Hadn't realised that you were doing the nightmare breastfeeding/bottle-feeding/expressing combo. I admit I tried that for a couple of days and quickly gave up as realised that I couldn't do it and stay sane, if that's any consolation. I even decided top-ups of formula were too much work so we just replaced first one feed and later two with a bottle of formula. Understand about the logistics of feeding in public - didn't have quite the same problem, but had a phase when Owen's feeding behaviour wasn't what I deemed publicly acceptable! Though I did persevere with doing it at baby groups to get me out of the house. Once they feed less frequently, it does get easier in terms of getting out and about.
Whenever I put Owen on his changing mat, he now instantly rolls onto his front. I normally end up turning him over at least ten times per nappy change, though I'm gradually getting better at finding ways to keep him on his back both physically and via distraction. Thankfully the poo is easier to deal with now but we do have 2-3 dirty nappies a day as opposed to one every 2-3 days like we did before.
Just to warn you, when you get to that stage, the baby led weaning crowd tend to make a big deal about how easy it is compared with traditional weaning, but I'm not convinced. Both have their pros and cons and some babies also take it to it more easily than others. I'm definitely glad that we are doing blw but it has been hard work planning and preparing meals, though I'm more in the swing of it now, and I've been lucky in that Owen has no problems actually eating stuff and never gagged too much. He's also pretty tidy eating things like banana now.
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Date: 2011-06-24 05:50 pm (UTC)Whenever I put Owen on his changing mat, he now instantly rolls onto his front. I normally end up turning him over at least ten times per nappy change, though I'm gradually getting better at finding ways to keep him on his back both physically and via distraction. Thankfully the poo is easier to deal with now but we do have 2-3 dirty nappies a day as opposed to one every 2-3 days like we did before.
Just to warn you, when you get to that stage, the baby led weaning crowd tend to make a big deal about how easy it is compared with traditional weaning, but I'm not convinced. Both have their pros and cons and some babies also take it to it more easily than others. I'm definitely glad that we are doing blw but it has been hard work planning and preparing meals, though I'm more in the swing of it now, and I've been lucky in that Owen has no problems actually eating stuff and never gagged too much. He's also pretty tidy eating things like banana now.