnant again. The advice from health professionals is not to rely on it at all.

Re weaning - hang on until you think LO is ready. I weaned Imogen at 17 weeks (she was starving!) and HV didn't bat an eyelid. She said it wasn't what they would have recommended, but that I had to do what was best for baby. (She's a fab HV, we all ask for her specially when booking app'ts!)

Dormouse

cathie wrote: »

hello
I was wondering if any of you have relied on breast feeding as your only contraception?
My little girl is 7 weeks old now and I am pretty confident I will keep up breastfeeding fully for the first 6 months at least, I have read that it is 98% effective when breast feeding fully.
Any opinions?

Personally I wouldn't/didn't rely fully on it, but as Susan rightly said, no method of contraception is 100% reliable. :rolleyes:

If you haven't read this yet, I found this very educational and useful:
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/normal/fertility.html

Interestingly, it does state that

Exclusive breastfeeding (by itself) is 98-99.5% effective in preventing pregnancy as long as all of the following conditions are met:

1. <LI class=emphasis>Your baby is less than six months old <LI class=emphasis>Your menstrual periods have not yet returned
2. Baby is breastfeeding on cue (both day & night), and gets nothing but breastmilk or only token amounts of other foods.

Interesting info about the gradual return to full fertility as well.
Good luck whatever you decide