A year ago ...

[Fuschia]

I was in a really bad way and everybody here was helping to

Prop me up

Baby born 4/12/10

Wouldnt latch on

Was expressing all his milk

Finally had tongue tie dx, snipped on 21/12/10 but took him

A month to learn how to breastfeed

I has high blood pressure, readmitted when he was a day old, back and forth to mau in the first 2 weeks with problems, ended up with a ct scan for horrible neurological symptoms

Later dx with a chest infection snd urine infection - no wonder I felt so ill

With a baby 100% reliant on ebm my breast pump blew up on Xmas day!

Thank goodness for the forum ... Had several offers of loan pumps Abd at about 11pm I went put with my cost over my pjs and borrowed a pump from saffron

Honestly, it was a terrible time and thd women here, really helped to keep be going, especially at 3am when I felt so ill and alone

Wonderful place it can be, this forum

[Fuschia]

Was a time when our mOthers were doing it, they could drop in on real neighbours for baby advice, I suppose this is the virtual equivalent!

[Pickle]

Wow, that's a year ago?! Doesn't time fly, and how amazing that you came through it all so admirably. Must be time for #5? ;-)

I agree that the support to be gained from others on this board is fantastic, and it's very much the virtual equivalent of what our mothers did (although I know my mother wouldn't begin to understand if I told her I was part of a Mum's community online!).

[Fuschia]

It was a year ago ... Time does go by so fast.

Though not those really dark difficult 6 weeks I had. Seemed to go on forever. I really never thought he would breastfeed!

[snowboarder]

I remember as I was pregnant and it really made me realise that just because you have breastfed easily once the next baby can be entirely different. Well done for getting through it all!

It is amazing how much support, virtual and real, is out there now. My mum was only in her early twenties when she had me, had just moved to the outskirts of a small town 200 miles away from her family and didn't even have a phone. Apparently the weekly baby clinic visit was literally the thing she looked forward to all week. I would absolutely have gone mad...we are lucky!

[Fuschia]

My mum always had really good real

Neighbours/friends she could call on ... Very lucky