thanks ladies for the advice re EBM quantities. I went out for an hour or so today by myself and DH gave him EBM. There was only about 40ml there and he drank all of it. I came home soon after and he was squawking for another feed. So I will definitely express more. I seem to do a lot of feeds during the day, more than every 3 hours between feeds, so maybe I am always topping up rather than letting him get really hungry. I find most times the only way I can settle him is to bring out the boob. I find his frantic crying distressing and the boob settles him, hence the very frequent feeds.
Re more kids. DH and I have always said we wanted 1. But when we had only 1 dog we got another one within 6 months to keep the other company LOL. Given it took 2.5 years to fall pregnant, and my age (34 in Feb) I don't have a lot of time to play with if we wanted another. Not sure about how I feel about another just yet.
Kim - I totally feel the same way about being sad about not being pg anymore. Even though I had a few issues, it was nice to be one of those special people that everyone treated as important and special. Kind of like when you are engaged and getting married. I said this to one of my friends and she reminded me that I have now become part of the special mummy's club - responsible for the care and development of another life, and that is very special and important. We are all going through a stage of adjustment, some of us have more adjustment to do than others.
Goody re baby bonus. Called up about it yesterday, so would be good to get it within a week or two. Nothing in mind to spend it on, but great that it arrives so quickly.
Thanks Cath for the details EBM. So, as he is currently around 3.1kg, he should be having a total of app 470ml of BM/day. As most of the feeds are from the breast (and you can't tell how much he is taking from that), it would be safe to portion the EBM to around 60 - 80ml if he has 8 feeds/day. In the end better to express more and throw out what is left over than underfeed.
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