Breastfeeding Support - 6 months and beyond!

[Seraphim]

Glad you're on the mend Cleckner

 

[Kaybee]

Hi everyone - hope you all had a lovely christmas

We had a lovely day. Kaiden had a fab time running around after his older cousin too. The way he was charging around the place I thought he'd be worn out and sleep through the night for the first time Nope! He seems to have the sniffles so was up LOADS during the night. I'm knackered now but need to find some energy to do some more packing!! We move house on the 28th Unfortunately the place we are moving into is not going to be ready then so we are moving into my mum and her OHs place for 7-10 days.

 

[JellyBeann]

Merry Christmas all!! We had an amazing day, Ollie had more toys than he can use!! My DH is crazy and did the boxing day swim!!

 

[Dragonfly]

my dads telling me off for posting boots i like on fb as he says it tmi!

 

[JellyBeann]

my dads telling me off for posting boots i like on fb as he says it tmi!

does he think you mean kinky boots?

 

[lynnikins]

merry christmas girls, we had a good day i managed to express some milk for donation both yesterday and today so thats good

 

[Dragonfly]

my dads telling me off for posting boots i like on fb as he says it tmi!

does he think you mean kinky boots?

apparently i should not be showing everything i want on facebook. all my friends post up pics of clothes its a girl thing.this is why i hate having fam there someone always complains!!

 

[Seraphim]

Question for you ladies...

Do you think BFing could have negatively impacted on the relationship between LO and grandparents?

- Even if that's just grandparents being ignorant or taking the hump.

My mum has uncharacteristically gone off the deep end today, in a big way, and I'm just trying to make sense of it. I think it's more to do with H having had colic, but she keeps making strange comments about me not letting her 'soothe' H.

 

[celine]

I actually forgot to mention but on christmas day was my 18 month bfing milestone

 

[lynnikins]

congrats on the milestone celine

Seraphim , yes it could have an impact esp since H is over a year old, i know it wouldnt with my parents but would defo caus [problems with OHs mum if EJ was upset and i took him to nurse to calm him down caus she bf for the longest 2 wks with any of her children so doesnt understand it and id get stick for creating a child thats too dependant on me, so im really glad she doesnt live in this country and shes never actually met either of the boys caus she refuses to save up to come visit

 

[Dragonfly]

Yeah at the start when WIlliam was born granparents on both ends complained they couldnt take him away because he would want fed. Suited me as I didnt want him away he is a human baby not a toy.

Now Alex is here and he has been seen for 5 mins and the reason behind that I was told is became he is always fed so they dont want to come down and see him as they will see that. Thats the inlaws end, my parents dont care they will come in and I will fed but my mum thinks i should hide away. She suggested going shopping with them and that if my son wanted a feed the toilet is always there. Now a few days ago she said something that pissed me off again,. If I want to go to granddads for xmas I am sure he will let me go to the bedroom to feed Alex. I said why should I hide away? Se laughed as If i was mad! I had to hide away and thinking otherwise was lunacy, She thinks i am an inconvenience to everyone anyway.

Thats pissed me off the way the both sides to on. Its not fully excepted no matter how much they say they do I have to either hide away of them not come near me for fear of seeing a boob!

 

[JellyBeann]

I'd get annoyed, I'd tell them if they want to see Alex, (or William, or you) then they'll have to put up with him being fed!! If they can't deal with it, it's their problem, not yours

(if you were desperate to go though, could you offer to put a blanket over him feeding? not a chance with Ollie, if anything hides his arms or face, he pulls it off and shouts at me lol)

My MIL annoyed me christmas eve, about co-sleeping, but that's a tale for the other forums, and she said "oh, you'll be stopping bf soon with him being a year, won't you?'' yesterday, I just nodded and agreed, couldn't be bothered with the agro!!

 

[Dragonfly]

I would use a blanket as I have big boobs and stretch marked tum so wouldnt want anyone seeing either whatever way I am feeding. Only the blanket is awkward, william would have it off and poor Alex would be baked. My mum asks me discreetly am I still feeding william like its some sort of taboo subject. She never breastfed she had no time for that I was offloaded to my gran at birth. Which was a good thing at the time.

On another note i am getting fed up with some in this forum and am hiding in this thread for I am either ignored in another or someone is being nasty to me.

 

[lynnikins]

i think my MIL is scared of asking if im still BF lol had to explain to FIL the other day that i needed EJ to feed him while he was on webcam i dont think FIL cares enough to care if that makes sense lol, i feed my children where and when i like and if others have issues with that then they are free to leave lol, there are a few exceptions and i make those exceptions caus the people invovled havent asked or been rude about me BF Elliott but have been uncomfortable with the mention of it so i will feed in my bedroom then bring him downstairs when they are around as they are too nice to say anything but i dont want to make them feel uncomfortable if that makes sense

 

[Eve]

People seriously need to mature. I really feel for you DF... I wish I were closer, I would go visit and whip out my boobs in front of them all, hell I would probably shoot some milk at them and watch them all run hehe

 

[Dragonfly]

Haha the imaginary in my head of us squirting milk out over people and laughing evily has made me laugh. I have squirted and drowned Alex a few times to. Looks like I sprung a leak.

Anyway waiting for OH to come home, everytime i have plans to clean and want him to look after kids he fecks off! i am sick of it. Seems he has more important things to do all the dam time. Now when he comes home Alex will be awake and i will not be able to do a thing and i cant clean with a sling on as he gets thrown about in it and get in the way. Since i sleep in my livingroom with cold weather and waiting on new window i am dumping clothes on bedroom floor as i have no time to put stuff away and cant bring Alex into cold room to clean it, also never gives me a chance to do anything. Now he is awake and I again will not get the chance to do anything and this place is a mess!

 

[cleckner04]

I'm reading that thread now Dragonfly. I saw you talking about it on FB and I just had to have a look. I never read the pregnancy sections anymore, I have them completely hidden since I'm not pregnant and plus those girls are always so ignorant of whats to come so they usually just piss me off.

 

[Dragonfly]

you can hide them? i must try. sad as i like to help with breastfeeding advice but i give up

 

[cleckner04]

Okay. Just finished reading it. I can't believe they are daring to argue with Wobbles. What are they thinking?!

Yeah you can hide the entire pregnancy section if you want. There are little arrows and you just click them to hide sections. I have the buy/swap/sell section hidden and the loss section hidden, etc. It's just easier that way so I don't have to scroll nearly as much to get to my usual spots on here.

I completely understand you wanting to help people with breastfeeding but I've found in general that pregnant women are clueless if it's their first child. They have this mindset that no one can seem to change. And than end up SO disappointed when everything doesn't go exactly to their plans.

 

[Dragonfly]

I think in new posts they still pop up.I just dont care any more its not worth the hassle.