Hi all just thought I'd throw in my 5 cents worth
on the sleeping in theday subject.
My first child refused to sleep during the day at
all, unless I was wearing her in a sling (or we were at a NMAA meeting when she
would make a liar of me and blissfully sleep in the capsule). When I became
Hello wise women!
Wanting a bit of advice if there's anyone who can
help...
I'm supporting a friend with breast feeding at the moment, and
starting to feel a bit out of my depth, even though I've been breastfeeing my
own boys for nearly 6 years now, never really had any problems that
I have to respectfully disagree, all the the more they sleep the more they
sleep advice to the contrary my daughter goes to sleep in record time the days
she skips her nap and is up 2 hours past her bedtime if we let her nap too long
or too late. It is sheer hell Every child is different, I
Tania Smallwood wrote:
Hello wise women!
Wanting a bit of advice if there's anyone who can
help...
Tania, I have two possible ideas...
1. She is engorged (not just full) in that breast and therefore milk is
trapped in there due to swelling. If this is the case, some cold
Hi, Tania,
You are doing a great job in supporting your
friend. And she's doing a great job continuing to breasfeed despite all
the hurdles that have been thrown in her way.
I think you are probably right that the pain of the
cracked nipple and then the stress of worrying about how much
Thankyou all so much for your wonderful advice, she continues to hand
express with little milk resulting. I've just organised an electric pump to
take off the stress of pumping by hand, and have had good advice and
reassurance from our lovely local ABA group leader.
One question, this woman
every child is different !!
I agree wholeheartedly with you here Jo. Lets remember this is why 'one size
fits all' advice so often makes mothers feel inadequate. Also, what works
for a while may not work another time - even for the same child. So much is
trial and error - and surrender!
I
Babies! They change so quickly just when we have in fact decided that sleep
promotes sleep (which at a certain ange and stage with certain babies it
does) then they go and change! It seems to always be a compromise between
our needs and their's. My 3 biological children stoped having sleeps
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Update: I tried Andrea Quanchi's advice and stripped his room down to
