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.
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!
ReplyDeleteIt's about time you started her on McDonald's.
ReplyDeleteonscreen: bought myself one today in fact :-). It's pretty slow tho.
ReplyDeletekazzer: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!!!
ReplyDeleteEditter: 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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