hi hi mummies!
Haven't been online for a while. I got mastitis twice and hated the feeling of big boobs and milk dripping non-stop, and my sister commented that post-delivery women are very disgusting, plus my husband's nil support of breastfeeding, coupled with the fear that I might have pus from mastitis inside my breasts, I stopped pumping for about 10 days.
But I saw how my baby suffered when she pooed. She had constipation. And so I went to get a PIS yesterday, but now the milk supply is extrememly low - 5 to 10ml. I'm pumping at every 2.5h to 3h interval and keeping my fingers crossed that the milk supply will come back again.
So envious that you are all meeting up. Would love to meet you mummies but I haven't even got my stroller yet and I still can't travel far.
Re: Old generation
My parents are always contradicting themselves and then say that they never say what they said previously. They ask me not to carry my baby the moment she cries but at the same time, my mother said not to allow the baby to cry too much, if not there'll be wind in the stomach.
After drinking the FM, my father told me to let the baby sleep if she didn't look uncomfortable, but a few days ago, he said I ought to burp the baby immediately after the feed, whether she wants to sleep after that.
I take it that they are old already and can't remember what they had said.
But on carrying the baby, I also read that if the baby cries and you pick him up, it'll make him feel secure. For my first kid, I did pick her up everytime she cried, but she's not the anyhow-cry type, so it's ok. After a few pats and singing to her, she'll be calmed. And I felt that it won't be too long before you can no longer carry her like this.
But for this second baby, there're times when the moment you put her down, she cries again. The moment you pick her up, she keeps quiet and so on. So if I feel that she's just being spoilt, then I won't carry her.