Happy World Breastfeeding Week 🫶🏾

A fed baby is a happy baby! Even if you are not currently breastfeeding, you can say you did it! It is no easy task and as I am approaching 6 months on my breastfeeding journey, I have learned a lot of things about my baby through my body. It is truly a magical blessing and I am BLESSED to be able to give her this gift 💛

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I’m only 7 weeks in, but I absolutely love it. Yes cracked nipples when the mature milk came in hurt (like worst pain ever besides birth) but now I love the bond and time I get with baby. There is nothing like it 🥰

Two months 🥰

3months and no backing out. Liquid gold

2 years 7 months and there’s no end in sight! It’s one of the few things I’m really proud of.

I managed 14 months with my girl but dried due to being pregnant
I'm happy I got to even a year

Hit the 1 year bench mark, hoping for 1 more! BF alone is a full time job. Making bottles, cleaning bottles, pumping, hydrating to keep up supply, mental space of 'when did he nurse last' or 'when did I empty last'?, keep a stash, etc.

15 months and still going strong I'm very proud of myself and all of you mamas

I got told repeatedly "you'll give up" or "just give him a bottle" while pregnant and when my son was new born by people glad I stuck to my guns and have given him this amazing gift

Currently going on 2 years August 23rd now I need help with weening 😭😭😭 my goal was a year

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Ebf bottle refusal

I want to introduce a bottle so my partner and mum can feed baby every so often but she hates it! Have tried breast milk and formula and am using mam bottles. She also isn’t a fan of dummies. Goal is to give her formula as I hate pumping!

bottle

anybody else’s 4 month old hold their bottle?

First time using Milton cold water sterliser…

When the 15 mins is up do you just take them out and put them straight back together?
I know it says you can leave them in the solution until use but I don’t want to do that as I have 8 bottles to sterilise and can only fit some at a time.
I have mam bottles but my microwave isn’t tall enough to fit the bigger ones in it to sterilise them🤣 didn’t have this issue with my son as previous microwave was taller🤣

Nursery settle sessions

Anyone started their settle in sessions? Was our second session today scheduled for two hours. Dropped my boy and returned after after 1 hour 45 minutes. The nursery worker, bless her, was rocking him to sleep. They said the baby was crying for 1.5 hours. Not gonna lie that worries me a lot! How are your little ones doing? Have they settled smoothly? FTM here and a very anxious one

Ready mixed formula

Best ready mixed formula for an EBF 6 months old bubba. We are going on holiday and mamma needs a drink 💃🏼

Also the difference between first and infant milk?

Nap routines

Do you guys have a strict nap routine? Up to this point I’ve been following babies cues more than anything but today he had a really long third nap so I’m currently having to try to stretch the last wake window until bedtime (last time I offered a short catnap and woke him up, her was absolutely furious and bedtime was a nightmare 😬)

He’s normally up around 6am (awake a bit earlier but I wait until he’s fussing just incase he settles), was on an average of 4 naps and bedtime at 7pm.

Today he woke from his nap at 3:20pm and I don’t think I can delay bedtime any later than 6:30 🫣

Just wondering if a stricter routine would help maybe 🤷🏼‍♀️