June Bundles of Joy - 2016

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Squig I'm so glad your scan went well today - it sounds like they're taking great care of you!
 
Squig I'm so glad you have such a concrete plan in place :) please do stay in the June group I'd miss you!

Both other times I've started by purely breastfeeding but then changed to combination feeding after a while to get some sleep and it's worked nicely for us. All I hated is warming a bottle in the night so I'm definitely planning on getting a perfect prep tommee tippee machine this time for the middle of the night!
 
I want to get a perfect prep machine too, they sound brilliant but I'm still a little scared of getting one that I'll end up full time bottle again, I was made to feel so bad by the midwife for combi feeding ds that I worry about this time around.

Squig I'm glad it all went well and that you have a good plan set in place, don't worry about the date lo will be born - babies rarely come on their due date and most of us due towards the end of the month could very easily end up giving birth in July!

These migraines are driving me mad :(

We didn't buy bedding sets with lo either but this was a second hand one pretty much like new for £12 - I got it more so for the matching curtains, lampshade and cute little pictures :haha:
 
I wish we had someone who could pass us stuff down :lol: no one has really had a baby in our family's I'm first to have kids in mine and OHs all siblinds are under 14 bar one who has a 3 year old boy :haha: I have a few bits from DS but mainly obviously boy clothes/things so depending what gender this one is ..

I couldn't breastfeed with DS milk didn't come in for nearly a week :nope: I had so many problems as well specially with him being a hungrier baby :( I am going to this time of all goes ok clueless about it all though I barely got any support back with DS.

I plan on using a carrier/sling this time majority think OHs mum said she'd buy us the pushchair sceptical though as she's already told me the style she likes which isn't my taste at all I feel bad when people offer to buy something and want you to go for a certain type :dohh:
 
becyboo - talk to her about it and tell her that you'd prefer a different type and show her the one you'd like - after all as the one that'll be pushing it around you should decide!
 
It's the same with the private scan though she offered to pay but seems to only want to go to a certain place I've said others aswell to her as one they are cheaper anyway and two we could of gone before Christmas which you thought was great but still wants to go to the other :dohh: which is fully booked til 2nd Jan and after which seems a waste when we have our scan anyway like 18th Jan .. I don't know :rofl: I definitely won't be having something if I don't like it as you said I've got to use it everyday just so difficult sometimes to disagree :haha:
 
Great news squig =)


I have nothing to buy really. I'm going to replace the mattress in my son's Moses basket and maybe build up the courage to buy cloth nappies. Something a person shouldn't really admit but : I have wanted to use them for years with both my boys but I think I'm too lazy lmao. I can hardly keep up with my wash pile as it is. Haha.

I do need a new buggy. Will need a double. Ughhh. No fun. My choices will be either buy a tank or spend a fortune. I like prams but doubles are crap lol.

I CO slept and exclusively breastfed my youngest so with the assumption that I can do that again. That should keep things nice and cheap =) if u sleep topless they will just latch themselves on. Hahah. Nice long sleep for me. =)
 
I was really lucky with Xander - even though he was such a big baby I had no issues breastfeeding. He was ebf till 6 months when he started eating food, I carried on feeding him till 19 months

It would have been great had I not daydreamed about getting hit by a bus so I could get some sleep :dohh:

I need more help thus time so I think I'll be combined feeding
 
You should rhi! I need the the courage to buy newborn cloth nappies as we only switched to cloth when lo was round 4/5 months old, I don't know why newborn in cloth nappies sounds more daunting :haha: I need to find our nappies and give them a deep clean - they've been in a box for years now!

Would you consider a carrier and single buggy for the early days? maybe by the time you need a buggy for baby your lo can go on a buggy board? (I have no idea of age so just making wild assumptions here !) you might be able to find a reasonably priced one double on ebay.


apart from the mattress and car seat we're buying everything second hand, I bought the buggy in 2013 for DS so it's new enough to use again thankfully.

I have no idea what it'll be like breastfeeding! I know I was producing lots of milk but DS wouldn't latch - to me or bottle, it was a nightmare.
 
Beckyboo I had the same problem...my milk didn't come in for over a week and my son was starving so I ended up formula feeding. I think I'll try breastfeeding this time and see how it goes.
 
vaniilla said:
You should rhi! I need the the courage to buy newborn cloth nappies as we only switched to cloth when lo was round 4/5 months old, I don't know why newborn in cloth nappies sounds more daunting :haha: I need to find our nappies and give them a deep clean - they've been in a box for years now!

Would you consider a carrier and single buggy for the early days? maybe by the time you need a buggy for baby your lo can go on a buggy board? (I have no idea of age so just making wild assumptions here !) you might be able to find a reasonably priced one double on ebay.


apart from the mattress and car seat we're buying everything second hand, I bought the buggy in 2013 for DS so it's new enough to use again thankfully.

I have no idea what it'll be like breastfeeding! I know I was producing lots of milk but DS wouldn't latch - to me or bottle, it was a nightmare.
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He will be 2 in Feb. So I would imagine his days in a buggy are numbered but I think I remember walking my oldest to nursery in a buggy and if that's the case he was well over three. I would seriously consider using a sling actually and if I could find the perfect one, that would be awesome. I had a ergo with my youngest. It was so damn expensive and everyone says it is amazing and you are supposed to be able to carry 4 year olds in them. I struggled to carry an infant around in one for half an hour at a time =/ I should probably hit the gym :haha:
 
Glad everything went well Squig!

I'm hoping to breastfeed, I managed a month with DS then combi-fed until he was about 2 months then it was just formula, seemed to cost a fortune. He cluster fed which was really difficult, it was always at midnight until 5am!
 
I had absolutely no bother breastfeeding my second he latched and fed fine. But I still felt come 8 weeks that combination feeding was the way forward for us. Nobody ever made me feel bad at all. What has it got to do with anyone else anyway? I'm sure some people would think that if breastfeeding was going ok then I should've continued but I'd much rather be happy. I think because this is time number 3 for me I feel very relaxed about that kind of stuff (unlike first time when I felt I HAD to BF and Jack ended up bright yellow jaundiced and readmitted for weight loss and on the bilibed lamps and I STILL felt I should ebf!)
 
Lil_Pixie said:
I was really lucky with Xander - even though he was such a big baby I had no issues breastfeeding. He was ebf till 6 months when he started eating food, I carried on feeding him till 19 months

It would have been great had I not daydreamed about getting hit by a bus so I could get some sleep :dohh:

I need more help thus time so I think I'll be combined feeding
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Well that prep machine thingy looks awesome. I think it will make night feeds alot less difficult. Nothing worse than fumbling around in the dark trying to make a bottle. With one eye open and everything is all blurry :haha: spilling it all over the shot.

Wish they had invented bottle prep machines when my oldest was a baby haha.
 
Just bought a prep machine! The black one is £59.99 on Amazon right now which is the lowest it's been! My son had tongue and lip ties and I fought and fought to ebf until 8 weeks when I caved at the advice of a lactation consultant and gave formula 'top ups' which led to combi feeding until 8 months. This time I feel much like Boo, Micah thrived on a combination of my milk and formula, but on my milk alone we were all suffering. I'll probably ebf for a while to get my milk in if I can but I'm happy to combined feed once bf is established. I think personally it was better for us.
 
I'm hoping to be able to bf but also to express for 1-2 bottles a day to give me a break occasionally. However, I guess I'll just take it as it comes since I've no previous experience on which to base the possibility -or not- of success! Although my boobs have gotten so big, baby might struggle to feed from me!! How many times should you expect your size to go up? I've already gone from DD to F & I'm not even 13 weeks yet; been in the F cup for a few weeks now.
 
I have been looking at everyone's prams recently too. I still have ours from DD, it was well used, didn't anticipate just how much walking I would do when I chose it. I have a lovely Urbo, but not sure it will stand up to another 18 months of the amount of walking we do.

I am still breastfeeding - well dry nursing, as my milk dried up about 6/7 weeks ago. Also, I have just come to the end of my breastfeeding peer supporter training, so I will be out in the community helping new mum with all of the issues previously mentioned here and more! It's such a shame when I hear someone say they didn't get any support in the beginning :(
 
Oh I'm so tempted to buy the perfect prep now that's a great price! Think I'm just a bit paranoid about buying things too early especially now with this placenta... But that has me so tempted!
 
joo said:
I have been looking at everyone's prams recently too. I still have ours from DD, it was well used, didn't anticipate just how much walking I would do when I chose it. I have a lovely Urbo, but not sure it will stand up to another 18 months of the amount of walking we do.

I am still breastfeeding - well dry nursing, as my milk dried up about 6/7 weeks ago. Also, I have just come to the end of my breastfeeding peer supporter training, so I will be out in the community helping new mum with all of the issues previously mentioned here and more! It's such a shame when I hear someone say they didn't get any support in the beginning :(
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I really looked for support too. I went to a bf group run by health visitors and I knew something was wrong, bit I was told over and over that he was feeding fine and a 'poster boy for a good latch' despite dropping several percentiles and being miserable all the time. He was 8 weeks by time I saw a bf counsellor and was told he only swallowed once after 10 mins feeding and referred me to a lactation consultant who diagnosed the lip and tongue tie. But by then my supply was affected and he was struggling so I had to give formula and pump all hours to up my supply again. It was he'll tbh. You'll be doing such an important job as a bf counsellor. :hugs:

P.S. I have an Urbo too and walk a lot, hoping mine holds up for this baby as I love it!
 
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