My god she's actually such a weirdo. My kids a few months older than Ren n if anyone offers to take him off me for a bit I'm like cyaaa son, don't be back too soon
What has the HV said? I really canāt bare to watch any of her videos. Also what was the 20 mins eating / leaving the baby with spenny all about?I never intended to be more than a lurker on tattle and whenever I post I think this will probably be my last post nowā¦ and then Imo does something that riles me up so much!!! Today itās two things! Apologies in advance for a stupidly long post! Need to get it off my chest as my partner hates listening to me moan about people from the internet .
The breastfeeding post is just so damaging to women who, for whatever reason, canāt breastfeed or choose not to. I have inverted nipples and it has always been a huge pet peeve of mine seeing posts like that from women who act like their success at breastfeeding somehow makes them better mums who have closer bonds with their babies! It infuriates me!
Yes of course be proud of yourself for breastfeeding, it is an amazing thing but itās just another way for Imo to try and get the validation from her huns that she so desperately requires. She needs people on insta to tell her what a good mum she is. Thereās quite a bit more to being a good mum than whether or not your baby can successfully suck milk from your boobs Imo!
Like some others I had a horrendous birth,
Itās a long story with multiple elements that I wonāt go into but long story short it ended in a huge haemorrhage in which I lost 75% of my blood. I missed the āgolden hourā when my daughter was first born because I was unconscious while they stopped the bleeding and administered blood transfusions. It wasnāt an easy recovery after and that mixed in with the inverted nipples and having large boobs meant that the only way I could feed her was with a nipple shield in the rugby ball position which was really hard to do when I was on my own due to my c section scar.
We quickly went to combi feeding with formula, on the breast and expressing milk for her. By 4 weeks, actually feeding her from the boob was just getting too difficult, I couldnāt feed her out and about because of the position I needed to use to do so. I was lucky that by 6 weeks my milk supply had increased a lot and I was able to switch to exclusive pumping which Iām still doing 5 months down the line. Obviously Iām not comparing but if Imo thinks sheās faced challenges breast feeding, come have a chat with me about the challenges of pumping!
Not claiming breast feeding doesnāt have multiple challenges too of course (and even formula feeding) but would love to see her managing everything that goes along with exclusively pumping!
I hate pumping with a passion (I mean who would enjoy it) and it dictates my life at the moment. I feel like an actual dairy cow! Iām continuing until 6 months and genuinely I feel like there is a huge part of my need to carry on pumping that is down to the guilt and sadness I feel that my boobs werenāt the right kind to be able to feed my baby directly because if I had been able to Iād have liked to have given her breast milk until 1. My guilt and sadness in a big part comes from women like Imo who post tit like that!
Despite breast feeding not being a success, I did lots of skin to skin with my baby and donāt feel in any way, shape or form that I have less of a bond with my baby because of how I feed her!
Secondly the health visitor post!! God sheās a hypocritical narcissist! She can talk tit about people online but no one is allowed to call her out for her crappy behaviour! Again I just feel like itās bullshit! Maybe itās just because Iāve been super lucky with health visitors. But I just canāt imagine any professional saying the stuff that Imo is claiming! Better hope I never meet her HV if she did say that about percentiles as my baby is 91st percentile for height and 15th for weight, a total bean pole! My HV thinks itās genetic as she drinks plenty and is meeting milestones well. I feel like maybe the HV did mention the amount that Ren was being fed as more than 20 feeds a day just seems so excessive at this age. Although I never exclusively breast fed I do know other mums who are and even they arenāt feeding their babies that many times a day at half Renās age! Possibly said in correlation to Ren being on a higher weight percentile and in Imoās mind, with her unhealthy relationship regarding her own weight has twisted it all in her head! I donāt know, but it just doesnāt sound realistic!
I donāt think Iāve seen a nearly 1 year old that looks as grumpy all the time as Ren. I really hope sheās smilier off camera. I really find it so sad that Imo doesnāt take her to any baby groups or swimming lessons or music groups! There are so many options! I used to nanny in Brighton years ago and we were spoilt for choice for things to do! Thereās zero excuse, she has time to prat about in Primark and make god awful videos for other peopleās kids!
I also have inverted nipples and I wasnāt given any help or advice with BF and I was left gutted! But the bond me and my child has is unbreakable sheās just a narcissist twit!Im part of the inverted nipple crew too! Expressing is SUCH hard work I did the same for my daughter for 4 weeks you should be incredibly proud of yourself!
So Ren is with her dad but she feels guilty eating her dinner by herself (which she probably didn't eat). I see that as a luxury!Another #mumguilt post. She makes no sense.
She feels so guilty eating on her own when she should be upstairs with moo moos who is with Spennyā¦
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The normal checks are 10-14 days, 6-8 weeks, 9-12 months and then 2-2 and a half. I had the 9-12 month check at a health centre. You have to fill out a questionnaire of questions based on what your child is doing. Like standing up, picking things up / moving objects from one hand to another, crawling. Itās like ānot doing it yet, sometimes and all the timeā. Then theyāre added up and based on the score it gives the HV an idea of if theyāre reaching milestones etc. also we discussed my son reducing his feeds as he was approaching 1, how I should start to offer snacks instead of milk etc. The one at 2-2 and a half is to do with language / speech and whether they can give you support to get them ready for starting school if there is an issue. No doubt by the time sheās 2, Grimmo will be telling the HV how sheās done a course for phonics and she knows what to doi have no personal knowledge with this stuff so iām not sure what age HV visits are meant to stop and how often theyāre meant to be had, but do we think she exaggerated the way the HV spoke to her to use it as an excuse for not having anymore visits? i feel like sheāll come out and say that she knows sheās an āamazing motherā so she doesnāt want someone telling her what to do after that ānegative experienceā, and then all her huns will validate her and say that she knows best
No it is still there! š«She's deleted the meal video with the 'mum guilt' wonder why?!
I can still see it xShe's deleted the meal video with the 'mum guilt' wonder why?!
Yes that stage is tough!! I remember me and my partner taking it in turns to eat our dinner while the other held the baby! It felt like it would never end at the time but by 6-8 weeks it had. Then our little girl would happily sit in her bouncer and watch us eat dinner, she still does at 5 months.Sorry if someoneās already said this, I was half asleep when catching up lastnight but that dinner video from lastnight just highlights how much she still treats Ren like a newborn. I donāt miss that stage at all where you canāt have a hot cup of tea or meal because you constantly have to be holding or feeding the baby but at this age she should be able to put her down with her toys or a snack and go have something to eat knowing that Ren is perfectly fine without her. She has formed such an unhealthy attachment to that girl and it will massively hinder her independence later on in life. Like she literally said she knows sheās happy playing with Spence but still wants to be with her instead of eating wtf? How will she ever send that girl to school
In Imos world:What has the HV said? I really canāt bare to watch any of her videos. Also what was the 20 mins eating / leaving the baby with spenny all about?