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Today Linnea was dropped off at friends in the morning and they kept her until about 4:30 pm. This provided me with some much-needed rest, but I missed her! Especially at lunchtime. Whatever else we do - me on the computer, her doing her own thing - we always reconnect at lunchtime and eat together, even if we both read while we do it.

I missed her terribly. She didn't miss me at all. So I'm doing something right, I suppose.

I stayed in bed with my feet up for most of the morning, and then went down to be ready for the NCT coffee afternoon, and loads of people came. I know why, too - there was only one event scheduled this week, and usually there are several. (Again, of half a dozen mothers, none had managed to breastfeed without formula supplementation at all. There is something wrong with the "help" people are getting when they're learning, really there is. I know loads of mothers and babies personally, locally, and almost none who didn't need to use formula at some stage).

I need to stop offering people the comfy chair when they say they need to feed the baby. None of them meant breastfeeding at all, and it seemed to make them uncomfortable. (And none of them could hold the baby and prep a bottle, yet - it must take more practice than I thought, because I remember my formula-feeding friends all did bottle-prep one-handed).

The other things they all talked about were having to pick the baby up all the time - something I was glad to be able to do when I was well enough - and how hard it is to fit all the packing for a baby into the boot of a car when going on holiday. I am an alien.

I'm sitting back up on the bed now, to stop my ankles swelling up. I called my mother for an hour earlier; her books are all packed up (she's selling her house) and she's feeling their loss sorely. She keeps going to look things up and not being able to.

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Date: 2006-08-01 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com
I have bottle-prepped (formula, cow milk, goat milk, and human milk) and fed babies one-handed before, plenty of times. It's doable. But it takes practice.

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Date: 2006-08-01 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)
Sorry we kept her so long. Well, I'm kind of not, it was nice to have her, but I know what it's like looking around an empty house and wondering when they're going to bring your kids back!

Add me to your "no formula" list. There is a lot wrong with bfing help, imo. Lulah was the only one of mine who would take a bottle, and I could pretty easily get a bottle for her ready one-handed, as it only involved taking it out of the fridge and sticking it in the microwave ;-) I liked carrying mine about too, and was quite proud of myself for all the things I could do one-handed - even cracked buttering toast with Lulah, lol.

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Date: 2006-08-01 09:07 pm (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28
how hard it is to fit all the packing for a baby into the boot of a car when going on holiday

You aren't the only alien. Tony and I get funny looks when we say our criteria for baby things is "must be able to carry on a train".

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Date: 2006-08-02 07:36 am (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28
Something I'm curious about is managing cloth nappies while actually travelling (i.e. on the train/bus/ferry whatever).

I'd made the assumption that I'll get a small stock of disposable nappies (the most ecological I can find) for long journeys because I assumed dirty cloth nappies would be a pain to carry around for that long and it would be easier to just use and ditch a few disposables, though obviously I'd still use cloth nappies at the destination. Our most common requirement will be 9-10 hour train journeys to/from France, to visit one or other of Tony's parents.

Anyway, you say "using cloth nappies" so now I'm wondering, do you use them on the journey too, and if so how do you manage the pooey nappies in particular? (I'm not too worried about wet ones in a waterproof carrier I guess).

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Date: 2006-08-02 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squishsplash.livejournal.com
I missed her terribly. She didn't miss me at all. So I'm doing something right

So cruel but so true.

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Date: 2006-08-02 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggsybabes.livejournal.com
I can do most things 1 handed, even go to the loo, as both my children like / d to be carried most of the time.

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