Babies Born ~ September 2007 #63

[Junglemum]

Spot on Ginger. I cant believe people would discourage bf'ing like that. Lack of knowledge clearly. Don't let them influence you Isa.

I too took the girls to weddings, parties, anything when they were young if it was acceptable.

[AnyDream]

Isa, how long are you planning to leave E for? Expressing usually works better when you're leaving them for a few hours not a few days at a time (IMO) but you might be able to organise it with enough planning, etc. The ABA have some good booklets/fact sheets which is probably a good place to start. I expressed better by hand than I did with a pump (except with the hospital's whizz-bang electric one) but TBH breastfeeding was always such a priority to me I tended to organise my life around it. In hindsight (and I can say this now) it is such a short time in your life. Could the family organise to have a nice dinner for your sis before the party at the pub (might suit some of the other family members better too, kwim)?

[Cassius2]

Isa: oh man i suck at expressing. all i have learnt is to not express too much at a time. i could only do a max of 60mls at a time or i risked engorging. I second the others and vote that you just take her i take marta out with me when we have girls nights out. we went to the pub the other night . that said i do limit my alcohol to just one, but man i cherish it lol!

[Trillian]

I'm going to have to put myself on a ban again - I have 3 assignments all due the same week and two of them are bat**** boring LOL and it is making it very hard to get into the groove of writing them, and when I'm struggling I find I wander over here and that's not getting me anywhere so I'm going to be AWOL for a week to get them done and then I will be back. Love you all xoxoxo

[Ginger]

oh no! bye trill, best of luck with your assignments. head down, bum up!

[Artechim]

Good luck Trill. Might have to do the same - have an assignment due in a couple of weeks that is the.driest.topic.ever. Seriously makes me fall asleep when I try to read it!

On that note, got a B+ for my summer school (70-75%), which isn't too bad since I neglected it terribly.

[Isadora]

Hahaha good luck Trill!! See ya soon.

Girls I have been thinking about it more, I am just going to bring E with me in a sling. Expressing is too hard. I would rather just take her and feed her, its much easier.

MD - I know what you mean, because it is a priority to me at the moment too.

Ginger - I love that line of the baby controlling your life, not bf!! I will be using it thanks hehe.

Cass - I had the most delicious glass of red wine last weekend. Up until then I have been refusing all alcohol, but then I thought well I was having one here and there while pregnant, surely one while bfeeding wont hurt? And it didnt hehe. Mind you it was half a glass and filled with a tonne of ice!

Thanks girls, great helpful advice as usual!

[Artechim]

Isa, that is what I would do. In 3 years of BF I have never ever expressed. I don't think I can, because I squeeze and nothing comes out. Perhaps I have a bad technique, but I did hand milk my cows for a few summers so I should be good at it!

[Ginger]

thta's great isa. i have never expressed either, i just used to take them everywhere with me and explain that they were breastfed babies so we could not be seperated. simple as that. do you have a good sling to use?

[AnyDream]

Trill, I've totally missed the boat, but study hard!!!

Isa, kwym about how delicious that red vino is when you haven't had it since forever!

Arte, I'm sitting here PMSL about your driest.topic.ever because that's pretty much become my paid job . Oh yes I was encouraged at the beginning to think outside the box and come up with somethign that has half a chance of actually engaging the clients, but it turns out (now that my entire supervisory chain has been replaced by a fresh batch of people) that NO they just want the boring old way AND to boot now require somethign I've been working on for 4 months (and had previously been approved for publication by all except the very top most level) to be conceptually rewritten in THREE working days . I had a very *not happy Jan* day at work last week (including a spot of crying in the toilets) made all the worse by my supervisor being so horribly NICE about it all. I'm hideously embarrassed by the entire FIASCO and trying to not let it affect my confidence in what I do and how well I'm doing it.

Coming slightly unhinged but trying desperately to be gracious, cool, and efficiently professional in the middle of it. Funny thing is my FDC lady is sick today so it will look like I'm having a protest sickkie when I'm not.

[Cassius2]

oh MD

[AnyDream]

Thanks for the hug Cass, I think it has upset me because a) I was **** hot good in my previous job and here I'm a parttime nobody who now has a 4 month fiasco attached to my name (even though a month ago all indications said fiasco was going to be a shining achievement, before change of supervisors) and b) because writing that blog last year has opened the floodgates and I'm now going through that awkward phase of trying to work out whether my output is objectively good or whether I'm just painfully misguided in ever thinking I could be a writer (for real, instead of in my imagination).

[Ginger]

fwiw i think you're an awesome writer. i would buy your book.

[Artechim]

MD,

[AnyDream]

fwiw i think you're an awesome writer. i would buy your book.

Ginger I'm pretty sure you would buy my book anyway because you luff me

Thanks for hugs Arte, how are you getting on, now, chicckie?

[Junglemum]

Md- you definitely have a way with the written word. Don't doubt your ability, you have a talent there.

[Cassius2]

MD you have the passion and gift of writing...i reckon we can fully attest to that seeing as our friendship with you is primarily based on the written word

[Artechim]

MD, I would certainly like to read your book. I have googled you before because I know you have a previous book lurking but I only find one on PNG?
Things are alright here. Sick of feeling sick but hoping that it is going to fade away soon.
I hope you are going alright with your mega...minds??

I have done something to my pelvis. Around the back. I was lying in A's bed while she went to sleep and when I got up I could barely walk. Doesn't hurt if I am sitting, but I can't put any weight on my left leg. No pain as such but feels like it might just collapse out from under me! Hoping it is better by tomorrow!