I know there is a section for this in the welcome to BnB section but i thought as we have a few regulars and people joining us all the time we should have our own little getting to know you thread???? so i will start us off...

My Name is Sara i have a little girl who is just over 5 months now (was born june17th 2009) i am engaged to Daisy's daddy Rob who is also on BnB but isnt on here as much as me !!! (bobbert)

We have been cloth bummed since daisy was about 3 weeks old and we also Baby Wear i currently have a Moby which i love and i have just sold my Baby Hawk as i'm looking for a new more girly one!!LOL i combine BF and FF for various reasons but mostly because of my nasty PND and Daisy losing weight we plan on BLW in a few weeks when Daisy reaches 6 months

others in our family include 4 dogs - 2 Labs Chloe and Toby and 2 yorkies - Tiah and her granddaughter Lucy we have 2 rabbits Genie and Eve and one gorgeous horsey Kyte. i am currently looking into keeping some chickens for eggs and i am going to be producing our own fruit n veg next year for Daisy


erm think thats all really

Sara

xxxxxxx

Ooh good idea Sara!

I am Kirsten, 24 years old, have been married to Jake for just over 2 years. We have a daughter Freya who was born 10th May so will be 6 months in a few days .

Freya has been in cloth nappies since she was about 2 weeks old, but we only started going overnight in them when she was about 3 months ish. I looooove using cloth nappies and so does Jake, we were both cloth bums when we were babies, my mum thought she was well cool and dyed all her terries bright colours, lol.

I like to wear Freya as much as I can, I have a Simply Mei Tai and a Maya Wrap ring sling and love them both. I have tried a few different slings and these are my best yet!

I reluctantly formula feed due to medical problems after Freya was born, I am attempting relactation at the moment but finding it hard whilst looking after Freya too. We will be starting BLW in a few weeks, Freya has had a few goes at playing with veggies but has not seemed bothered, so I think it will be past 6 months when we actually get going! I can't wait 'til sh eis eating our food as a lot of my family and friends are very sceptical of BLW and don't think it's a good idea! We will show them!

We will be using gentle discipline with Freya and any subsequent children we have. I would love to homeschool Freya but have more research to do on it before I decide if I will or not. I would also love for her to go to a Montessori school, as I did when I was young. This depends on whether we can afford it or not though.

We have a cat, Ellie, and three chickens, Bellatrix, Narcissa and Bruce. I want to get a dog and horses again but we will have to move to a bigger house first . I grow my own veg in the garden and I'm on the waiting list for an alloment. We have a few fruit trees and one of the first things Freya tried was an apple from our garden .

Good idea

I'm Beth, 23yrs old and live in Texas. I have 3 little boys, Landon who is 6 1/2, Casen is 4 1/2 and Hayden who is 25mo. I'm a stay at home mom to them. We "practice" AP parenting in many ways.

I cloth diapered Hayden from 2mo, that's when we started, went full time at 4mo then until 21mo then we were battling rash after rash, one that just would NOT go away so we switched back to sposies and it cleared up But now a few months later we are doing some cloth and some sposies to see how he reacts. He will be potty training soon though.

I also babywear, I have tried out a few different carriers but by far my favorite is our Babyhawk. We still use it now with Hayden

I also breastfed all 3 boys. Unfortunately it didn't work out with Landon and he only was able to nurse maybe about a month then was full time formula. Casen nursed exclusively until I did introduce some formula at 7mo then at 11mo he weaned. Hayden nursed exclusively until he self weaned at 19mo

We also cosleep, use gentle discipline, we don't vaccinate, we also practice extended rear facing...I only put that in here because it's not the norm.

Hi i'm Donna, wife to Jon and mom to Beth 16, Joe 14, Jay 12, Deon 11, Shannon 10, Scott 8, Karlum 5, Jack 3 and Harley 9 months tomorrow.
I have used cd from beth all the way to Harley but where as it was terrys with all the others i am now addicted to all but terrys haha, i so blame this site for my addiction
I have breast feed all my tribe until self weaning and mr h as everyone knows him by is still bf, he is exclusively bf and only takes from me he refuses sippy cups etc so it is me only, we co-sleep and i wear him as much as possible i have a ring sling, a kids kangeroo sling and i have just made a mei tai and i'm making my second one now, and i hope to start selling them very soon.
We are following blw and it is going brilliantly, messy but brilliantly and he eats everything.
We followed an alternative route with vaccinations and will continue to do so.
We have 2 dogs sam and spot, a guinnie pig called pepper, and a parrot called michael.
We follow attachment parenting as closely as we can and mr h is now our velcro baby haha he loves been in our arms or in his slings.
mmmmmmmmm what else o yes mr h has spina bifida occulut which in his case has left him with a lower body weakness and a right hand side partial weakness but he is finding his own way around things and is just an adorable lil man

Hi!! I'm Stephanie! I'm 29, currently live in Greenwood, Indiana. Married to my wonderful husband for 11 years now. I have one son, Cohen 4yrs and our newest addition, Emmalyn 3 months. My husband is currently serving a tour of duty in Iraq. He began training last September, popped home for Thanksgiving, knocked me up and took off for Iraq. Lol. He'll hopefully be home in time for Christmas and we are so excited to be a little family again.

I formula feed my daughter as breastfeeding turned out to be a huge challenge for me with postpartum depression and no family around. I initially felt guilty, but I've come to terms with it. I've discussed relactation with my doctor, but I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. She has severe reflux and needs a thickened feed and I'm not sure that I could make pumping and thickening work for her. Suggestions welcome on that!!

I do use cloth diapers exclusively and have since birth. I absolutely LOVE it. I'm really trying a different, more natural approach to parenting this time and it's working out so much better for me. I'm a happier mommy with happier children. I worked full time when I had my son, but now I'm able to stay home and it's wonderful!!

I have suffered multiple miscarriages over the years and I'm so blessed to have my beautiful children. I would love one more, but my husband is not yet convinced. I was terrified myself until I realized I've raised these two on my own for the last 3 months and I'm still alive! I think I could handle 3..... Right?

Love learning about all of you!!

Ok well i'm 21 and i'm engaged to Robin and we're getting married in June My little girl is called Tabitha and she's just over 1 now...
I tried to use cloth when she was born but i didnt like them not thinking that i could try other types
Then i went to a baby show in Glasgow and saw bumgenius nappies and i loved them soooo much and she's been wearing them ever since

I BF her, she wont drink formula or drink at all from a bottle It took ages to get her to drink from a sippy cup she would only drink from a doidy cup

I used to co-sleep with her until she decided she didnt want me anymore ha ha ha! She is really quite independant which is nice but sad also.

We live on a farm where we have free range Turkey's Chickens Guinea fowel and Geese at the moment..its so nice to know that all the meat we eat is kept nicely and happy Also we only eat meat from the farmers market where we know all the farmers...
Uhmm...we have about 13 horses 1 who is our broodmare who has one foal at the moment, a nanny horse who looks after the foals when we wean them and we have about 5 eventers and the others are older horses that we keep in the fields cos we love them so much he he he! Also we have 6dogs and 3 pet ducks though the fox keeps getting them We used to have 50 a few years ago as they lay eggs for us...

Think thats everything

Oh also my OH obviously is a farmer i WAS doing law at uni though i now have decided to do a midwifery course and i run a baby group and am on the under 5s committee and i'm going to do a BF course to help other mums..

Phew....

I'm Holly, I'm 27. Married to Andy for 5 years and together for 10, he's sometimes found on here posting as Phoenix. We have one little boy, Jack, born in March.

I'm into natural childbirth, breastfeeding, cloth nappies, baby wearing, baby led weaning and bed sharing. I love my Bum Genius nappies and am currently in the market for a mei tai or other carrier as I have fallen out with my BabaSling! We started BLW when Jack was 6 months and it's brilliant, so easy and so far Jack has eaten everything we have offered him. I'm a really fussy eater so it was important to me that Jack not be held back by me, so he gets lots of variety along with DH, which is also making DH happy! We buy cruelty-free, organic and fair trade wherever possible. We also selectively vaccinate and tbh next time we'll probably be even more selective and also give the vit K a miss.

Hi I'm claire 26 married to Joe for 19 months but together for 9 years. Mummy to Jack 8 months.

Jack has been in cloth fulltime since 14 weeks and we mainly use fitteds, With home made PUL/fleece wraps.

I work full time so baby wear as much as possible when not at work. My favorite is the babyhawk although we use the hotsling too.

I BF for a few weeks but found it very hard and switched to formula. I felt very guilty about this and attempted relactation for 7 LONG weeks. Although I never got my milk back I did increase my bond with Jack and got closure on the subject. I will BF next time thou (now I have you lovely ladies for support)

We are BLW'd and I have yet to find a food that Jack wont eat. It really is amazing to watch him took into a sunday roast with no teeth.

We grow some of our veg although this year the catapillars got more than us.

We have a Jack Russell called Narla that is more trouble than Jack and loves harassing our rabbit Guiness

Hiya! I'm Laura, 21 and I live with my fiance Rick and my beautiful little princess Olivia Rose. Olivia was a surprise baby, but now we have her we can't minagine life without her! She made us move back home uuuppp norf from our expensive cardboard box in London and we are much happier back here.

I have been a full time cloth bum mum for about 3 months now! Started on and off when she was around 2 months with some bamboozles which I hated, and then the addiction started!!! I haven't really spent tooooo much money on my cloth because I love a bargain, and preloved nappies...but I spend far too much time oggling fluff on t'interweb! I think using cloth was a natural progression for us really, because both OH and I are obsessed with recycling and are really proud when we put out a wee small bag of actual landfill rubbish each week...the rest all goes into one of the recycle bins. We both nearly cried when we had literally trippled the amount of rubbish we put out on bin day when she was newborn and in disposables

I have been blessed to have been able to breastfeed Olivia, and I'm so lucky that she took to it so well, and I had such amazing support from my OH and the bf helpers at the hospital. Olivia has decided that she won't even take a bottle of EBM, which is fine by me...I get to use it as an excuse not to leave her!! We follow a lot of the principles of attachment parenting, but have adapted it using Olivias lead. She hates co-sleeping, and much prefers her big girls cot to stretch out in and wriggle to he hearts content, but she is still directly next to my bed in our room. I love to wear Olivia, and she is rapidly quickly outgrowing her bjorn...so it's going to be new sling time very soon!!

I'm very excited about starting BLW with her in the next few weeks when she hits the 6 month mark! I'm also thinking of getting my name on the list for an allotment as we have a shared garden and I can't dig it all up to plant furit and veg

Hello i am Sara and i will be 31 on 16th Nov. Currently i am overdue as baby due on 8th Nov so i am being grumpy as i am suffering from SPD and i really want to meet my baby.

Been with OH for 9 years not yet married as was getting married this year but i got pregnant.

We have 2 gorgeous rescue lurchers Diggery and Leo and 3 black cats Fat Sid, Spudulika and Shep.

I am really wanting to breast feed and i have a big stash of cloth nappies which my dad bought as his first grandad gift.

I will be baby wearing as i have a closer wrap and mei tei carrier but i also have an all terrain pram.

I am not a veggie but i only eat free range meat and tbh alot of it comes from my dad at the minute i have the worlds biggest trout in my freezer!

I forgot to add i am addicted to knitting and crochet and have been making loads of stuff for the baby too