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Dormouse

chocaholic110 wrote: »

This time I intend to hold on until 6 months despite being repeatedly told by family that he's probably had enough breastmilk now / there are more nutrients in formula / needs something "proper" to fill him up / is looking at our food (he's not!) / I'm embrrassing people by feeding in public etc etc (delete as appropriate!!) :mad:

God, that sort of comment annoys me so much :mad: (well, all of them, but especially the nutrients bit! :mad:). Well done for sticking to your guns :T

I'm not a particularly brave feeder in public, although I do do it if I have to, stuff everyone else. :rotfl: With DS1, I was too shy to feed in front of the in-laws, but this time round I don't care. Just love watching FIL squirm (not in a bad way, just an embrarrassed middle-aged man sort of way :rotfl: ). I also try to be as discreet as I can .

Having said that, Alex is 8 months old and is dropping his daytime feeds now, and judging by his lack of interest in milk, I don't think we'll be feeding during the day for much longer. My baby is all grown up

Dormouse

Snaggles wrote: »

She will settle down though pink princess, it wont always take up to an hour and a half. Natasha takes a maximum of 20 minutes now, and that's only really in the morning. Her other feeds are usually 10 minutes.

Oh yes, Snaggles is right, definitely! I'm lucky if our feeds last anywhere near 5 mins these days :rotfl: (well, apart from the bedtime feed which is nearer 15-20 mins but I like that, gives me a chance to have a lie down after a hectic day :T)

3KIDSNOMONEY

hi, i too used to be a shy breastfeeder - but fourth time round i feed anytime anywhere, in fact it makes me really cross that when i think about how my mother in law made me feed upstairs alone with my first - i was obviously too easy to push around then. I just think now that if they don't like it then stuff them.

tsstss7

hello all

shy breastfeeder here too! I will feed in front of oh and female members of mine and his family but not keen on bfeeding in front of any other males. I am very big there though so find it very hard to be as discreet as my mum friends. I have fed in public in only one place - I found out recently that most (all?) mothercares have a lounge type feeding room so popped into our local one the last time I went to town. Was ok but LO got distracted by all the other babies and didn't really settle to a proper feed - we were out of there in under 10 mins. :0) Still at least I know there is somewhere we can go as dispite my resolve I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to feed in public - too old to change my ways now I guess.

chocoholic I get all those comments too - makes me very annoyed !!!

Becles

Breastfeeding in public never bothered me. Fed mine all over the place discreetly - even at the table during a wedding reception!

I've got a very naughty baby! My children stayed over at my parents as we went out last night. My Mam was in the cupboard under the stairs looking for something, so Charlotte shut the door, then sat leaning against the door and laughing, so my Mam couldn't get back out. She just had to wait until Charlotte got bored sitting there and moved off :rotfl:

SusanC_2

Becles - that made me laugh. I haven't fed in public very much. Earlier on it was hard to be discreet as Alice would stop up to four times in a 45 minute feed to go to the toilet but now it's a bit easier as it's a 10-20 minute feed with the only stop being to switch sides. I have fed in the car quite a lot which doesn't quite feel like "public" to me but only started doing that when we went on holiday 5 hours drive away so I had to. Other than that, I once fed Alice in an empty cfae and also in the Metro Centre recently and no one gave a secong glance.

chocaholic110

I've fed everywhere. In fact you're probably the only people in Co. Durham who haven't seen my boobs as I'm sure everyone else has!

tsstss7

Have fed in car too ...doesn't feel like in public to me and definately more comfortable than most public places. I think one of the reasons I don't is because as LO is quite big and I have carpel tunnel in my hand holding him in position isn't easy so I reallly do need my feeding pillow and comfy chair.

(on a more moneysaving note - I do not recommend anyone buy a feeding pillow from mothercare - their once plush pillows are now vacuum packed and decidedly weedy - I had to buy extra padding!)

purplepatch

Well, thanks to my children, I've had a very NON moneysaving couple of days. Went swimming yesterday and Olivia is such a wuss that when we went round the rapids section of the pool she clung round my neck so tight that she managed to break the chain of my necklace and I lost the pendant that DH bought me for my birthday last year. I phoned the insurance people but the excess payable is £100 and that was the value of the necklace in the first place :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

To cap it all, she told me this morning that she could make me another necklace using something else from my jewellery box. She then got the box out despite my feeble protests (it was 6.50am!) and started rummaging while I was dozing. Next thing I hear is No Izzy No!!! and I look round to find Olivia tugging on a string of pearls that Izzy is holding.... very tightly... and you can guess what happened next. Snap!!! My parents bought them for my 18th birthday many moons ago and I remember at the time thinking that they were expensive*sigh*. I don't ever wear them, but that's not the point :mad:

Sometimes I really feel like I've had enough of these pesky kids

SusanC_2

tsstss7 wrote: »

Have fed in car too ...doesn't feel like in public to me and definately more comfortable than most public places. I think one of the reasons I don't is because as LO is quite big and I have carpel tunnel in my hand holding him in position isn't easy so I reallly do need my feeding pillow and comfy chair.

(on a more moneysaving note - I do not recommend anyone buy a feeding pillow from mothercare - their once plush pillows are now vacuum packed and decidedly weedy - I had to buy extra padding!)

We used three tesco value pillows. I used pillows for about six months because up till then if I fed her sitting on my knee rather than lying on the pillows she would feed too fast and end up choking on the milk and spitting it out all over me.