MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

Peanut2013

MrsB that's great about the support. We had so much help from our local team but unfortunately just didn't work for us.

Question for today...

Mum has just offered to take LO on their daily dog walk so will be gone for 2 hours. Do I do housework or run a nice big bubble bath?

What do you think? Lol x

Gillyx

Sleeeep or bath. Not housework!

BadlyWrittenPoem

morocha wrote: »

you all been busy.
I have decided to switch to formula, Jade is 5 weeks old, how much do your babies drink ? what formula do you use and how do u get organized for the feeding at night ?
I gave J a bottle last night cos i tried not to bf, thenn in the middle of the nights my boobs were so full they were killing me, she empty both and cried and cried cos she wanted more, oh made her a bottle and she was really happy, played a bit and now is sleeping.
I do not think i can carry on bf, my body is giving up and j is so hungry, can not be sitting in my coach feeding every hour any longer, being a mum is hard enough yet still feel guilt over not bf....:(

Breastfeeding for five weeks is more than most people do and all breastfeeding is beneficial regardless of when you stop so I think you have done well.

mrs_B_5

Definitely sleep or bath Peanut

Thankyou for the reassurance Turtle It's nice to hear from someone who's little one has had their tie snipped. I think we were put off by the worry of a GA but noone had actually sat down & explained so I didn't realise how much simpler itd be to have it done early on & noone had actually sat & watched to check it wasn't impacting on his feeding like it is doing. Oh well, at least were on our way to having it sorted now!

BadlyWrittenPoem

fluffnutter wrote: »

Freddie wakes so many times in the night and consequently I'm only ever half awake that I've had to devise a way of knowing which booby I last fed him on.

Basically I put him in the cot alternate ways, i.e. sometimes his feet are towards the window, sometimes his head is.

This has worked brilliantly so far.... but now he's mobile. He could be any old way in the cot now. Swapped ends, on his tum, perpendicular to the normal way with one leg stuck through the bars, l-shaped with his feet halfway up the side. Anything goes and I've no idea which boob to hoick out any more...

Sometimes I leave the clip of my bra undone on the side I want to feed from next to remind me. (Although sometimes I don't notice and feed from the opposite side to the one intended!)

BadlyWrittenPoem

Peanut2013 wrote: »

MrsB that's great about the support. We had so much help from our local team but unfortunately just didn't work for us.

Question for today...

Mum has just offered to take LO on their daily dog walk so will be gone for 2 hours. Do I do housework or run a nice big bubble bath?

What do you think? Lol x

Bath! .....

janninew

Hi Ladies,

Hope all are well?

Just had Poppy at the Doctors, she is very badly constipated and has given herself a pile! Poor babe!

Had a very embarrassing incident on Saturday in Nando's at lunchtime (cringing thinking about it!) Poppy decided to pull my top down to attempt to get to my boob! I only breastfeed her at night now but she obviously fancied some for lunch as well, the old couple opposite had a right eyeful!!

Hoping we all get something wonderful for Mothers Day - we deserve it!

xx

janninew

Peanut2013 wrote: »

MrsB that's great about the support. We had so much help from our local team but unfortunately just didn't work for us.

Question for today...

Mum has just offered to take LO on their daily dog walk so will be gone for 2 hours. Do I do housework or run a nice big bubble bath?

What do you think? Lol x

Have a sleep in the bath! Two birds with one stone!! :rotfl:

Peanut2013

Guess I better have the bubble bath then

Elelyn

mrs_B, Theo also had his tongue-tie snipped. I'll be honest and say he did scream and I broke down wondering what I'd done to him (there was blood too), but he only cried for less than a minute and then he fed and went to sleep and was right as rain. I think it was worse for me than him! I don't regret having it done, even though we ended up bottle feeding anyway.

It appears that the little monkey is celebrating his half-birthday by having an extra long nap - 2hrs 20mins and still going! We haven't had a nap this long in ages, it's usually more like half an hour these days. I was going to try a new baby group this afternoon as well but we've missed it now.