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Dec 2022
11:11am, 2 Dec 2022
58,304 posts
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LindsD
ANd yes, every conversation starts with 'normal birth'? Errr... no
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Dec 2022
11:15am, 2 Dec 2022
38,580 posts
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halfpint
Apologies if the link has caused you any distress. Should have watched it before sharing. There are many push and pull factors for young people. It’s complex and there’s rarely one factor that trumps the rest.
I still have guilt about skin to skin contact as I had emergency c-section under general and QP was rushed to SCBU. The song Wires by Athlete still makes me weep -‘first night of your life curled up on your own’. Sob! He’s nearly 20.
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Dec 2022
12:06pm, 2 Dec 2022
6,998 posts
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Pothunter
The Breast Feeding Brigade are awful. D1 basically starved for 3 weeks while MrsPH struggled to breast feed. (Forceps delivery with 3rd degree tear and lots of blood loss didn’t help!) Once she moved to bottle she improved rapidly.
D2 was born at 36 weeks and went straight on the bottle. Her sucking reflex was poor and the nurses advised bottle which we leapt at.
In hindsight we joked that you are looked down on more for bottle feeding than if you gave your baby a coke!
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Dec 2022
12:32pm, 2 Dec 2022
27,212 posts
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Serendippily
Ha yes PH. All my sisters were quite evangelical about it too
Don’t worry HP it’s all so distressing and it does help me to try and put a structure around it. Teen had useful conversation on emotional baggage yesterday, poor MrS gets it in neck for getting cancer too
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Dec 2022
2:25pm, 2 Dec 2022
19,753 posts
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Chrisull
The twins, one was breastfed, one was bottlefed (by and large). The one who was breastfed is the one who has just mooted that perhaps when he goes to uni, he lives at home...
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Dec 2022
3:32pm, 2 Dec 2022
15,649 posts
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IT GRANNY 🇮🇸
Oh, well I had PND with no. 2 which no doubt scarred them both permanently. Glad I am not being left out of the blame game.
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Dec 2022
3:51pm, 2 Dec 2022
38,582 posts
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halfpint
My mum had PND with me which was probably less significant than her lack of attunement and emotional literacy more generally.
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Dec 2022
4:03pm, 2 Dec 2022
11,436 posts
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PaulaMc
I struggled to breastfeed Daughter and the hospital sent her for sweat tests for cystic fibrosis (negative). In desperation I had to bottle feed her and felt a terrible failure - like Dipps I was surrounded by literature and posters and midwives telling me it was vital. Fortunately I had a down to earth aunt living nearby who helped me see sense.
When Daughter had T earlier this year and also struggled to feed the midwife almost immediately diagnosed tongue tie. She then checked Daughter’s tongue, saying it’s usually hereditary, and lo and behold she’s the same. If only we’d known, it would have saved months of effort and heartache.
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Dec 2022
4:19pm, 2 Dec 2022
38,584 posts
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halfpint
The whole breast is best thing needs a revamp.
Breast is best unless…
…baby is tongue tied
…mum isn’t producing enough milk
… baby is in neonatal and Mum can’t physically get there to feed baby (yip that was me)
….your baby is premature and can’t breast feed
…..
Oh wait how about ‘a healthy baby (and Mum) is best’.
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Dec 2022
7:25pm, 2 Dec 2022
46,817 posts
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DocM
Can some explain the cat pictures to me ?
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Assisting teens in choosing university for 2021 during a pandemic
Nov 2020
