So go on, how long after taking an E can I breastfeed?

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The Fabulous Zoe

excellent

Cor! Does she MN? I mean, she obviously does, but is she a reg?

since it is water soluble, as soon as it is out of your system, it is out of your breastmilk.

Brilliant article. But I had to read some sentences 12 times before I could follow them. What is it with Zoe Williams and sentence structure?

Or perhaps it is just my early-morning brain misfiring.

she's very good

Excellent.

I may even have to forgive her for producing her first post-baby piece in what seemed like seconds after the actual birth .

Well, it takes about three days for E to be metabolised by the body to the point where under 1% of its metabolies remain in the bloodstream.

So at least three days.

If anyone really wants to know.

metabolites

she gets paid for this? i am so in the wrong job

pmsl

very good. but i do agree with Threadworm, she is a little hard to follow!

Yes, great article but also agree that find it difficult to follow.

I knew it wouldn't take her long to find MN.

Lovely!

And mummy-journalism is usually dire, so it makes a nice change to read something nicely written, original and funny.

PMSL, classic.

I guess if she isn't one of us, she at least pops in from time to time

Thankfully my mum remembers well enough, I always call her first, then ask MN just to make sure.

Lovely article - ZW never rants, she's never catty and there's an underlying affection which really appeals. Those oldens and their rubbish memories, bless 'em.

It was a difficult to read article but so true, how many times have you heard "well you were potty trained at 9 months" or something like that?

Although I think she's being a bit kind to mumsnetters.

Have you noticed how the MN mums of teenagers have this huge memory deficit about what it's like to have toddlers. All they can remember is gazing lovingly at little cherubs sleeping in their beds. They've totally blanked out the years they spent fantasising about being able to just wantonly have cups of tea, open the fridge or clean their teeth without weeks of forward planning.

Well my children really did smile early - ds1 smiled at 2 weeks, and I said 'it's wind' but the HV was there and was so certain it was a smile she wrote it in his red book!

Ds2 smiled at 5 days - he had made his first weight gain, and I was SO happy (was v stressful time) I was beaming down at him and he smiled back. It was so much in response to me that it couldn't be anything but a smile. And he has continued smiling ever since.

Will read the rest now.

I've no trouble with her sentence structure but then I did Latin at school. It's great training for being able to still remember the beginning of a sentence when you finally get to the end of it several hours later.

It's so like my parents!

My mum is just like that - I asked her when I learned to swim as I knew it was just before I went to school, and she said 'oh you were 3' (just about possible) - 'you had done your mile (1500m) before you went into reception......'

Now I know this to be total rubbish, firstly if I had done a 1500m badge (64 lengths!) BEFORE I WAS 5 then something has gone wrong, because I should presumably be an Olympic cross-channel or even cross-ocean swimmer by now. But actually I can remember doing that badge, and it was just before I left primary school when I was 10! Which is slightly different...and ever so slightly less impressive....