Due April 2008 - the food porn thread for expanding waistlines!

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Hello

Good luck santagitta, let us know how it goes

Afternoon all. Just back from midwife & guess what have put on exactly 1kg She was as shocked as me VS - great piccie

DS's concert was a hit yesterday so am taking him to McDonalds after school as a treat (he doesn't know yet). He also got a really good school report (all A's & B's) so another good excuse to eat junk

Gosh, it is quite today

this is good for a Friday afternoon giggle

i am too busy freaking out.

think ds2 has threadworms .am off to docs at 4.50. hope i can have medicine too?

Scorpio - hope he´s OK & you & Millie too obviously!
Toast - I was thinking the same thing. However, I´m off in a mo too

Hello all. Things are well here, suffering from two consecutive nights out () but very happy it's Friday and next week should be a doss. Slightly concerned that after that it's Christmas and I've still bought NOTHING apart from DH's present.

Help - can't stop eating. Is there any point even trying in December?

Scamp - I´m sure you´ll be ready by Christmas And, no, there´s no point in trying to contain your eating habits in December. Even my midwife agreed with me on that one today

Good! I'll go and help myself to more of the birthday biscuits that are just sitting there waiting to be eaten, then. It's really an act of salvation on behalf of all those who don't have a valid excuse like a hungry foetus.

Mumsnet is really annoying today - the top bit comes up but I have to refresh about five times to see any posts.

My SPD is oooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I can barely walk. I'm a dickhead for walking/running 5 miles on Tues then 7 on Weds (all commute and nursery run, by the way, not voluntary exercise!).

Scorpio can I ask you a question please? I remember you saying you don't breast feed and I just wondered what happens if you don't? Do they just dry up? Is it painful if you don't feed?
I know there are prob very silly questions but I don't know anything!
I'm going to try but want to know what happens if I can't get the hang of it. Are there any benifits to formula in your opionion? I suppose you must think there are.
I would just like to hear advice from someone who didn't bf.
Hope you don't mind me asking.

TA, this thread is great

I'm so so so tired. am packing now, the movers will get my stuff on sunday and then it's eva goes west
guess I will miss a few things like my family and friends, snow, bread, cakes and austrian things generally...
maybe it's better to be homesick now when I'm still here rather than later

well then, I better get back to my boxes.
have a nice weekend all

dolly

its fine to ask, dont worry!

about day 3 post birth, my boobs filled up with the proper milk and they go really hard and very full. it HURTS ALOT. i banged them in the shower a day later and loads of milk came out - i had to start again. it takes a few days for the pain etc to stop, and then its back to normal, for me anyway. i had to sleep sitting up they hurt that much.

i dont think that formula is best, it does however work for me and i know my babies have done fine on it. breast is best and i think its great so many people do it. i seem to have some sort of mental block on the idea of having milk in my breasts and feeding my baby myself - the thought and sight of milk makes me cringe.its not because i think breasts are sexual either.

Jamie rooted at birth for my breast and i cried because i just couldnt bring myself to do it, even though my precious newborn wanted to. that thought makes me cry to this day. i think if Millie roots like Jamie did i will ask the MW to help me this time, to just do the first feed and go from there.

i also think me feeding bottles stems from when i had Reilly at 17, i had never held a baby before and felt that if i had formula at least i knew how to feed him, iyswim? and becuase it worked well and was positive for me, i did it with Jamie too.

the benefits for me include dp sharing at night, friends being able to do it too and knowing more when the baby may feed, and how much. my babies have both been fine on formula, not overweight or anything and have both weaned well.

i do think its good you want to know about formula, but breast is best if you can, and i do wish i could. i have tried talking to MWs, friends, etc but i still cant quite imagine it.

Scorpio, your post just made me go all tingly. I really hope that if millie does root you are able to do it. At least if you do it and hate it you can be satisfied you tried.
Good Luck
BTW, I found it really strange with dd, and think that was part of the reason that I didn't succeed, combined with her not really helping as she was prem, with DS it wasn't so strange. After that first feed I was still a bit unsure, but I grew to love it and can't waitto do it again, although I am quite nervous about starting it all off even though I've 'done it before'.

im going to ask the MW to put it on my birth plan, and have already told dp that if she does i want to try to,for that first one. if i dont like it i can just take her off can't i? if i do lke it i will try next time she crys for food....etc etc.

i think that will be the way forward, especially as i know i have bottles/milk here. i will feel so proud if i do it though!

Of course you can take her off!!!
WRT birth plans, write your own and make sure it is at the forefront of your notes with your most important preferences in bold. I might do mine now actually.
here is a link Klaw gave me that I'm going to use to help me.

i just didnt really know how to get her off...vaguely remember my friend putting a little finger in the corner of db mouth?

our MW's here are really very good, and want to do everything our way. my MW is very supportive and has said dp can catch Millie if he wants, she won't really do internal after the first check, etc etc, so very good.

Yes, you can break the latch that way. If it's something you're really considering have you thought about posting a thread?? I really don't know that much tbh but I know tiktok and hunker would be able to answer all your questions, and we'd protect you from any possible 'YOU MUST BREASTFEED YOUR BABY YOU EVIL WOMAN' posters (there really aren't that many )

i just know (having seen them) that it will turn into a westernised world sexualisation of breasts converstaion! (when that is not my issue whatsoever)

i have been reading the threads since pg with db3, i am considering it more with each week and definitely the most i ever have done.

i know that if she looks for it i will ask to be helped, and i guess im not planning much more beyond that iyswim?

Yes, I understand completely. Thing is, although your midwives may be great, they don't actually train wrt breastfeeding so can often make things worse without meaning to.

thanks VS for your help, i may ask you stuff again!

im having a 3d scan tomorrow!!!!! SO excited!!!

here

Oh, Scorpio, a 3D scan! I am hoping to get one of these but don't know how the finances will be in the New Year! I am paying for a private consultant over here and it will be Eur3000 but I only get normal scans for that, not 3D ones! Do give the bfing a go as well, I know a lot of the time on MN you see a lot of stories about sore nipples etc which can happen but I found it all relatively painless. And even if you didn't like it, Millie would have gotten some colostrum which is great stuff!

its £95 for us tomorrow

Hello everyone, I have been lurking around for a while but have been mega paranoid about anything and everything and superstitious that if I started posting something would wrong. Stupid I know ! So anyway I've had my 20 week scan (and a follow up growth scan to check the long bones were growing - everything is now way within the normal range thank God!) and am now 23+4 which means I'm due on 9 April 2007. I'm 33, live in South East London and this is my first baby. Oh, and it's going to be a boy! Very very excited about everything but also a little nervous...

Welcome, bashboid!

Thanks Chipmonkey! Had a really stressful day today - car broke down when I was driving along on my own and I only just managed to navigate my way off the dual carriageway before the car came to a grinding halt. The accelerator cable had snapped. Cue emotional outbreak of 10 minutes bawling before I could even think about ringing the AA to come and rescue me. I was a right state - just couldn't pull myself together which is not like me at all so I guess that's pregnancy hormones for you!! Fortunately the pregnancy card paid off and they fetched me and drove me home within 40 minutes. Still thawing out now though.