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SusanCarter

Becles wrote: »

The health visitor came this morning to weigh Charlotte and for a chat on weaning. Charlotte is putting weight on at a steady rate and she's happy with her progress.

When the boys were little, you used to get a box load of weaning freebies from Bounty. Do you still get that? If so, when and where do you get it from?

I just found the sample packs of food really handy, as you could see what they liked and disliked before buying the full sized packets of food.

I haven't got as far as the bounty pack yet but we did receive free samples from the Hipp and Cow & Gate baby clubs this week. I think your due date was a month later than mine so if you're a member of them I imagine you'll get stuff in a months time.

cha97michelle

The bounty pack - i got a voucher when Charlie was about 4-5 months. then it took me about an extra 6 weeks to find a pack as they didn't have any in any of the local boots or ASDA, and to be honest, it really was not worth it. There was one small jar of fruit puree, one sachet of organic baby rice, a petit filous money off voucher and spoon, and that was about it apart from all the rubbishy leaflets that come in it.

I was told that the £5 George voucher was inside the bag whether you got it from either shop, which i can believe as it was in an envelope inside the bag, but i didn't personally take a chance on this, and i had to use it up really quickly because it had such a short date on it.

Becles

I got a Cow and Gate envelope this morning with a sachet of breakfast cereal in

Sorry to hear the Bounty weaning pack isn't as good now. When I had the boys, it was a cardboard box with loads of sachets and jars in, as well as nappies, wipes and other bits and pieces.

jenpoptab

Hi guys

Little man struggling with wind today, he's had off few days. Very unsettled which I think is down to warmer weather.

Hope that you are all ok.

Eels100

Hello, can I please join in?

DS is now 10 days old and we're sort of getting used to life with a baby and all the ups and downs that brings. Breastfeeding so far is wonderful, after some tough days and nights we now have functional boobies so that's a bonus. And my baby is such a pleasure - very little grizzling and reasonable sleeping at night, which is fab. Already he spends longer periods awake and alert, checking out his surroundings, although I wish he'd learn to love his bouncy chair more.

Things I'm finding hard are whether I should love him more than I do (not that I don't, it's just I'm not walking on air much of the time IYKWIM), how on earth I will cope with 6 months of being a milk-bar and nothing else, and what on earth to do about my horrendously overhanging belly which cannot be disguised by anything other than OH's HUGE and extremely unflattering t-shirts. At 26 I do feel a little like my body should be less like a wreck than it is right now - but having had a section I'm in no position to do any wild exercising .

Anyways, enough moaning, I'm so lucky to have such a gorgeous bundle. We're having to do some serious economising to keep up mortgage payments (don't even talk to me about what we're going to do next year when the fixed rate ends :eek:) so roll on parenting the MSE way!

SusanCarter

Eels100 wrote: »

Things I'm finding hard are whether I should love him more than I do (not that I don't, it's just I'm not walking on air much of the time IYKWIM), how on earth I will cope with 6 months of being a milk-bar and nothing else, and what on earth to do about my horrendously overhanging belly which cannot be disguised by anything other than OH's HUGE and extremely unflattering t-shirts. At 26 I do feel a little like my body should be less like a wreck than it is right now - but having had a section I'm in no position to do any wild exercising .

Although I fully intended from the start to breastfeed as long as possible, it wasn't until a month that I felt like I could carry on till 4 months let alone 6. Once I got to 2 months I felt like 6 months was possible and now we're up to 3 months it feels like a way of life that I could just carry on indefinitely. Incidentally, I read an article yesterday which said that 1 in 5 people give up in the first week and 1 in 3 have given up by six weeks. Also, once he's awake more, you'll have time to do other things with him and you won't feel like "just" a milk bar.

Eels100

Thanks Susan - I really, really love BF - it's lovely time and I'm so proud of him for taking to it so well. It's the change from being a busy working person to having to spend hours sitting watching mind-numbing nonsense on TV that's tough for me. I don't usually mind watching rubbish, but I think the fact that I have to resign myself to spending time 'doing nothing' is difficult. I hope it will become much more like a 'way of life' - I bet by the time I have to go back to work in the new year I'll be dreading it!

SusanCarter

I found once I got a bit better at it I had one free hand which is useful as you can read books. (Far better than daytime TV - I remember it being mind numbing when I was ill with hyperemesis.)

Becles

Eels100 wrote: »

Thanks Susan - I really, really love BF - it's lovely time and I'm so proud of him for taking to it so well. It's the change from being a busy working person to having to spend hours sitting watching mind-numbing nonsense on TV that's tough for me. I don't usually mind watching rubbish, but I think the fact that I have to resign myself to spending time 'doing nothing' is difficult. I hope it will become much more like a 'way of life' - I bet by the time I have to go back to work in the new year I'll be dreading it!

You sound just like me! Make the most of sitting watching rubbish TV for now though - you need your rest to let your body heal, especially if you have had a section. BF is perfect in that respect as it forces you to rest frequently at first instead of rushing round all day.

Once you start feeling better and both you and baby are more confident, you can do all sorts while feeding. You can hold baby with one hand, and use the other hand to read books or the newspaper, browse the internet, play a board game with other children and so on.

I've even done extreme breastfeeding a couple of weeks back. Charlotte woke up while I was in the middle of a complicated uni assignment doing a set of accounts for a fictional company, so I just latched her on and got on with my spreadsheets

jenpoptab

Hi

Re: breastfeeding. I think everytime I have struggled one way or another, 1st time didn't know what I was doing, 2nd time couldn't get baby to latch, this time boobs took ages to get milk in. DD1 fed until 9 mths, DD2 until 11mths and so far DS is 4 wks tomorrow and still going strong, actually feeding as I type.

Re: getting rid of belly. I'm not far off my WW goal weight (8lb to goal) that I was when I got pregnant, however I can't stop eating at moment, worried I will be putting on weight rather than losing it. Can join WW again after post natal check but have lots of things planned first- curry, excessive amounts of chocolate, cakes etc. Ha ha. Bear in mind I weighed less whilst pregnant with DS than before I was pregnant with DD's. Trying to make most of excuses whilst I can.