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    how many maternity pads ??

    I was doing 10 a day for 6 weeks, then a few less for couple weeks but I was cut so think you loose more! And if you use oil to help heal some websites say soak your pad, so if u do that you'll ne using even more!
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    What time is bedtime??

    Grace slept through from 4 weeks but she's still going to bed when we do, she had her last feed at like 9:30 depending when she wakes in morning and will nap in evening n the minute we take her to bed she's wide awake, unless we feed her in our bed and she goes straight into her bed. Soon we're...
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    Teething

    She doesn't like ring cause the bubble bits on ring don't go in her mouth well, she tends to just lick it lol! Think I'm gonna try the giraffe! A friends little one was the same with hers! Fom mothercare I think Arnt they? What are the granules? How safe r they? And what do you do with them...
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    Teething

    Do you recommend using teething granules? Or anything else? Got a water filled ring but she's taken better to the toys with teethers on them but struggling to keep hold of them. Thanks
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    looking at weaning and really don't know where to start, help please!

    Thanks for all your comments, everyone had their own opinions and it's nice to hear both sides, I only thought she may be ready as there was a change in her. She's slept through from 5 weeks, was happy with her feeds it was only when she started waking and not settling that I didn't think milk...
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    looking at weaning and really don't know where to start, help please!

    mine was useless which is why id rather talk to experienced mums, people that have actually had children not just read a textbook. thanks for you help tho
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    looking at weaning and really don't know where to start, help please!

    ok thank you! yeah i don't mean right now, i thought 4 months was ok if she wasn't settling with milk?
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    looking at weaning and really don't know where to start, help please!

    I think Grace is going to need to be weaned soon but really unsure. I always said i will wait till 6 months and not before even though family say i should before because she's a big baby 8'11 lbs at birth, 15 lbs at 14 weeks (now) and she's greedy! She is on 180ml formula 5x a day and slept...
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    Your Next Pregnancy

    I'd like another but told hyperemesis comes back with my next pregnancy too so wouldn't look forward to having that with a little one!! Think id relax more and not do so much, and try and enjoy being pregnant instead of looking forward to it being over! Don't think I'd find out sex the next...
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    Good or bad birth

    I had a horrible 48 labour after waters breaking with help of infuction n two failed epidurals rows with midwife n anethetist baby stuck, being cut! And then ending up in scbu! But all worth it in the end xxx
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    Baby and dogs

    My dogs a cocker spaniel and a working dog so is real hard work, he needs big big walks and even then he doesn't calm down, he's 1 n half so still a baby. He stays in our kitchen and has run of garden too he comes in living room most evenings. I would recommend stair gates when there little...
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    No sign of AF??!!

    I'm the same, did bf for 4/5 weeks with top ups of formula, it's now 7 weeks so not as long as you but I was curious what the normal time frame is? X
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    How do you get your baby to sleep?

    Can't comment for the night time cause Grace goes in her Moses basket wide awake sometimes and goes off herself, I dont wanna get her relying on something to send her asleep, but this also be cause she was a special care baby and they r used to noise n tend to settle themselves in quiet or...
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    Advice on lo feeding pattern..?

    Grace is 4 weeks today and was 8'11 when born and just over 10lbs now. She's a greedy hungry baby and loves her milk! We had a little problem with over feeding which made her sick at night- projectile! Hv said cut out her last feed which has worked, so from 6 feeds to 5 a day. She has 120ml of...
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