Hoping to join back in here again, I had my little girl 9 days ago & so far things are going well.
She feeds 3-4hrly overnight & 2-4hrly during the day. She is such a easy baby compared to my other 2.
Well welcome back to the thread ~Cheshire~ and congrats on your new little girl
em- Congrats on the BFP!
Im pretty darn proud to announce, that yesterday we made the 2 year BFing mark....2 entire years can not believe it and it would have been MUCH harder with out all the advice, tidbits, cheer ons and pick me ups of the Belly Belly girls
AFM, my bubba is still breastfeeding, even though I dont have much after stopping motilium. I think its also just comfort for her. But we are down to only three feeds during the day, breakfast, arvo nap time, bed time and then I get in a dreamfeed. She has been sleeping much better at night, touch wood, hoping she can keep it up as much as possible. Also AF has just returned, I knew it was bound to happen once she dropped feeds a couple of months back. Anyway I made almost 18 months with no AF which was wonderful!!!
We are still here, 2 and a half years eek! When does breastmilk change into colostrum again for the new baby? Curious about how DD will react to that haha.
Just a little vent really... bubs and I have thrush. I have had really painful attachment for the last couple of days and a throbbing in one of my boobs. It was painful but I didn't think it was that bad (I've had worse thrush infections) but poor bub, she has thrush all through her mouth, a horrible, horrible fungal nappy rash. She's teething and has a cold. She is so miserable. She doesn't want to drink from my thrush boob really at all. This journey has been such a hard slog for us, it's just been one thing after the other. Some days its just too much.
Amelia is 21 months and we are still going. At times she is very demanding, during the night she comes into bed and says, "doodor mummy peeeeaaaaase!!" doodor is her word for boobie. I pretend to be asleep lol, can't handle the night time feeds with the all day sickness atm. So really she has a feed in the morning, one to go down for her daytime nap and sometimes one before bed at night.
Mumof2boys - It really has been a long road for you. The thrush sounds nasty, and just another thing you dont need atm on top of a cold. I hope you can get rid of it fast, I'm sure you know all the tricks with having had it before. Take care of yourself too.
Hi girls, I'm not on BB much these days, but just wanted to share my BIG WOOHOOOO!!!!
I've been EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFEEDING my 2nd little girl for just over 4months now!!!!! this is a huge thing for us as with my DD1, although she was always breastfed, we also used formula and EBM top ups for the first 4mths of her life due to various feeding problems in the beginning and low milk supply, low weight gains etc.......
So I'm SUPER STOKED to be able to say we exclusively have breastfed................
And DD1 has one or two feeds a day so we're tandem feeding.... never would have thought!! hehe
So I need to have a bit of a...vent? Im so sick of justifying my decision to breastfeed. I'm tired of know it alls... One in particular lately... 'your milk is sh*t, have you had it tested to make sure it has everything he needs?' or the other one I keep getting is 'he should be having bottle too, you can't breast feed only, it's not enough, every baby is being bottle (formula) and breast fed by this age'
My DS is ten months and he is as healthy and happy as can be!! I'm so sick of some people and their opinions!! Thanks for listening...
The pressure to bottle feed is enormous. Women are harassed and badgered almost from the minute they give birth to formula feed. You are doing great. You might have to tell these people that you just can't and won't discuss it with them any more
Thanks girls, I just think its bizarre that they assume mothers that breastfeed judge them for choosing to bottle feed yet in my experience I have only ever been judged by bottle feeding mums. I think everyone should just do whatever works for them and their bub and mind their own business. I just had to let off some steam. DS and I worked hard to get breastfeeding underway and are both still happy so why change?! He's definately not being starved!!
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can not believe it and it would have been MUCH harder with out all the advice, tidbits, cheer ons and pick me ups of the Belly Belly girls
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