Hey everyone!
I only just found out how good it is to read other mums stories/ experiences! I am the first in our little family to bf on demand and keep it up! My sister bf for a few weeks but as it took her daughter an hour to feed and then wanted to feed again after an hour and a half, she just gave up.
Luckily I have plenty of milk and ds only needs 15 min to feed.
It's nice to see that it is apparently normal for babies to feed 2-3 hourly when they are b/f.
My problem at this point is, that i have to return to work on the 28th of April and MIL will be babysitting and I think she wants him to be on some sort of schedule, she's not really into the gentle parenting. She just wants to parade her grantson around and get attention from him rather then looking at his needs.
And I have to leave him with her for 2,5 days per week. Unfortunately to a short cash supply I will have to work 4 days a week. I am looking for a different job to try and bypass this problem, so i can be home more often.
How are you doing with dh? I was hoping/ expecting he would be spending more time with us, now that his son is actually born but it seems that everything is important BUT his new family!
Makes me feel very alone really specialy as we live in his hometown and I have no friends here.
I was really hoping to start a family but so far it has more been just the 2 of us (bubs and me)
Sorry about all this negativity, I am working on turning this around into all positive, as I do believe in the power of the mind.
Thanks everyone for their stories, it is a great help meeting with ppl who think the same!
O yeah, the birth was quick and easy but rather painfull. I had false labour tho, once exactly 1 week before he was born and the night before he was born. Both lasted for 12 hours...! When he was born I called the midwife at 8.30 telling her I had the irregular contractions again. She came at about 10.30, noticed I was 2 cm dilated and did a stretch and sweep.
At 1 pm I demanded her to come back and check me out as I couldn't stand the pain anymore (felt like my pubic bone was being torn in two and my back was killing me), she arrived at 1.30. at that point I was 6 cm. I went to the toilet and was soooo comfortable there that i stayed there for an hour (it took the pressure of my back) and after that it only took 15 minutes of pushing and there was our beautiful boy weighing 3490 grams and 51 cm tall, head 33 cm.
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