How lovely Eva - we'll be all gooey and romantic for the next year then, Nicey, you and hopefully me too (we've been engaged since Jan last year & were going to be married in April this year but DS's arrival sort of jumped to the head of the queue - I've just managed to get the topic back into the discussion and we're hoping for June next year)
Mum2BR - I WANT to drink a glass or two every evening but OH isn't really a wine drinker and I feel a bit odd opening the bottle just for me. Still, he is the one that keeps buying crates of wine. Maybe he secretly wants the encouragement?
Expressing times are a bit of nightmare for me at the moment - I used to do it in the early morning after he'd fed on one side I'd express the other. Now he's sleeping til 6:30-6:45 most days and waking up more hungry so taking both sides. Days where he's missed the late evening feed altogether I'll express then, or I'll wake up engorged and express hoping that it'll be another hour before he wakes.
I know that your breasts make more milk to replace whatever gets taken but DS reaction makes me think it doesn't happen instantaneously (how can it - there must be some lapse between your body registering the lack and gearing up to produce more??) as he does seem frustrated if there isn't the usual big gulping drink he gets normally.
I was thinking about trying to do it regularly as soon he's goes down for his big nap, but that feels like just one more thing to squeeze in.
I always feel like the starter's gun has gone off the moment he goes down - and she's off, makes her lunch, tidies up the kitchen, dishwasher on, can she get a load of laundry underway and the other one out on the line? mumsnet while chewing, quick internet shop/email check, racks brain to try to remember what time he went down and how long he might sleep for, looks in despair at piles of summer/winter/maternity clothes she's been trying to sort into/out of boxes for storing, decides to clean bathroom instead (faster and more likely to be completed), packs bag for afternoon trip to baby clinic and mentally rehearses plan for getting there on time (feed, then change, then babycarrier on bus? or change, then feed, then stroll with pram? either way it'll screw up his napping)...oops - there he goes. Times up.
...anyone else?
Scamp, actually I did read during my pregnancy but ONLY stuff about being pregnant. And I actually have read whole books about babies since then. I don't count those, they're just part of the obsessive preoccupation with all things baby. I started but didn't finish about three novels and still haven't managed to find anything non-baby-related at all interesting. I think I'm just going to have to acknowledge it and find a novel that has baby/mum stuff in it - and then gradually wean myself off them. Haven't tried reading with the breastfeeding pillow - am normally doing one-handed internetting. I did do the reading thing yesterday when doing the evening settle and that was great..although not so great for my eyes as his room is actually quite dark and I was too scared to flick the lamp on.
He settled at 8:30 all by himself after some quite energetic kicking.
I think I've got a dependency problem with my BF cushion - it's so good for us at home that I think it might be why he doesn't feed so well when we're out. I don't really know how to support him, my arms & back get tired, he seems uncomfortable. should I feed without it more often at home?