Oh well done pistachio. That's fab!
I discovered today that dd can actually run about as fast as I can . We were racing each other at the gym this morning. It's a fab place - a proper gymnastics gym, but they run sessions for children a few times a week, where the kids can go on the beams, full size trampoline, asymmetric bars etc etc, and they put out loads of wedges and steps and other climbing stuff, as well as some rockers and ride ons and little slides for the younger ones. They even put out a small mat with a couple of baby seats and some baby toys. It's hard to imagine it, but it really is fab. Even dh was impressed and quite surprised at what it was like.
star - might be a daft question, esp from someone who knows v little about bottle feeding, but have you tried Q with a faster teat, in case that's the problem? Or tried him with a cup rather than a bottle during the day? I would imagine that if you stop pumping then he might struggle to up the supply enough over just a weekend to feed exclusively, but the long summer holidays (or even half terms etc) should be fine. It's worth starting a thread though, as I'm sure that lots of women have gone back to work and not expressed, but carried on feeding more when they are with the baby. In fact the more I think about it the more I think it would be feasible to do what you want. Is he drinking anything during the day? Are you feeding him directly at lunchtimes still?
MM's link says it all for you really loulou. Except it doesn't say well done for getting this far, and that there's nothing wrong with stopping now if you feel that it's the right thing for your family unit. Waiting til a year would save you the faff of formula though, as you could at least go straight to cows milk.
Think you already have your answer re payment for bf counsellors MM. Afaik, it's only the NHS ones that get paid, but the generally speaking better ones with NCT, ABM, LLL etc are all voluntary.
Keep us updated on the back carry practice aubergenie, as that's what I mainly want mine for too. In fact I must order mine tonight whilst I think about it.
aubergenie - are all of those wakings ones that require you to do something, or do you do something automatically because he's still in with you? I would hazard a guess that the number of wakes would reduce within a week or so if you put him in his own room. What do you do to get him back to sleep? I ask because some of those wakes are so close together that I wouldn't even have got ds back to sleep from the first before yours would be awake for the second!
Very sorry to hear about croup myjob. Dd has horrid cough all of a sudden - it even made her sick just before her tea tonight, but I assume it's 'just' a cough as she's had them before. I'm not actually sure how croup differs, so I might go look it up.
And no ladies, I wasn't head girl . But only because I left my primary school a year early so wasn't there in the year that I would have been head (was certain I'd have been deputy head at very least), and at secondary school I was sports captain for both of my 6th form years, so wasn't available for head girl duties. Thank you for my badge though - better late than never .
I imagine I will now have cross posted lots, as I started this message nearly an hour ago (ds has woken in between).