Morning all
Ses, I'm not going to repeat everything everyone else has said, the main thing I always kept in mind was just to go with the flow (no pun intended!) I took no notice of when or for how long they fed for, just looked out for the hunger signs (so I wasn't just feeding them if they were actually crying for something else) and it was only when I got to about 6 weeks when I'd notice any sort of pattern to their feeds. Notice I said pattern, not routine, even now with Mikey, I know that it's roughly every 3 hours between bottles, but there are a couple of times a week when he want's a bottle only about half an hour after he had the last one, so I take my cue from him, I'm not going to leave him hungry and crying for 2 and half hours because he isn't 'due' one yet! And in the same vein yesterday he had his first bottle at 7-ish, didn't have another till gone 2pm, (though I did give him a bit of water around 10 o'clock) he just didn't want any food for a little while (Having said that, especially in the first few weeks of BF, you need to at least offer the breast every 3 hours, even if he's showing no signs of wanting it by then.) Also, try not to get all worked up about him following the centiles in the red book, the lines are only averages, and they are averages based on formula fed babies, BF babies grow at different rates so the lines are never going to tie in. You'll know about the growth spurts BF have, FF babies don't tend to have a growth spurt as such, so if they'd print off the centile charts based on BF babies the lines would be a very dfferent shape. Sorry, have warbled
Glask, what a great opportunity! Go for it with bells on woman
Diege, I know it's easier said than done, but try not worry, there is lots of time left for baby to get in a better position, it only takes a matter of moments for him to move, he's got a good few weeks to do it! Your birthing ball is a really tool to help positioning.
OK, I have a bit of a worry, well a big bit of a worry if I'm honest. Realised my period is a week late. DH is going to pick a test up today. I am shitting it, I can't, we can't have another baby now, and I do mean we really can't. And I am so pissed off because we have been soooooo careful, condoms, no accident's, spillages or splits or anything, we've not done the dipping thing, no touching him then me sort of thing. I don't know what to do. I have symptoms.