You are talking my reality at the moment
my husband thinks I'm being grouchy but I feel like I can't enjoy breast feeding because I'm just so conscious of keeping him awake and how much he's sucking and then he gets to so that while I pump and it's exhausting. No, I recommend the momcozy v1, hospital grade but has cups so you can move around and it's a nice vibration suction
It does end, I swear! It's awful when you've been through labour and then you end up in that kind of schedule. I remember crying to a doctor that I'd been awake and hadn't had more than an hours sleep for nearly 5 days at one point (my labour took 1.5 days). They shrugged and walked out the room which wasn't hugely helpful.You are talking my reality at the moment
He then says he's exhausted which is completely valid but he's not the one waking in the middle of the night pumping and putting milk in the fridge. I hope its not for long
Thank you, you've no idea how much it means to me to hear you felt the same as I'm feeling very much on my own. I have never in my life been in a hospital for anything and now I haven't left it since Wednesday when I got induced
Biscuit Junior didn't go to nursery until the year before he started school. Then he managed 6 months before Covid shut it down. Because it was a small preschool in one of the local community centre buildings, they couldn't reopen at all, not even for key worker kids, so that was the extent of his nursery time. I brought this up as a worry when we had his first parent's evening in Reception, and his teacher said that she could not pick out from her class who had been to nursery from a few months old, and who had never been at all. She also said that you could tell which kids' parents had made the effort to support their development, and who hadn't.
Baby Biscuit is almost 15 months now, and for the majority of trips she's still facing me in the "big" pram. I like to be able to chat to her as we walk, and point things out to her, and I like to be able to see when she's fallen asleep. I also feel like she's a bit more sheltered from the weather and the exhaust fumes from the school run idiots who sit outside school for half an hour before kicking out time with their engines running. Also, she's always hungry
and I wouldn't feel safe at this age giving her a snack if I couldn't see her face.I feel ya!
). We were in for 10 days in total that time. It’s so awful being hospital and such a massive shock to the system. I’m so sorry for what’s happening, I was in for 5 days and although baba was ok (I had complications), it’s such a rubbish environment. I’m the same as you, never been in hospital in my life and suddenly there you are, it’s where you’re living without home comforts and you’re worried about your baby/your health. I had someone opposite me who was absolutely off her rocker, she had ten (not even exaggerating) family members visit, most of whom were asked to leave because they were so loud, then a few hours after her c section she ordered a Chinese and had a can of coke, then complained her stomach hurt and begged for pain relief, whilst constantly making up excuses to go out for a cigarette without actually saying it. Oh and her husband came at 10pm and put a football match on his phone.
I agree with you on the needing to have the option for someone to look after the baby for a night or two.I feel ya!
My birth story was a bit of a mess. I had some bleeding late January and spent a couple of days in hospital, which was miserable but left feeling hopeful that I wouldn't be back until at least early March (I was due mid March). My waters then broke 8 days later and I landed back in triage, and they decided as I was nearly full term at 36 weeks and 5 days to induce me. Took a while to get him out and ended up in theatre which was completely the opposite of what I wanted. I'd been woken up at 2am to go to the labour ward a day and a half before he arrived so wasn't labouring off a nights rest either (though probably that's true for most of us
I know it's probably better for the baby and bonding if they're given to us straight away and we have to look after them immediately, but I can't help but think perhaps there needs to be some leeway with having someone professional take care of them for just the first night or two so new parents can actually sleep and regain some energy.
It does get easier, then next thing you know you're chasing your slightly feral child around a sensory play wondering what to get him for his first birthday... And until it does we're here!
The Elvie Stride is hands free and hospital grade. It’s so hard BFing and pumping when they are tiny. Hope you’re all doing ok x
I get it, but as a mum to a NICU baby (as I know a lot of others on here are) who was whisked away and then had to spend those nights alone in hospital, I would have done anything to be able to look after her and even hold her overnight the first few nights. You’re lucky you were able to do that
I think you are taking their comment way out of context and as for someone who never posts on this thread, I don’t know why you’re all of a sudden piping up now? I’m sure what the OP said never had the intentions of offending anyone. Everyone’s birth experience is different and adjustment post partum is different, she never said anything with malice.
Used to post here regularly and still follow. You aren’t supposed to police threads FYI.
