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Thanks everyone! I feel much more confident now. :D I'm only going to Spain, but I wouldn't like to postpone it any more. Baby's grandparents live over there and are not well enough to travel. Although they are not putting any pressure on us, I know they are anxious to meet her. Another two...

Thanks feenix! That's very encouraning. I'm a bit worried about viruses and flu with so many people crammed in airpots/planes, that sort of stuff Anybody else with a positive experience or even just worried about that kind of thing??

I'd like to take my baby on a 2-3 hour flight pretty soon, but I asked the health visitor and she said they recommend waiting until they've had the whole lot of jabs (that's around 4 months) but by then my leave will be over. Baby's 9 weeks now. I was wondering, what's the earliest anybody has...

Thanks a lot, everyone! That makes a lot of sense, Valentine. Because of the initial hospital advice of not letting her go longer than 4 hours without eating or she'll vanish into nothingness (or something scary like that anyway :roll:), we are a bit over-regimented. I often find myself trying...

Thanks again! :D I think I just lack the confidence to say pants to the formula all of a sudden, but I'll try to wean her gradually. Just a really stupid question- what does "every two hours" mean exactly? I mean if we start feeding at 12 and she's still sucking away at the boob at 1, sholud...

Thanks everybody for your invaluable advice! And Happy New Year, BTW. I feel terrible now. I think LO had a growth spurt for the last couple of days and I didn't realise :oops:. She's been much quieter today and more settled. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm getting all sorts of...

Hello all, :wave: Baby is now 4 weeks old and we've had a tough time with the old breastfeeding. In a nutshell, she had low birth weight and lost over the expected 10%. The result was the midwives insisting she got formula top-ups amid fears of me having a poor supply. And me being terrified...

Thanks all! That's exactly what I wanted to hear :wink: Star, Hennaly - that's what I've been thinking about hospital pools all along myself :lol: Valentine - good point about the hotels! That should shut him up :lol: My midwife literally just left (came home for "risk assessment" today...

Hello :wave: A quick question for all those who've had a water labour/birth or are planning to - would you consider a 2nd hand pool or would you rather go for a new one? My midwife said a lady who just had a water birth has one for sale. I was going to snap it up until I told my OH. Now he's...

I thought I'd update you all on this, in case it comes handy for someone else - I spoke both to my M/W and to the one who teaches the aqua-natal classs. They both said that swimming after loosing part of your plug is fine (so long as baby is still moving and you haven't had any other symptoms...

Thanks, girls! I'll see if anybody else knows and I'll call the MW tomorrow if I need to. Bee, I am impressed you still felt like swimming after your waters broke :shock:. I'd just have been terrified to move :lol:

Hello everyone! :wave: I lost part of my plug last week at 35 weeks. No blood though, just a clear blob, but since then I've had a tiny very light-coloured discharge twice. I called the midwife but I forgot to ask, is it OK to carry on swimming? (I've got my aqua natal class tomorrow!) Also...

Moss, I am so jealous! :oops:. But very happy for you that you have a good chance of having the birth you want. I just can't see how they can justify the differences between areas. Scotslass, that's exactly what I've heard, that they are there but there's no jobs for them. But clearly...

That's just terrible! Call me naive, but this trend towards "patient choice" the NHS is supposed to offer is making me sooo mad :evil: It's all a lot of hot air when in practice not even the basics are covered. All I seem to hear since I got pregnant is: "in some areas they do this and...

Thank you so much for your reply, Sherlock! My hospital is also at about 30 minutes from here, which was my only reservation when deciding on a home birth. Trouble is, the area covered by this hopital is more like a 30 mile radius. 2 midwives seems just ridiculous to me! I won't have my...