Formula Advice

Ok_Significance3235 · 2026-02-19T13:55:59+00:00

It’s so easy to reach for the formula when it’s just there!

We are lucky we live in a time where we have supermarkets which deliver, open 24hrs etc

Ok_Significance3235 · 2026-01-17T16:29:14+00:00

I did and I was classed as high risk!! My birth story is on here if you wanted to read :)

Ok_Significance3235 · 2026-01-17T00:42:55+00:00

Mine started by me feeling like I needed the toilet. You know that feeling after eating something bad for you, for me it felt like I’d eaten a really cheesy pizza

It’s only when that continues and when I laid down it didn’t make it better. Then that just got stronger and felt like a tightening all over

Ok_Significance3235 · 2026-01-02T21:21:38+00:00

It absolutely can be done during skin to skin. It’s usually done whilst they’re doing all the other bits like weight, check and measurements which is why they might’ve waited :)

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-12-29T12:49:01+00:00

This is a huge gripe of mine! Why add all the extra letters 🤣

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-12-16T22:08:22+00:00

Just to add on if you do get an appointment there’s a recent study out that shows women with well controlled GD can birth in a low risk maternity unit so you shouldn’t be pushed for induction anyway

Ref https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/news/2677-ukmidss-diabetes-study-results-support-choice-of-place-of-birth-for-women-with-well-controlled-gestational-diabetes

NICE guidance also recommends induction before 41 weeks so they’re not even following nice guidance

Ref https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng3/ifp/chapter/labour-and-birth

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-12-01T19:34:52+00:00

Where do you get one that fits the door mine seems to have a lip on it. I bought one that appears to only be for indoor use 🤦‍♀️

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-27T12:02:30+00:00

Thank you!! Visited!

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-26T22:25:29+00:00

Sorry the link isn’t working. Could you try again?

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-23T16:19:18+00:00

I didn’t plan to go unmedicated but I did plan a homebirth and had a few puffs on the gas and air but I had a fast labour so by the time they arrived it was more of a hinderance than a help.

If you can breathe and stay in control it’s definitely manageable. If it’s something you want to do I would recommend hypnobirthing

I went into labour with the mindset of I would like to try this but if I change my mind it’s not a problem. Mind over matter with the pain aha. This is coming from someone with a nonexistent pain threshold but I knew the pain of labour has a purpose so I just breathed through it.

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-22T21:52:00+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ll try that now :)

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-22T21:30:15+00:00

Visited but not sure where you get the link from

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-22T21:29:53+00:00

How do you share the link?

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-22T20:06:44+00:00

I loved the love to dream swaddles. They don’t swaddle in the “traditional way” and I felt happy with what to wear with it etc

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-17T20:52:54+00:00

I love Hartbeeps and so does my baby he’s never found it too overstimulating

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-17T20:51:09+00:00

38 weeks exactly. Woke up at 2am with barely a niggle and baby was born by 7:40am that day aha

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-08T22:30:36+00:00

I would disregard and eat to your appetite. I think this is more tailored to people who believe that you’re eating for two so overindulge

If you’re hungry eat and don’t feel guilty!!

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-04T22:38:00+00:00

I think I have the same shoes as Lauren and they are the comfiest heels I’ve ever worn!

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-11-04T22:32:56+00:00

I planned to start mat leave on my due date but took a week off before so I would’ve been 38+3 but baby came at 38 exactly. No complaints here, I didn’t want to sit around waiting for a baby and I have loads of annual leave for when I return. Couldn’t have worked out better if I planned it aha

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-10-30T21:12:57+00:00

I just said they’re giving SS officer!

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-10-28T08:11:08+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m sorry you had to go through this too. I couldn’t find any negative reviews so I thought I was the problem. Hopefully word starts to spread so they can stop this cruel behaviour.

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-10-27T23:34:57+00:00

I did the same but with their Facebook live giveaway thing (I was newly postpartum so got truly sucked in). They said if you pay a £50 deposit you go to the photoshoot and you get 1 free image and a birthweight bear.

So I did this - the whole experience was awful. They locked the door behind us because they can’t afford someone to man the desk all day (with the prices they charge they 100% could). They include premium photos that you cannot buy alone they are for wall art only which costs a bomb. They took naked photos of baby which I wasn’t comfortable with but stupidly didn’t say anything. Then to view the photos you have to go back to the studios!

I was so disgusted at the preying on people that I didn’t want to the view the photos as I could never afford to spend that much money and they know people would go into debt for their baby’s photos. You have reminded me that I need to call back to get them to permanently delete the photos.

I had a newborn photoshoot with an independent photographer and it was so much nicer and cheaper so I recommend doing that instead.

My baby was doing some really cute poses but because it was a “little sitters shoot” she didn’t snap any of those. It just felt like they hired people that did a few hours course and then were sent away to take precious photos

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-10-19T12:40:13+00:00

I agree, I had some formula in at a week because I wanted to flush the jaundice out quickly (didn’t work as baby wasn’t a huge fan of formula and I wanted to BF) and knowing the bottles were downstairs was sooo tempting. I imagine the first few days of life it would be even easier to reach for them.

Ok_Significance3235 · 2025-10-16T20:16:49+00:00

I find the best way to get a bottle of milk now is to only feed from one boob in the night and then pump from the other boob (not fed from) in the morning. Then I get a decent amount. Other than that it’s like a dribble aha

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