to watch TV whilst I'm feeding ?

[zebedeethezebra]

Isn't this what most people do? Or am I being a bad mother?? DS is 15 weeks.

Even Loose Women can't damage a happily feeding baby.

What else are you meant to do? DD is 6 weeks and I've really only ever fed her whilst watching TV or MN-ed, usually both at once....

Isn't that what everyone does?
I caught up on loads of sky+ stuff when feeding.

Might draw the line at Jeremy Kyle though, simply cos it is total car crash tv. Yuck.

YABU...you should be reading your DS Shakespeare or listening to Mozart.

Or you could recite times tables...make sure they go into his subconscious early!

I used to feed watching discovery health, all those programs about giving birth etc. I learnt how to perform a c section.

I'm such a saddo I used to time my afternoon feed to watch Countdown (back in the good old days of Richard and Carol)

Are you kidding me - I got seriously addicted to Dawsons Creek when I was breastfeeding (marvellous E4 were repeating it at that point!) and pretty much learnt every line of Buffy... Time well spent I'd say!

Yep - I watched tv - all utter rubbish - diagnosis murder and the like... I thought thats was one of the benefits of BF??

I think that's why my kids now love Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

worst thing about feeding dc2 is the tv quality suddenly goes down. cbeebies just isn't the same as neighbours or whatever

enjoy before your tv explodes in a crazy world of singing and colour

I think it's actually compulsory to watch tv whilst feeding . I've stopped feeding DD now (just before Easter when DD was 18 months) but when she was younger it used to take aaaaages to feed her and she always twisted round to see what I was doing if I tried to read a book or do a crossword.

I did get really cross when DH left the tv remote at the other end of the sofa, out of my reach though. On a couple of occasions he actually came in while I was watching something, picked up the remote, changed the channel, put the remote down at the other end of the sofa and then left the room. Apparently he was "picking something for me to watch"

I got addicted to some seriously crap TV whilst breastfeeding - Neighbours, Doctors, old repeats of All Creatures Great and Small. Bliss.

What else can you do? I used to have the TV on during nightfeeds, mainly to stop me nodding off. I saw lots of News 24 and became very well informed but only cos there is sod else on at 4am.

actually found myself watching the same episode of Neighbours twice in one day...........Didn't change channels but that was in the days when I only had 4 to choose from!

Yep, my BF days also involved only 4 channels, so I'd tape things at night and watch them again and again (he was a slow feeder) ...

Buffy, Voyager, Undercover Heart - I think I could have recited the dialogue on all episodes word perfect .

I prefer DVD boxsets myself. I watched the entire series of SATC with DS1 and every single HOUSE episode with DS2.

But why do you ask? Seriously, what do you think you should be doing instead - I am genuinely curious?

Isn't that what Bargain Hunt's for?

I read a lot of very educational books but we don't have a TV so that was that
I drew that line at learning Japanese!

imho sky+ is an essential item on a newborn shopping list..

I have just done an online foodshop while feeding and am now MNing, still feeding.

If DH wasn't Xboxing I would be watching tv too!!

Feeding her is the only time I get to watch what I want on telly! DD1 (6) knows that when her sisters getting boobie I get to watch MY programmes! (one of the reasons DD2 is still being breastfed!)

You think thats bad...I go to bed and lie down AND watch tv while bf'ing. And I've fed 3 children for large parts of the last 5 years. Thats a lot of gilmore girls, law and order and top chef, I can tell you.

Enjoy, if you have another its not quite the same doing it in front of cbeebies

I was SATC with DS1 and House with DS2 as well.

I developed a v v serious crush on Hugh Laurie. I think it was the bfeeding endorphins.

Strange thing though - I watched Bleak House with DS1. And then when I watched it again after had finished BFeeding I got the same feeling of bfeeding contentment.

Spooky.