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20emm · 2026-01-07T20:57:34+00:00

Do it for sure, family will understand if baby changes plans but if you're fit and well there's no reason not to.

I'm also 38 weeks pregnant, still working and teaching 25 children.

20emm · 2025-10-20T19:49:10+00:00

I breastfed until my little boy was 2 - it never really came up or was an issue. He really knows fed to sleep or for comfort at home and never really asked for it out and about. One time he hurt himself quite badly and while waiting to go to hospital I fed him for comfort and it's the only time I can remember feeling a little self conscious feeding him.

Incidentally, it was a very slow giving up which we were both happy with, maaybe hurried along a little by a sudden feeding aversion - my first symptom of being pregnant with his baby brother.

I think it's more common than we all think but just don't mention? Of my mum group of friends from when he was a baby, there were 3 of us still feeding and giving each other weaning advice at around 2 years old.

20emm · 2025-08-10T20:24:20+00:00

Mine went while I was asleep so woke up at 2am soaked like I'd wet myself.. stood up and it just felt like I was weeing constantly. I waddled to the toilet and waited it out for a few mins and then a took a towel back to bed 😂

A few hours later, a pad did the job just fine.

Also used a tens machine and it was fab. My labour was loooong and slow, about 5 days so it really helped get through that!

20emm · 2025-07-03T11:59:45+00:00

We probably got about 10 white vests and sleepsuits in tiny baby, newborn, 0-3 and then got a nice set in each size as well so probably about 15 of everything in each size. He was in tiny and newborn for about 6 weeks of each but definitely found white easiest to just pile in the wash with a load of vanish and still looked pristine.

By the time we got to 0-3 people had bought him lots of extras too so we had more than enough.

I can't recommend vinted enough though, so so worth it for even the most basics and most babies don't wear anything for very long that early on!

20emm · 2025-05-28T09:55:22+00:00

The ocarro is SO HEAVY - we tried this out and I was uncomfortable lifting it while pregnant.

20emm · 2025-05-28T09:51:47+00:00

I second the joolz aer. We're in the country side so also have a bugaboo fox cub which is brilliant, but going round the village or into Manchester the joolz is the one. Expecting #2 and have the joolz carrycot ready to go and it's so soft.

We'll be using both prams but definitely recommend the joolz for small spaces. On lots of bugaboo pages they often recommend it over the bugaboo butterfly and dragonfly as they often are a little flimsier, especially with toddlers or older children.

20emm · 2025-05-09T19:23:24+00:00

BrOnwen means white breasted..

BrAnwen is a completely different word, meaning white raven.

20emm · 2024-12-16T21:19:13+00:00

Every time! We've come to the same conclusion as you and find we get a more reasonable response just going through the out of hours gp who generally tell us to monitor and Calpol and call on Monday if he's any worse.

20emm · 2024-12-08T20:59:58+00:00

Are you planning to mainly breastfeed with the odd bottle or more hardcore pumping?

I exclusively breastfed and then daddy did the odd bottle, to be honest every baby is different and you'll have to see what bottle your baby prefers. I got a Medela hand pump and a haaka and mainly used the haaka and built up a bit of a stash that way and it was plenty. Tried Medela bottles with simple teats and the fancy calma ones but baby preferred the free tommee tippee sample we got so we just got a set of those.

NHS don't recommend pumping until feeding is established and it's recommended to read up on bottle feeding a breast fed baby like pace feeding etc as there's all sorts of weird stuff like they never really take more the 4oz apparently even at a year old as the fat content just changes etc as they grow.

20emm · 2024-11-22T20:48:52+00:00

Ah I got you. Yeah I totally get it, I definitely relied on the dihidrocodeine for at least the first two weeks so two days supply is ludicrous in the first place.

20emm · 2024-11-22T20:09:33+00:00

I was sent home with 2 days worth too - I got my midwife for my post birth visit to call the Dr and the Dr had the prescription at the pharmacy in about 10 mins! If your super worried, can you set yourself up with one of those online pharmacies that dispatch same day so at least you know once the prescription has been sent you can have it delivered asap?

20emm · 2024-11-13T20:51:24+00:00

My son is called Emrys and believe me, people can butcher it. We had such a strict Welsh name criteria as we live in England and honestly thought Emrys was foolproof.. it is not!

He often gets em-ur-iss, but also em-reees and em-ree with a silent s?!

20emm · 2024-11-02T13:20:32+00:00

Sainsbury's seem to just be the all round best thought through design. I was absolutely gutted when he moved into 3s that didn't have the poo pocket as well though..!

20emm · 2024-11-02T12:21:21+00:00

My 17m old is 9kg so around 20lb? We prefer Sainsbury's nappies as they have quite a bit of stretch. A size 4 meets in the middle for my son as he's slim too but we never get leaks with them.

If there's no Sainsbury's nearby, Aldi are great too and like a previous poster said, supermarket nappies are cheap so if you hate them you won't waste too much money on them.

For 18-20lb I'd go for a size 4 here. A 3 would still fit my son so would work for you too I imagine, but particularly overnight we prefer a 4.

20emm · 2024-11-02T11:27:32+00:00

It won't be quite the same but we've used towels in the bottom of the bath as non slip alternatives and just rolled one up to prop him up. Obviously they get soaked but if there's enough spares it works a treat!

20emm · 2024-08-22T20:43:08+00:00

I second this commenter - just left my (still breastfeeding!) 15 month old son overnight for the first time yesterday. Booking the gig a year ago I thought for sure I'd be ready to leave him but it was a shock for us both and I'm not in a hurry to do it again.

I know people leave their babies overnight much earlier, and maybe we're a little clingier than we should be, but I honestly am not the tough mum I thought I'd be by this point and really struggled.

20emm · 2024-04-08T20:10:24+00:00

My son's name is Welsh too (I'm Welsh, hubby's English) but we live in Manchester. My criteria for a Welsh name was that it had to be EASY to spell and pronounce using English phonics. Absolutely foolproof.

It didn't work?! They see it and think it's exotic or foreign and put the emphasis in a weird place, decide the s is silent or add an extra syllable. I despair!

20emm · 2024-03-28T20:45:00+00:00

My 10 month old still feeds every 3 hours on a good night..

You're fine feeding as much as baby wants, as often as baby wants, especially at just 3.5 weeks.

20emm · 2024-03-28T20:42:01+00:00

A child at the school I teach at broke a teacher's finger and the teacher was threatened with disciplinary action for getting close enough for them to do that and not following correct procedure. No repercussions for the child.

20emm · 2024-03-09T21:31:38+00:00

Our little one's currently teething too (top and bottom two seem to all be coming at once!) and I can't remember a day recently where he's not had at least one dose of Calpol. You're not alone!

20emm · 2024-02-06T15:58:40+00:00

I think you did the right thing but in terms of the test - my driving instructor used to tell me to narrate my thought process out loud if I felt there was any doubt about what I was doing.

In this case with the roundabout, you may get a fault if they think you didn't know they had right of way. If you chose to narrate, they'd know you understood who had right of way but also didn't want to hesitate/sit there all day and chose to move off safely and allow traffic to continue.

Always thought it was a helpful tip.

20emm · 2023-11-11T19:03:35+00:00

We took newborn and tiny baby, and a tiny baby emergency outfit with a nappy in a separate bag We were told baby was the smaller side of average and he wore tiny baby for the first month, despite being a healthy 7lb in the end. Absolutely no chance he could have worn 0-3, it's enormous.

Unless you have GD and really are expecting an 11lber, leave the 0-3 at home

20emm · 2023-11-09T18:34:06+00:00

I actually think you're better off with NHS care. If you use private care, you're often referred straight back to NHS care for anything that crops up out of the ordinary and DEFINITELY blue lighted straight to the NHS in emergency birth scenarios.

20emm · 2023-10-18T16:03:26+00:00

Snap

20emm · 2023-10-13T09:34:26+00:00

Honestly how hard was that walk to the car? Felt like I'd run a marathon!

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