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I am pregnant with my 3rd child and only managed to breastfeed my last 2 for a few days - mainly down to a lack of knowledge and support.
I have joined this forum during pregnancy to get as much advice and support as possible so I can give breast feeding a proper go this time - and i've learnt so much already, and understand why I struggled so much previously.
Thankyou to you all - I know I will get through it this time with the support from all of you!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1257327/Should-mother-breastfeed-child-A-new-book-tells-stories-women-did-just-that.html

I'm just curious really as to what everyone's little ones are like sleeping and feeding.

Kacie is either a reasonable sleper or a really rubbish sleeper, though she used to be better. She was sleeping 5-8 hours from about 4 weeks until the dreaded 4 month mark. Her downhill sleeping coincided with her 4month jabs and our going to stay at my parents without DH for the first time. She started only sleeping for 2 or 3 hours mostly, though often when she first goes to bed she sleeps upto 5 hours, sometimes 6, no good when it's 9pm-1am and I've only gone to bed at midnight

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When we got home today, Ellie decided to go through the cool bag to see what was in it. There were Keira 2 daytime bottles of EBM which had about 1oz left in each, and she asked to drink from one. I initially said No I didn't think it would be any good but then decided to give the later one a sniff and it smelt fine so I opened the bottle and offered it to her. She drank it, said it was Yummy and much nicer than her milk.

I just hope she doesn't start to expect it as a regular thing I wouldn't be able to express enough for her as well.

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Has anyone heard this? I think the talk starts 2 hours in. Morgan Gallagher is on 2hr 6mins in and Patti Rundall from Baby Milk Action is on at 2hr 47m (you can fast forward it lol)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p006jk41/Jonathan_VernonSmith_26_02_2010/

My friend had a baby a few days ago. The midwife has just been out and said she has lost weight so she needs to top up with formula after every feed.

I told her that that is probably the worst thing to do as it means baby won't demand as much so her supply won't come up. I told her it's normal for breastfed babies to loose a little in the first week as it just means the milk hasn't come in yet, but the best thing to do is to keep baby to the brest, not to supplement.

Well then her OH came on MSN and said:

Natasha
25/02/2...

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I have just re-read a copy of Practical Parenting that Dave bought for me when I was just pregnant (Feb issue).
I am like

there are 13 full pages dedicated to advertising and promotions of formula and bottles.
Their free gift for taking out a subscription is a steriliser and bottles.

There is one article on breastfeeding with a pump comparison, and one other mention to breastfeeding on the 'problem page'.

I really had to scour the mag to find ANY reference to breastfeeding, yet every other page had...

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