Just a quick note to say yay! to BellyBelly! I only discovered this site a few days ago, and this particular forum today, and I've now been on here for hours reading all the posts (it's way past my bedtime). I was refered onto it by a mum in my mum's group. And it is such a beautiful place!!
It's just so good to see an Aussie site that is based in gentle parenting. I never really knew that gentle parenting was what I was doing until a few weeks into this motherhood thing- I thought I was just parenting by instinct!! It just didn't seem right to let my baby cry, or to let him be hungry or feel alone after carrying him around for so many months so close to my heart.
Reading all these posts has been a breath of fresh air amongst all the comments from surely well meaning in laws and bystanders who tell me I'm making a rod for my own back, to just let him cry because otherwise he'll expect me to be there all the time (isn't that what being a mum's about??), to only feed him every 4 hours and if he's hungry in between then bad luck, and of course "My baby was sleeping through the night at six weeks!!".
Thanks girls. Big hugs for you all