STRESSED ABOUT WEANING AND WORK ECT

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Hi-I am going back to work in a fortnight for just 2 days a week.My baby is 28 weeks old and I fully breastfed until about 2 weeks ago.I am slowly getting him used to tastes by mixing EBM (expressed breast milk ) with baby rice and a pureed vegetable or fruit.I am however getting into a right state about what sort of regime I should be aiming for.I am someone who has to have a plan in mind and the harder i try the more confused Im getting.I am so worried about doing the wrong thing and really want to breastfeed as long as pos-we have a horrible history of allergy in the family.Should I be dropping a lunchtime feed now or just when Im at work. If so do I ask the childminder to offer him water or breast milk as an after dinner feed ? How many milk feeds should I expect him to have when I1m not there ?Has anyone got some sort of back to work plan or a good book they could recommend please.Believe it or not I am a health professional, but as such all my collegues expect me to know all these things.I have asked them for advice but my health visitor just assumes everything is fine because all she knows of me is the very organised and professional person i become at work !Really I am down in the dumps and fed of of them all assuming I am a role model in motherhood !!Sorry to moan-any advice would be most welcome.

But be careful of the ice cube trays. I reverted to those over Christmas but managed to smash one trying to get the sodding cubes out. Gone back to using bags but in small quantities IYSWIM.

Could you also put a stick-on child lock on your door yourself?

Can I just say my sodding D(huh!) P has just complained - AGAIN - about the milk in our freezer. It needs defrosting, he said huffily. I don't know why you keep adding to it, he added equally huffily. Well, I don't see him complaining when we go out and don't have to take formula, do I, or indeed don't see him carefully removing the right amount for dd2 to top up what I've expressed (or indeed any of dd2's other food, but then he does seem to take over cooking for dd1 most weekends) aaaaargh bloody sodding fathers rant rave shall return to earning living grumble whinge...

Maybe men have an obsession with freezer defrosting - my dp has a date in the diary to defrost ours next weekend now all my EBM has disappeared. He seems very excited about it! Must say he was very good humoured about the lack of room for any of our own food for the last year. At one stage there were three drawers taken up with either milk or frozen food for dd, and all we had room for was a loaf of sliced bread and a bag of frozen peas!

My dp is a great believer in frozen (organic) veg, and we do tend to bung in things which are reaching (or past) their eat-by date. I shall point out that other fridges have more than one drawer full of baby provisions. Which will mean we have to eat the ice cream he bought the other day, of course.

I have incidentally never met a man who could live without frozen peas. Is it some sort of willy thing?

I sincerely hope not MI because my dh is very sniffy about them and merely tolerates their presence in the freezer. Despite a succession of delicious soups and risottos (risi e bisi anyone, yum) he is still not convinced.
Must resurrect your Moooo thread, just expressed 10oz. All I have to do is convince dd to keep drinking this bountiful provision, she really is an all-or-nothing-girl.

Marina, can I come round eat risi e bisi? My dp is sniffy about risotto.

It will amuse you to know I have been commissioned to review breast pumps for one of the baby mags. A selection will be arriving at my door over the next couple of weeks for me to try.