I need sweets!

[Nagoo]

I'm breastfeeding a 3 week old.

I'm breathing in sweets and mince pies, cakes and gingerbread men, whatever I can get my hands on!

I've put dried figs in the sweetie drawer as a decoy, and I didn't get any goodies from the supermarket, but DH is a teacher and just came home with a load of sweetie shaped presents from the kids!

Will this settle down on it's own accord, or will I need to exercise self-restraint?

For weeks after DD was born I could hardly eat anything apart from cherry nutrigrain bars and banana milkshake . Your hormones are probably still all over the place but things should settle down soon. I can barely look at a bloody cherry nutrigrain bar now!

Try to eat as wide a range of food as you can and taking some vitamins will help as well. And make sure you drink plenty of water or juice.

Look - as long as you're also eating your veggies, go for it. Eat those sweets!

The amount I ate when DD was tiny was obscene.

And I was back in my pre-preg jeans within 6 weeks.

Breastfeeding is a marvellous thing.

Restraint whilst bfing, that's a new one on me .

"Sweets should only be eaten as part of a balanced diet". Forget that, your LO obviously needs it and I think my milk was largely made of chocolate and cake. Had a bit of a thing for Tunnocks Teacakes and used to eat a 12 box at a time.

Don't worry though, my appetite and weight went back to normal when I eventually gave up bfing so yours should be the same.

Congratulations, you sound like you are doing a brilliant job.

Jelly babies for me. Yum.

DS 18w and I'm still scoffing anything in sight

I love you people.

I lived on Hobnobs for weeks on end. I even found a recipe to make my own if I'd run out and couldn't be arsed going out. Bloody lovely.

Chocolate fudge brownies for me. And piles of dairy milk. For the first month at least, DS was made of 90% refined sugar.

It does calm down. Enjoy the serendipitous timing of it being Christmas, and scoff on!

(my DH is a teacher too. Am eyeing up his bag. Sure there's chocolates in there :) )

well DD is 9 months and I'm scoffing an almond and chocolate bar. When I'm not doing that it's chocolate brownies

In fact, at one stage when I had an upset tummy and didn't fancy mainlining Starmix eating as much, the weight dropped off rather alarmingly...

can already make own hobnob substitutes

I'm eating chocolate orange segments as i read, when i've finished those i'll probably move on to some cadburys dairy milk or perhaps a packet of jaffa cakes.
I figure that as long as I eat plenty of healthy food too I can eat as much sugar as I like - and I was back in my pre-preg jeans at about 6-8 weeks
My DH has bought me mostly chocolate for christmas

I'm feeding a 10 week old & feel hungry all the time.not as bad as a few weeks ago though when I was ready for lunch by 11.

I could (and still can) eat a whole tin of condensed milk.

Or a whole 6 pack of jam tarts.

I also switched from a quarter to a half chicken when I go to Nandos.

I don't know how I'll go back to eating normal quantities of cake and chocolate.