My life is now being lived in 2-hour time slots. In what seems to be a fortnight-long (so far) growth spurt, Baby has started to demand feeds 2-hourly instead of 3-hourly. So that means that even if the boy is home and able to watch Baby while I go out to get my hair cut/visit my mother/shower, then I have approximately 1 hour, once I've fed her, before I have to get back for her next meal.
The alternative is to take her with me wherever I go, but that brings in different obstacles, like:
-trying to work the carseat-plus-wheels contraption, in public
-getting to grips with breastfeeding and nappy-changing in public
-being in my "mummy" role, including how I deal with a crying baby, in public
On the plus side, I'd have an excuse to dress Baby up in all those lovely girly clothes which friends have given her.
5 comments:
Have you thought about a breast pump? My wife used to use one so that she could go out and I'd have a bottle of good old fashed breast milk for bub if she got hungry!
It's about time you started her on McDonald's.
onscreen: bought myself one today in fact :-). It's pretty slow tho.
kazzer:all in good time, Kazzer, all in good time...
How many hours a day do you spend breastfeeding? The last breastfeeding mother I spoke to says it takes her 6 hours a day!!!
Editter: well, on average I feed Baby about 12 times in 24 hours and it takes between 20 mins and 45 mins each time - which averages out at approx. 30 mins. So that's about 6 hours! No wonder some of us get sore nipples...
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