A different bottling theme today, and this time I’m refering to bottle feeding Boyo. At this age (and if you haven’t got to go back to work yet), if you can be be bothered, good on you, but for me the hassle is not worth time away. Expressing, sterilising and then feeding – the boob is just soooo much easier.
Baby Boyo is now four and a half months old and the added hassle of trying to get him adapted to taking feeds from a bottle is too much for us to entertain. All that pumping and crying, for what? So I can go out without him for a few hours while hubby fends for himself with the three year old and baby. No thanks. I have no desire to be apart from my baby yet and I doubt hubby has a wish to advance multitasking skills to that level. Although I’m sure he’d love to be able to feed the baby…that part of breastfeeding can be really tough on the dads.
I appreciate that many mums are desperate for some “me time” away from the baby. But that’s just not me. I felt the same with my three year old when she was tiny. I expressed so I could go to the supermarket on my own and guess what, it felt wrong.
My sister in law, who’s hen night is coming up soon asked if I had got him on the bottle yet so I could go along.
I agreed to join for the meal if I could bring him along. But now I’m having second thoughts. It’s in the city centre on a Saturday night, they’re planning on drinking before the meal and the theme is St Trinians. It’s not the fear of dressing up, but its not the quiet meal I envisioned.
So for now baby Boyo is staying near his food source and I’m not going to bottle it. I don’t think I could contemplate an evening without him anyway.
No offense sis but I don’t think you’d be thanked for having a baby in tow on such an occassion anyway! So, in my opinion you’ve made the right decision. Besides if it’s going to be as cold out as it is with us tonight you’d be glad to be at home in the warm. Brrrhhhh.
You’re right Barbs and if he was suffering with teething like at tea time tonight, it would be a total nightmare.
Good on you, im breastfeeding my 9 month old daughter and you would think NOT wanting them away from you was a crime or something! x
Totally agree, still at nearly 8 months my boy and I have never been more than a room away from each other. Where I go, he goes!
Thats the way it should be they were in us for 9 months after all they are only babys once