will someone remind me why i bf!

[littlepiggie]

I am fed up, tired and need some sleep.

Ds is 8 months old and yes i know the hard part is over, but i am also 3 months pg, and worn out.

He is now going 7pm untll 6am, so not all bad.

6am- bf
8am- breakfast
10am- bf
12- lunch
1pm&3.30pm-bf
5pm-dinner
6.45pm-bf then bed
plus water/fruit juice in a cup at meal times.

so i dont know what my problem is, just tired and fed up. but i feel better for a moan.

Your problem is that you are pregnant, tired, fed up, and hormonal.

What's your plan once the baby comes - tandem feeding/weaning DS off before then?

The best advice I ever recieved was to just focus on one day at a time - don't think about tomorrow, just breastfeeding for today. Yes, I have had my wibbles with it (a lot the last few weeks), but the main reason I stick with it - I'm too bloody lazy to stop

Looking at your feed thingy, if you go out for a whole day, you'll need to take 4 bottles... or a nork - seems easier to do the latter .

Dunno if that helps remind you.

oooh, also, have a bath with him... feed him in the bath and get nice slippery warm cuddles - sit him up so he faces you sort of under your arm - he will look up and grin at you whilst feeding and it is the best feeling in the world.

hi littlepiggie. it's no wonder you feel tired you are pg and bf. maybe it might be time to ease off on the bf? i understand about the need to bf your first born so maybe other ladies who are more experienced with your situation can help better than i can? ttp x

Dont know what the plan is when baby number 2 comes, dont want to upset ds to much. Think that half my problem is that none of my family bf apart from my auntie, and the rest keep telling me how good there babies are, and how they slept through the night at 6 weeks. ds still wakes most nights a couple of times.

Just been silly, always feel like this if i get too tired, and ds has been up and down at night for weeks, the daft thing is he is not hungry in the night, he just wants me.

You are doing great! Keep telling yourself this and make sure you get enough to eat.

eating toast, toast and more toast, dont fancy anything else.

Ignore em - all babies are different and its sod all to do with milk.

Oh, do you co-sleep? Apart from being generally great and the best way to get sleep, if you co-sleep with your ds and your new baby they will have a fabulous bond

co slept when he was tiny, but he is to noisy, and would kick me and dh out of bed the way he fidgets. he is sleeping a bit better now he is in his own room, before that it was evey hour.

I thought the amount he eats, the ,ilk would only play a small past now anyway, this boy eats as much as i do.

Oh we all need a moan about bf sometimes. I think a lot of the time it is more to do with being so constantly 'in-demand' as a mother than bf itself. Why on earth do people go on about their babies sleeping through at 6wks? I think they are lying When anyone asks me how ds (21mo) is sleeping I proudly tell them he sleeps with us and wakes to bf during the night

Think that is a good point, i think sometimes i just want to be me, but i havnt been able to leave him untill now as he bf so much.
I must admit it was me that put a stop to the night feeds about a month or so ago, i started only feeding him at 10pm then not untill 5am so that he would start sleeping, but then he started up and down again, last week we cut out the 10pm feed, and he sleeps better???? not waking for it. He is better than he was, we have had 3 night in the last week where is is sleeping 7-5or6, but i am still up and down out of habbit.