And this week's babies are...

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We are awaiting annoucements from Honeybunny and Eulalia... and maybe others !
We're thinking of you

Congratulations Ariel! Your little boy must be made of strong stuff- like his Mummy I suspect. Hope things continue to go well for you.

Congrats Ariel, what a worry, glad everything's so well now. Keep enjoying!

Well done Ariel, glad your little one has pulled through so well.

Many congratulations to Chelle & Ariel

Congratulations to the new mums ... seems to be a bit of a baby boom going on here just now! I've been a bit out of it for awhile dealing with my newborn. Soundly sleeping just now but no doubt soon to awake for her evening stint!

I have my birth story to post - not sure where to put it. Will have a look around ...

Started a new topic - 'Birth Stories' - hope some of you can find time to post there.

Eulalia, look forward to reading your birth story. Are you doing tandem feeding? 3 months to go and ds shows no sign of losing interest.

Malmomum - yes I am tandem feeding. It has turned out OK fortunately. My son often only needs a few seconds and that seems to keep him happy. I don't really enjoy feeding him the way I used to any more - I do it more as a favour to him (he is 3 in July). I haven't had many 'fights' over my boobs although it can get irritating first thing in the morning when daughter is hungry and I'd rather just snuggle down with her and my son wants a look in. I do sometimes tell him to wait as I think he is old enough to understand that and besides my poor daughter needs her milk more than he does!

He was down to only one 'feed' a night before I had her and I am sure would have weaned himself fairly soon. However these past weeks he has wanted to feed more obviously just for reassurance and because he is seeing me breastfeeding more often.

I think it has probably helped with jealousy which has hardly been an issue as he sees that he is still 'allowed' to feed and he is not excluded.

If you don't think you want to tandem feed I'd try to stop now while you still have time. What age is your son? The older he is the longer it will take him to forget. Good luck with whatever you decide and if you want to ask anything just give us a shout.

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