Recent content by Countrybumpkin

I think it would be worth having a chat with the HV if you have one that you can relate to. I am lucky as Ellie really is happy with just milk at 5 months and i will wait until she is 6 months old. One the other hand she is solely on formular now, not that i am wanting to encourage you to do...

Lovely to hear how all your babies are doing. Ellie was born on the 15th, she is a tiny little thing, not sure how much she weights as we haven't been for a few weeks, but was following her line nicely, last time. I am only 5'2", so think she will be little like her Mummy. We haven't long...

Medela Swing is fantastic. I ended up exclusively pumping for 12 weeks, and would have never been able to do it without this faithfull. I did loads of searching before deciding on it. Don't go for the model below, which i believe is about £50 ish, as it is very load, does the job, but you can...

Only last week was i thinking it was 12 months ago since i found out i was about 3 weeks pregnant and now my little girl is 4 months old. I just love being a Mummy.

I use to express a good couple more ozs out of one boob compared to the other. I also found that i expressd from one boob, went to the other and then I would go back to first boob, followed by the other again helped a little.

My HV adviced the same. First milk is for up too 1 year old, then they are ok to have cows milk. Just a marketing thing and to take no notice of it.

When expressing, even if your boob seems empty keep expressing for a good few minutes, five if possible, this then sends signals to carry on producing more milk. Give it at least 48 hours and you should start to see a difference in your milk supply. Once you have expressed one boob, go to the...

HV told us to use stage 1 until they are 12 months then to move on to cows milk.

I do the same, warm water for about 10 mins seems to do the trick.

Thanks all for all your replies. When i have a low moment it does help just to read back through the replies to remind myself how well i have done to give Ellie the best start. We are now on 2/3 feeds formulars a day and the rest my milk. I am now only doing two expresses a day, so it will only...

Same as Zazu. Always feel guilty snuggling under duvet but sheis happy and warm enough.

I am posted 10 weeks and still got a horrid bad back. Sorry

HV said three weeks, but warned me the sperm could live up to a week so from 2 weeks.

I have been solely expressing, i reached 10 weeks and completely exhausted physically and mentally if you want me to be honest. Just slowly introducing FF and dropping an express or two, but that is painful, and it just seems to take longer as at mo still producng same ammount of milk. (this...

If you do go down Medela road, go for the swing, the model down, is way to noisey, that you can't even think let alone hear any thing. Plus the swing acts very simular to how a baby would feed, with a milk let down button. Goggle and you will know what i mean.