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

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The Fabulous Zoe

I do find Zoe Williams' writing a bit puzzling to follow, but loved the article
I can already hear myself having ginger nut tendencies with my dsis and her gorgeous PFB

My mum was born in 1929 Torty, I will leave the rest to the imagination, but rosehip syrup, knitted leggings and quite possibly swaddling bands all have their place...as does Gripe Water, the infant's choice of beverage alcohol

Excellent article - that is my mother down to the ground.... she told me " labour must hurt more nowadays" Turns out she had an epidural........ and she said this to me, who has had 2 babies on no pain releif at all!!

"how many times have you heard "well you were potty trained at 9 months" or something like that?"
My MIL keeps telling me that my DH was potty trained at 18 months, then it;s 15 months, it's currently sitting at 13 until she puts a new bid in.
and he was speaking in sentences at 12 months.

she's great. I feel like she's been writing for yonks, but then she probably started very young...

god nearly gave up on that article ,difficult to follow her writing,but worth it in the end.

Agree about older mums,I can't remember much about dd's babyhood.

And my mum always insists my 3 brothers and I were never naughty or cheeky ever ever,unlike my ds

My mum has no such excuse - she was born in 1952, and she weaned me at 6 weeks, on bonemeal broth....

I also have a stash of knitted leggings upstairs that my children have never worn, because elastic in the waist was seen as superfluous!

And being from the north, my mum bypassed the Gripe Water completely, and recommends stout in the milk.

I gave dd gripe water

LOL at the ever-decreasing age of potty training purplemonkey

My ds smiled in the hospital, several times and always in response to someone smiling at him. It was noticed and commented on by several health professionals so ner.

oh yes, and we get the "why is DD crying? She's tired? Oh you lot just went to sleep when you were tired" . She has these freakily blissfull memories of our early childhood. My Sister, who is 15yrs older than me kindly pointed out that we certianly did cry, and were horrible little brats at times!!

Bonemeal broth? These days that's called vCJD in a bottle.

lol mp! My mum kept a record of my baby days, which I have upstairs, and it really does make quite shocking reading - the changes in attitudes. The b/feeding advice is COMPLETELY loopy! She also writes things like 'at 4 months old, t-shell is developing a bad temper and is fascinated with opening the kitchen cupboards. A few sharp smacks has soon taught her not to though.'

How on EARTH were you opening kitchen cupboards at that age TS...

ha, my mum rang to tell me to read this just as i was doing so .

Marina - she would put me in the kitchen while she was baking....so clearly I should have been reading Dickens or Austen while she was baking !

Roffle. My dear ol' ma thinks labour is more painful these days too. Apparently for her it was no worse than 'banging her head on the boot of the car'. I never cried, my brother was on steak and chips at 10 weeks and driving aged 5.

NB: Slight exaggeration.

My dd did smile at 10 days and at 29 weeks I can still vaguely remember that far back.

My MIL was quite worried about DS's feeding when he was a couple of weeks old - he was actually feeding very well but she swore blind that DH used to down 8oz a feed at that age...

My mum still has a diary where she diligently noted my feeds, sleep time, colour and consistency of faeces. Where did she find the time to do this, I still don't know.

According to my MIL, when aged 6 weeks, dh climbed out of his cot and crawled across the windowsill. She apparently caught him just in time, phew!

I've already forgotten everything about newborns and my dd is only two.

When I was pregnant I made the mistake of asking my mother's advice about pain relief in labour. She told me she hadn't needed any and that she'd had worse toothaches than labour pains (and I'm one of 7). Was only after dd was born that she casually mentioned "I never really enjoyed the pethidine..."

According to my mother, my younger brother freaked out the bakery van driver [rural emoticon] by toddling along the road, hands jammed in pockets and whistling.......At seven months!

Bless her... I tried not to laugh.

I failed.

I am the world's worst for thinking about babies and toddlers in with a severe case of rose tinted glasses.

dd is 11 and in my opinion she was easy as a baby. I seem to forget incidents like walking round and round the village on new years eve when she was tiny, simply to try and get her to sleep for the first time in days!

Ah Marina, 1929, I too have a mother of that "fine" vintage

Cod liver oil anyone?

(From a bottle, no capsules, with the teaspoon not being washed in between each of her 4 children)