I’ve started reading it after someone on here mentioned it, I sound like I have a lot of time to read after mentioning the Pregnant but Screwed one but they’re all library books for the night feedsI love this. I get that contact naps aren’t always practical but I’ll bloody miss them when she refuses to cuddle me
Has anyone read the Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read? I’ve just started it today and it is brilliant. My parents always make a big deal about the fact that they put me in my own room at two days old and tbh it makes me pretty sad to think of me as a baby alone in a cot in the dark
I read loads... But only during the bedtime and night feeds (and occasionally daytime feeds if toddler is at nursery and I've remembered to bring my Kindle downstairs) - you spend a lot of time trapped under a baby! I didn't have a Kindle when I had my eldest and a backlit Kindle is such a gamechanger for my mental state selling night feeds especially, now it's almost like me time!I’ve started reading it after someone on here mentioned it, I sound like I have a lot of time to read after mentioning the Pregnant but Screwed one but they’re all library books for the night feeds
I read that book when baby cucumber was a few days old and it really helped me in a dark place. It also made me make some decisions about my parenting that I hope I'm able to stick by. I think I'll revisit it again when he's a little older.I love this. I get that contact naps aren’t always practical but I’ll bloody miss them when she refuses to cuddle me
Has anyone read the Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read? I’ve just started it today and it is brilliant. My parents always make a big deal about the fact that they put me in my own room at two days old and tbh it makes me pretty sad to think of me as a baby alone in a cot in the dark
i think you have hit the nail on the head there!Honestly I think people will always say it. Tommy is nearly 6 months and I still hear it, it's worse now actually because now it's just morphed into "it won't ever get better!". You cannot spoil a baby and you most certainly cannot give them too much love of all things! Honestly I think people just say it to justify it to themselves that they didn't give their babies the amount of comfort they required and they feel guilty. Easier to just say other people are soft than admit you were a bit hard!
Kindle all the way, paperbacks are too hard! I think also it just takes a bit of practice and you need to be feeling confident with feeding and past the stage where you're checking the latch all the time and you know it's well established etc.Here’s a really stupid questionhow are y’all reading during breastfeeding? Kindles or paperbacks? I’d love to read during breastfeeding but can’t seem to figure out how to hold baby & a book. Granted, I’ve only been doing this for barely 3 weeks so.
I tried listening to an audiobook last night and might stick with that until I get a handle on flailing arms and holding her.
Id like to keep up with my Tattle book club books, even though I’m still 60 pages into july’s book
Library app on my phone, I love my paperbacks but I feed next to my partner and he’d kill me if I had a light on to read at 3am then I’d be the knobwaffleHere’s a really stupid questionhow are y’all reading during breastfeeding? Kindles or paperbacks? I’d love to read during breastfeeding but can’t seem to figure out how to hold baby & a book. Granted, I’ve only been doing this for barely 3 weeks so.
I tried listening to an audiobook last night and might stick with that until I get a handle on flailing arms and holding her.
Id like to keep up with my Tattle book club books, even though I’m still 60 pages into july’s book
The rates of millennial anxiety and depression would say otherwisei think you have hit the nail on the head there!
I don’t get it too often but when I do it’s from older people. My mum almost gets all offended and huffy when I explain that things are done differently now. I have tried to say that they weren’t doing anything wrong at the time but things have moved on and more research has been done to show a better approach. She just huffs and says well it never did you any harm.
Ah yes… my mum uses that one too. I mean, I have absolutely no memories of my mum until I was 12 but go off Susan tell me I’m finei think you have hit the nail on the head there!
I don’t get it too often but when I do it’s from older people. My mum almost gets all offended and huffy when I explain that things are done differently now. I have tried to say that they weren’t doing anything wrong at the time but things have moved on and more research has been done to show a better approach. She just huffs and says well it never did you any harm.
Yup!The rates of millennial anxiety and depression would say otherwise
Yes! It's so frustrating! Also clothes sizing, there is no real difference in the size of a 3 year old boy vs girl for example (I mean officially, when you look at the charts in a red book and things), differences don't kick in until they are much older and yet girls clothes are cut smaller, skimpier and generally less suitable for vigorous play, it's infuriating.You know what I'm sick of?
Pink tax.
Things costing more because they're marketed for girls or women.
A pack of three boys baby grows £6. Unisex £7. Girls? £9+
Boys megablocks £13. Girls megablocks £20 just because they're pink.
like who do I complain too, its too many individual complaints. I'm really sick of it.
I dont believe in all the blue for boys pink for girls shite. The twins have many items of clothes from the boys section, but what pisses me off is that because it's marketed toward the female market its okay to have a higher profit margin? No. Not today. I've just spent a fortune on new vests in Tescos because all the boys and unisex ones were sold out and with twins andI don't have the time nor paitentce to get rid of the stains nor have I got endless hours to spend on my washing mountainbasket.
That's my rant of the day. I'm off to see where I complain to one singular person rather than a bunch of fools.
I can understand trying to teach teenagers to be more independent so that they can survive in the world but doing that to a young baby is bloody awful!One mum at baby group constantly goes on about how she leaves her baby to cry unless she’s hungry because ‘she needs to learn some independence because I won’t always be there’
Bear in mind their baby is 2 weeks older than baby o. I initially thought she meant just at night but it’s in the day too. Poor kid is trying to crawl and will get frustrated/overwhelmed/overstimulated or just a bit grumpy like babies too and this mum will leave her lying on the floor crying while she carries on chatting like ‘oh don’t mind her, just being a drama queen as per’I can understand trying to teach teenagers to be more independent so that they can survive in the world but doing that to a young baby is bloody awful!
They really are so young and little for such a short period of time, I can’t understand not wanting to nurture your child.
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