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still expressing

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kiskidee · 27/02/2006 23:17

and it feels lonely at times. in addition with everything else of course, it makes for a long day. feeling a little sorry for myself tonight.

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jamiesam · 27/02/2006 23:25

sorry kidkidee, don't know your story (everything else?) but saw this and had to send my love.

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kiskidee · 27/02/2006 23:31

thanks. i work ft and have been expressing at work and once at night for dd for 6 months. (she's 10 months now) little cheeky monkey hardly eats anything and I can't really see an end in sight unless I drop a feed for her when she is a year. I'd hate to give formula after being so determined about bfing her all this time. (rather anal of me i feel sometimes.)

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Shivs1974 · 28/02/2006 08:51

Hi kiskidee - have you seen the expressing clique thread? Scroll down through the threads and you'll find us......there are lots of us who express at work and some of us who do it exclusively. I'm not sure my message is going to help - apart from to tell you that I have a love/hate relationship with my pump. Like you I'm determined to express for a year and at times really hate it. I pump 4 times a day as dd never latched on - so i do understand how you feel.....and wanted to let you know that you've done so well.

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kiskidee · 28/02/2006 13:24

hi shivs i am alux so been on the expressing thread. just feeling overworked and underappreciated and wanting to whinge.

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Shivs1974 · 28/02/2006 14:17

Oh poor you....I think you're entitled to have a moan. I thought I could get down to 3 pumps a day - but no, I'm not producing enough so I'm back up to 4. I'm counting down the days until she's 1.....got 79 to go....and they couldn't go quick enough. Not that I want my dd to grow up - but I just can't wait to put the pump in its box! Sometimes I think my stubbornness isn't such a good thing!

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kiskidee · 28/02/2006 15:33

its like me writing your post. dd is 50 days short of her first birthday (not that I've been counting but just counted since you did Grin) and hoping to provide ebm till then. she seems to think that food is a fad she can bypass as just having tastes of this and that some stuff (like chips) she just touches and screws her face up at.

What are you planning to do when your lo reaches a year?

her waking every 2 hrs lately means that I am getting a lot of broken nights.

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kiskidee · 28/02/2006 15:34

i think i am also a victim of my bloodimindedness.

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prettybird · 28/02/2006 16:05

I went back to wrok at 4 months and expressed until ds was a year.

I was fortunate though in that ds slept through from really young.

How much are you able to epxress? Has your dd dropped any feeds? When ds dropped his 10pm feed, I kept that going as an "expressing" time, so keep up my stocks.

You say she is waking 2 hourly at night - are you feeding her then? I was a really hard mum (but also 'cos I knew my son) and on the couple of occassions he did wake up, I refused to feed him, as I knew that he normally slept through.

It could just be that she has cottoned to the fact that you will feed her when she wakes - whereas if you left her, she would have a "bigger" feed later (ds used to have an enormous feed at about 6.30 am).

Congratulations on making it this far - and you will succeed in reaching a year! :)

chipmonkey · 28/02/2006 20:54

Hi kiskidee/alux! Just passed the year mark here and down to one express a week! Keep going, girl, you'll be glad you did!

popsycalindisguise · 28/02/2006 20:54

guess whay i am doing right now

popsycalindisguise · 28/02/2006 20:55

ds2 is 1 on sunday

popsycalindisguise · 28/02/2006 20:56

same with sleep as you

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kiskidee · 28/02/2006 21:25

guess what i am doing now.

dd just picks at food - all food except yoghurt. you would think i only started weaning 3 weeks ago by the amounts she eats so I am reluctant to drop any feeds or pumps.(I know that the 2 hr thing is a pee take - she just stirred and I ignored her and it went all quiet in less than 3 mins.)

OTOH, I am wonder if giving her access to all that milk keeps her from wanting solids. What do others think? She's my first.

I find that dd can survive well on 2 feeds per night (11 pm and 3 am) but she has just come over a long bout of teething plus fevers and colds so found it hard to let her be when she woke up more often than before. Plus with working full time, I just don't have the energy to sit up at 3am and make sure she goes down into her cot. I also enjoy having her in bed with me and dh (big hard ex Royal Marine) has gone all gooey and he doesn't mind either. But the end result is that he and I wake more with her there and if she can smell milk, she's on the booby every 40 mins and I just move her to the 'other side'. Last night I took her to the spare room at 2am and we all slept better. I moved her just a little further away from me and she stirred less. I need to find a happy medium methinks.

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popsycalindisguise · 01/03/2006 19:39

kiskidee - ds2 ios far far worse if in bed with us - milk bar open for business
he seems to feed for a few mins then turmns over and dozes for 5 mins then feeds etc

sometimes i dont realise i have brought him into bed though!!!

i mustcut out mid morning bottle - only small- as it is impacting on his solids intake

since he had a week in hospital he has been such a milk addict and turns his nose up at lots of food

chipmonkey · 01/03/2006 20:43

Popsy, I missed all that aboout your ds being in hospital. What was wrong? Is he OK now?

popsycalindisguise · 01/03/2006 21:28

Hi
He had something called lymphangitis with is a bacterial infection of the lymph nodes. badically one side of his neck swelled up dreadfully. Two different GOps sent me directly to the hospital who them fobbed me off with 'its viral'. A week later we went back to hospital, sent by a thirs GP and he needed IV antibiotics for 4 days and narrowly missed having to have an operation as the infection was close to turning into an abcess. He was discharged after 5 days with two lots of heavy duty antibiotics. Had one review and have a second in April

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kiskidee · 02/03/2006 01:01

bloody hell popsy. can't believe that it got so bad and the hosp fobbed you off.

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chipmonkey · 03/03/2006 00:54

OMG Popsycal, that sounds terrible! Your poor little ds! Hope he's feeling better!

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