Breastfeeding boxsets!

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Inspired by the fabulous 'first weeks' thread, I have decided to add some TV boxsets to my Christmas list! So far I have only thought of Downton Abbey as have missed the series but hear it was brilliant.

So ladies, and recommendations for bleary eyed, baby brain, bfing viewing!?

Another vote for West Wing and House.

Personally, I'd avoid anything shake-your-bones-funny while actually bfing... my poor DD got milkshake while I worked that one out

Well, I have never seen 24 so will be hijacking hubby's boxsets of that. I will probably also steal my mum's copious amounts of all the different CSIs. I want some comedy type stuff too so Scrubs, Family Guy and the like.

Nip tuck, footballers wives and bad girls. Mindless escapism. Oh and chuck.

The Wire - all five series because you'll go through them like nobodys business - and watch it with subtitles! The slang is hard to follow sometimes.

I watched Black Books and Spooks. Plus loads of films. I actually miss those days when all ds wanted was to be on the boob. Now I have to actually get up and play with him

The Wire
House
Mad Men
Brothers and Sisters
West Wing
The Closer
Desperate Housewives

Anyone suggested Spaced?

Brothers and sisters
Gray's anatomy
One tree hill

WestWing
Dexter
Mistresses
Californication

Another vote for sky+ too, I had weeks of Emmerdale to catch up on, while up with newborn

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (not big here but great series)
Skins (don't dismiss it on the ads alone)
Scrubs
Prison break 1&2 (stop the Dvd 10 mins before the end of series 2 as they should have done and dont bother with any more)
Heroes
Sex in the city

The Wire and West Wing both brilliant but I think they require too much concentration to do while doing something else.

How about In Treatment?

Spaced - absolutely. Although it made me want t eat Jaffa cakes and I was already hungry enough whenever bf'ing!

Family guy
Firefly
Arrested Development
Stargate and battlestar galactica -yes I am a sci-fi geek

And I always seemed to catch some rubbish show called Jericho at 5 am... I watched thinking it was a bit crap really but it still bothers me to this day that I never saw the ending.....what happened????

Can't believe noone's suggested The Sopranos. Best thing on TV ever.

The Sopranos does take quite a bit of concentration though and can be heavy going. Think my sky plus will be red hot making sure all the xmas rom coms and other mindless rubbish are taped ready for my April arrival.

Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager

The Shield. A frikkin mazing.

Gilmore girls. I sky + this to watch whilst bf dd2. It is wonderful and amazon do the box sets.

gray's anatomy
west wing
scrubs
gavin & stacey

West Wing all the way-watched the whole series once during preggy insomnia and again while bf
Buffy
Dawsons Creek

also watched the whole of the X-files-fab but not recommended. Not just because of the creepiness late at night, but also cos I got obsessed about the baby storyline towards the end, and was incensed that what happened was not realistic (v.sad!)

Ask around your friends and see what they've got, save on buying new. I'm swapping my entire ER series with a friend at the moment for House. I'm also film exchanging as well.

I've also got a PVR, with freeview. I record so much stuff to watch later, stuff that DH hates. Plus you can skip through the ad breaks.

You can also hire box sets via lovefilm and other similar types of post back rentals. But it's worth having a subscription where you have three of four dvd's at a time, so you can flow, rather than getting impatient. Ask around your friends as I recommended a friend and they got the same package as me free for 3 months [and so did I].

Oh, I forgot Futurama - the first four series are great.

Brilliant thread - was scouring Amazon only this morning for TV to get me through mat leave and bfing.

I've got Cold Feet and This Life on my wishlist, along with tons of period drama. It'll be a proper blub/hormone-fest!