Meet-ups: WEST LONDON MEET-UP THREAD - July 2007 - from Acton to Sunbury everybody welcome

[mellow2]

Brand new thread for July.

I think I have mastitis again

nasty lump which I'm trying to get rid of...

Mega stressful day today. DS1 woke me , then spent morning trying to disperse milk lump, then burly Poles arrive, then mad dash to shops to buy present for DD party for friend, but DS1 lost his scooter at the shops, so we spent a hour retracing our steps. He found it but we were 1 hour late for party, me complete with sore boob.

Now we have Ds1's lively friend back and they want to kick me off my computer [help! - surrounded by 7 year olds!!!]

ouch, foxie, hope it's not..
at the rec for three hours with dd running about and being dragged through pool by her brothers. better sleep tonight!

kew - i was at the barn - obviusly not at same time as you. we were there when they gave all the cakes away at the end

hope you feel better..

sfx - 4 runs, that's fab. i just keep hoing my blubber is going to disappear if i stare at it long enough

right, i'm off for a lie-down
toodlepip

foxie - hope the lump bit goes and its not the dreaded mastitis

have been feeding for England with lots of vigorous massaging of lump - think it seems to be surrendering

DS2 gets very angry on that boob as the flow is somewhat interrupted

I found for blocked ducts massage followed by v. hot shower (including more massage in shower) followed immediately by feeding DS helped (repeat cycle until it works). You have my ouchie sympathies...

With massage while feeding, too. And trying to change angle of feed a bit from normal.

sorry Foxie you would have my sympathies but not something I had to deal with... siberian winter on the other hand I can identify with!

Lemon... name?

WHere are the newbies - please don;t tell me we have frightened them off?

Can someone contact Nanou and drag some dates out of her...

just sussed - middle name thread..

Are people around on 20 July (3pm ish) or 21 July (3-5pm) ?? Am trying (very badly) to organise a party for DD!!

Kew imagine siberian winter in yer nipples and you have got the picture!

Lemon - am so massaged out here LOL!! - hot showers directed on boob are great aren't they?

Are people around on 20 July (3pm ish) or 21 July (3-5pm) ?? Am trying (very badly) to organise a party for DD!!

Kew imagine siberian winter in yer nipples and you have got the picture!

Lemon - am so massaged out here LOL!! - hot showers directed on boob are great aren't they?

..am going to e-mail Nanou now...[trots off faking efficiency..]

...have e-mailed nanou asking for some dates

Quokka are you out there ...- how are you ??

sorry Foxie I'm away in IOW that weekend, not back until teatime Sunday.

morning all

foxie sympathies but have no experience / advice really hope it improves.

lemon bf toddlers is a bit of an acrobatic challenge at times, dd is most certainly self weaning these days she is only likely to feed if she wakes up during the night

in laws due back soon to take us out for the day, hope the weather holds so much easier just to take them to the gardens

Foxie, you have my sympathies, it must be so uncomfortable for you. Mega confession tho, I'm secretly jealous of you or any mums who bf. Loooong story but I failed bf miserably...

Have a lovely day all.

don't worry sushi - I didn't bf either

Sushi - how old are your LOs again? Sorry to have to ask, but my brain is non functional atm...

Sushi - BF is a very emotive thing. I had to give up feeding DS1 early cos I had so many problems - made me feel hugely incompetent etc, which is completely illogical.

BF can be such a nightmare when it goes badly - as well as incredibly painful it can be very upsetting too. I get very hung up about it

sushi's DS is about 20/22 months I think.

Can you beleive I feel inadequate for not having bf - seriously. Everyone goes on about how terrible it is to FF that I feel sad for DS.

Yes my DS is 21 months old now. Being taught BF is the best thing and realised I couldn't was a painful experience.

Well, having said that, as long as our DC are happy and healthy, this is all that matters.

Yours and Kew's are particularly happy and healthy little chaps -- having seen SushiSon I'd have guessed his age at older than 21 months so whatever you've been feeding him on has clearly worked for him (same for the gherkin, given how quickly he's reeling in the milestones).

DS shows nooooooooo signs of self-weaning yet. At least, he does occasionally not bother with the evening feed, but there's no sign of that developing into a trend. We have stopped feeding in the middle of the night, though (knocked that one on the head when I was briefly pregnant in January and have stuck to it as we're all sleeping so much better now).

thanks lemon - and of course I know intellectually that DS is fine. Before I had him I rationalised that the gap between bf and FF in reasonably educated and affluent families was probably not huge but I wasn't expecting to feel so defensive about it in practice. ANd it is particularly ridiculous in my case. It does goes to show how in sections of society the bf/ff has definitely swung significantly towards bf. Which of course is right but how do you stop alienating mothers who do no or cannot bf?

Don't think there is an answer to that but I hope to have stopped worrying about it by the time he leaves home.

Should that be SushiSan rather than SushiSon? Or is he too young for that?!

I still stress about what DS1 and DD eat nowadays, long after they weaned!

If its any consolation, I never touched a drop of breastmilk and I turned out OK [twitch] !!

Ignore my earlier post about DD's party - am having to rethink the whole thing now!

Kew - did you see that programme about a year ago where a Mum kept breastfeeding her kids for years as she wanted to adopt a baby girl from China and be able to offer her breastmilk. I think here youngest was 4 when she eventually brought the adopted child home and of course...she wouldn't go near the breast - never having seen one before! Thought she was being attacked by a ginat milky boob no doubt!

"giant milky boob"...not "gnat's milky boob"