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Yorkie

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  1. Hi all, I'm returning to work full time in 6 weeks and need to start weaning my 7 month old off b/f and onto formula for her day milk. I'd like to carry on morning and evening feeds. I'm a bit confused about which feed to start with and when, is it better to do lunch first or morning? I don't want to muck up my supply. Am also finding it a bit emotional, have absolutely loved breastfeeding. How have other people found the transisition? Also, do you think continuing the evening feed will prolong night waking? Feeding her now as have had three hideous nights of trying not to feed at this wake-up call so if I'm about to change how she's fed in the day am wondering if should bite bullet and tackle this at same time. Or is that just asking for trouble... Thanks.
  2. l'occitane shea butter cream is expensive but brilliant. Really works on chapped hands.
  3. Me too! Molly, if I have no.2 I'll be round for a test drive!
  4. I went to Nunhead Cemetery Open Day when 6 months pregnant and spent most of the time watching prams/pushchairs go past. It really helped to see all the different makes in action. A friend did similar but in Toys R Us. As a heavy public transport user I really should have paid more attention on the bus though, have got the M&P Pliko Pramette which I do like but is much more cumbersome than I was expecting. Now coveting Mountain buggy, after moving on from Bugaboo envy and boring my pregnant sister about her pram choice!
  5. We used Addison Lee. Arrived really quickly, lovely driver who went slow over the speed bumps and dropped us off right at the steps of the Golden Jubilee wing. Highly recommended. Parking at King's is a nightmare and once you reach the labour ward you may find the last thing you want to be worrying about is when to go and move the car.
  6. I didn't leave the house for 3 weeks and then it was only because I had to go to baby clinic. Am sure the Health Visitor made me go to get baby weighed as she knew I'd not been out. I felt such a sense of achievement that I'd made it across the park! A week or so later I called my sister excitedly "I'm out on my own" I told her. "Where's baby?" she said. I realized then that on my "own" meant me and baby... I have a big soft spot for Colleen and thought it was great that she had her son in her local NHS hospital.
  7. I had 3rd degree tears (fortunately not infected) and found lavender essential oil in my bath alternated with salt/savlon baths really soothed them. Sorry to hear you've had such a rough time, early motherhood is really hard (I have an 8 week old and am only now coming out of shock and I had a straightforward delivery!). A friend told me the mantra of motherhood is "this too will pass" and I've found it really helpful to repeat to myself. You sound like you're doing great, enjoy your beautiful boy.
  8. Thanks ladies, it does help to know you're not alone. Particularly as no-one around me has experienced this and just advises me to wind her better or assumes all babies are sick like this. Winding seems to have no direct impact on the vomit, sometimes she's sick as she burps, sometimes never burps and is fine. I'm waiting for an appointment at the child oesteopathy clinic in October and we did prop her up using a small pillow under the mattress last night which I think might have helped. Will try gaviscon tonight and see how we go.
  9. Our 6 week old daughter has been throwing up a lot of her feeds for the last few weeks. At clinic today they prescribed infant gaviscon and advised me to keep her upright after the feeds. I've been doing this with limited success. I think I'm making matters worse by how I feed, she's a baby who only feeds for 5-10 mins at a time and after each feed I try to wind her on my knee for 10 mins then move to shoulder for next 10 then change her & put her back on same breast if she's still hungry. Starting the cycle again. She can be sick at any point, sometimes before I've even sat her up and sometimes 1hr later as I put her down! Last night I was up from 3am to 7.30 before she finally went down and stayed asleep (she also does the waking up screaming thing but is very happy and content at all other times). I'm not worried about her as her weight gain is brilliant but am finding it such a worry trying to work out if I could be doing something to ease her pain and perhaps more crucially my sanity. I'm a first time mum and finding it all a bit overwhelming. I wondered if anyone had any top tips for getting through it?
  10. Am posting more in sympathy than anything else really... Am writing this with my one month old daughter asleep on my chest having just got her to sleep after she fed every 40-60 minutes from 7pm to 1.30am She also screamed the minute I put her into her Moses basket so in the hope that she might actually stay asleep when I transfer her this time I'm trying to keep her asleep on me for as long as possible. She's previously had feeding frenzies like this but never screamed like this before. I'm a first time mum and whilst I knew sleep deprivation and trying to get your baby to sleep were part of the job description I hadn't quite appreciated how much or for how long! Here's hoping it passes/someone else has more practical advice for you.
  11. Hi everyone, Just wanted to say thanks for your advice and good wishes last week. It really didn't take that long for things to get rolling and the labour was really good. We had a horrible scare when Group Strep B was belatedly discovered on Wednesday, especially as I'd delivered before they could get the full course of anti-biotics into me, but baby R was cleared on Friday morning. We're now home from hospital, safe and well. Getting used to being parents of a newborn, blimey!
  12. Thanks for replying Belle, I spent the afternoon writing my birth plan and phoning a friend with a long list of things to buy in Mothercare. Even though they tell you not to leave everything to the last minute of course we have! Feeling a bit calmer now, have had some twinges in last hour or so, here's hoping nature will take over. Off to have a lie-down - might be my last one for a long time...
  13. My waters broke this morning, went to the MAU at Kings and all is well so am back home monitoring temp and hoping to go into labour naturally. Apparently 1 in 10 women experience this and labour should start within 24 hrs. I'd really rather not be induced but if nothing's happened by Thursday I'll have to be. I don't know whether to sit back and wait or try all those things they recommend to get labour moving (except sex, I know that's off) and just wondered if it had happened to anyone else out there? I know they induce when you're late but didn't realise they did it when waters broke before everything else started.
  14. You're lucky you don't live/work in Peckham. Try finding a sandwich (any sandwich) at lunchtime there. Or any other time actually.
  15. Anyone know what's happening in the grounds of Bredinghurst school in Nunhead? The live band there have been blasting through all the old punk favourites. I just heard 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight'.
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