It's a struggle but I breastfeed anyways

Pumping and Pineapple Fountain

Pumping on my cousins bachelorette trip… did I mention I also have mastitis on one side? Trip sponsored by antibiotics, pain killers, and instant ice packs

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Interacting with baby

Apart from talking, reading, tummy time, are you doing anything else with your 6-8 week olds? I feel like I'm not keeping baby stimulated enough in the short periods they're awake

Do you swear around your kids?

Not swear at, but occasionally use swear words in front of your children?

My daughter stomped her foot at a crow today and said “I’m so pissed off!” because the crow was trying to steal some of her picnic. She’s 3.

My head was in my hands. It’s my fault because when things go wrong, I sometimes say that, and she’s obviously picked up on it.

Bedtime

What’s everyone’s bedtime looking like currently? For a short while I was able to put baby down at 7pm awake and he’d get himself to sleep but now he’s hit 3 months he is always upset and I’ll have to rock him to sleep then attempt transfer (which fails lol) or stroke his face in cot until he falls asleep. Has anyone else hit a 3 month battle at all? X

Advice

How did you get your baby to stop waking for milk in the night

Feeling so defeated

I’m a first time mum to my beautiful 14 month old boy. I prayed for my son for so long. We struggled to conceive, so when I fell pregnant it was a shock, but we were filled with so much gratitude. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

But recently I find myself being super snappy. I catch myself telling him off when he does something he shouldn’t, and sometimes I feel so overwhelmed and touched out that it takes me to a really dark place, and that scares me. I worry he will grow up resenting me for those moments.

I suffered terribly with postpartum depression, and sometimes I worry I am being pulled back into something like that again.

My husband is emotionally useless, if I am honest. When I share how I am feeling, I am often made to feel ashamed or told to just “suck it up,” and it leaves me feeling very alone.

I feel like the worst mum sometimes, so unworthy. My son deserves a mother with endless patience, softness and presence, and I worry I am not always giving him that.

God blessed me with the most amazing bundle of joy, and I love him more than anything. But lately I keep asking myself, why do I feel like I am lacking the very things motherhood is supposed to come with so naturally?

Weaning at 6 months

I need to rant. I saw a new GP regarding many things, one of them being my child has CMPA. she told me that at 6 months he should be having THREE meals a day. Like surely not? Yes he has his milk on prescription but it’s an absolute minefield with weaning and food containing milk 🙄 I feel really disheartened but also annoyed, implying that the sooner he’s weaned the better in terms of prescribing his milk… just feel so frustrated 😣