Soooooo with that. Hell I have never "slept through" the night either

Pfft, I've slept through the week Student living... bliss. Ahaha.

Lol I love thus thread! I am always being bombarded with 'miracle cures' to help my lo! He is a lovely chunky baby who feeds regularly & for long periods and yes I do get exhausted at night and wish he would sleep longer but I know it's what he needs so I will do it! I am always being told that he needs baby rice or ff as he is obviously a 'hungry baby, look @ the size of him!' ...... But the truth is he is a healthy happy chubby baby as a result if my wonderful boobie milk and I feel so proud when people say he is such a contented baby. And when I take him to b weighed I get such a sense of achievement to think that I have provided for him and he has grown!
I have a bedside cot and I am fed up of being asked if he is still in our room.... 'yes he is still in my room because I am following the guidelines to prevent cot death!' and sometimes he EVEN sleeps in with me... Shock horror!!! Lol

I do agree that whatever u do u will have people saying u should do the opposite, but all I think is that they r well meaning and only trying to help!

just stumbled across this post... I thought it was just me who got asked this question...

I decided to breastfeed my baby after going to antenatal classes with my hubby. He was the one who actually said to me 'I'd like you to give it a try for all the benefits but its entirely up to you if you want to or not, I'll support you with whatever you decide to do'....

The first few days were awful in hospital, my baby wouldn't latch on & I had a very forceful midwife who kept trying to push him onto me... I wasn't sleeping very well as all the other babies were very noisy but my little man slept most of the time and even when he was awake he didn't cry... I was a little concerned lol

While in hospital one of the nice midwives took my son & gave him a bottle of SMA to top him up as he was only taking a little of me when he did take of me.

So when I got home from the hospital I decided to give it another go.... and wala... he took to it straight away & fed for an hour! I think it was just because I was more relaxed in my own home and I had got a bit of sleep.

So anyway... getting to the point lol... We were at my hubbys parents house for dinner and his mum asked how long I intended on breastfeeding... I told her I didn't know as it wasn't something I had throught about... originally when I was pregnant (before attending antenatal classes) I was going to bottle feed so hadn't given it too much though, I just told her I'd see how it went.

A couple of weeks later my FIL said to my hubby 'Who do you trust more, your mum or a midwife?' to which my hubby replied... 'mum of course'.... his father then said 'well get him on bottles... you don't know how much he is getting when he's breastfeed'... When my hubby told me this I was raging! so was he, he had to walk out of the house before he said something he would regret...

Then there was my mother... who I love dearly and would never say a bad word against her... but she kept saying to my baby.... 'oh if your mummy would just give you a bottle I could feed you'.... thanks for the support mum!!

Even one of my good friends said to me when he was about 5 weeks old 'oh you've given him a good start, you should just get him onto bottles now'...

Oh and everyone kept saying everytime he cried 'oh that baby is hungry'... it wouldn't be that he would mabye have wind, a dirty nappy or just wanted a cuddle??

F right off!!!

I'm currently combine feeding, I breastfeed first thing in the morning and last thing at night... then I give him bottles of formula during the day as advised by my health visitor to give me a break and slowing wean him of the breast... he has no problems with either a bottle or the breast, he always knows what is what lol

I love being able to lift him out of his moses basket in the morning, change him then just feed him straight away without having to get a bottle ready... then usually he goes back to sleep and it gives me a chance to get his bottle ready for his lunch feed.

Thats my rant over lol

Brilliant thread and some great comebacks I can use if I get confronted with the same question in later months. I'm thinking of baby lead weaning, so imagine the horrified comments when I say my LO wont get baby rice at all

Umm, yeah, when his size is actually an indicator that he is doing VERY WELL on your milk, and why fix something that ain't broke?!

You could offer to lend her your breast pump to get her own milk flowing, if she is that keen. ROFL!

I will not even comment on your FIL

I know what you mean, I so wanted to bf and had a 2 week struggle before getting it right so after all that hard work why would I want to stop? Its good for baby isnt it?
I am a babyrice user though *don't hurt me* I give lo baby rice as cereal in the monring not ever in a bottle - my mil gave dh cereal in a bottle when he was 6 weeks old - she told us this over skype a few months back, i think I almsost died of shock but just calmly spoke and said we will not be doing that thank you.

I know what you mean, I so wanted to bf and had a 2 week struggle before getting it right so after all that hard work why would I want to stop? Its good for baby isnt it?
I am a babyrice user though *don't hurt me* I give lo baby rice as cereal in the monring not ever in a bottle - my mil gave dh cereal in a bottle when he was 6 weeks old - she told us this over skype a few months back, i think I almsost died of shock but just calmly spoke and said we will not be doing that thank you.

The best thing about it was that I did express & give my mum a bottle so she could feed my son, she still wasn't happy!!

So anyway, my son has just turned 3 months and is still enjoying the boob lol