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Although my husband did do the cooking, it meant he spent a fair amount of his time in the kitchen on Christmas morning rather than seeing his little boy open his presents (By ‘open’ I mean play with the wrapping paper!) All the extra attention and stimulation meant that my son missed his normal nap times and ended up tired and irritable later on, with my husband and I trying every trick in the book to try to relax him and get him to sleep. He was also not interested in feeding for most of the day which resulted in me worrying and him making up for lost feeds in the night time.

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Veronika Robinson appeared on the C4 programme ‘Extraordinary Breastfeeding’, which was aired in January 2006. She discussed the extended breastfeeding of one of her children at 8 years of age. She also has a blog which I will aim to review in another post.

You can hear Veronika Robinson speak about her new book and life experiences as a mother, magazine editor and breastfeeding counsellor in January 2008 in Bristol. I am hoping to attend the talk and will be reviewing her book once I have read it.

However, my husband and I were grabbing a quick cuppa in a supermarket cafe on our mega Christmas shopping day, when our little one needed a change of nappy. So off I went to the changing room come feeding room. During the change my son started to wriggle and become unsettled and I knew hunger was looming. I hurried to get the task done as quickly as I could but he was crying very soon and, spotting a chair in the corner, I made the decision to feed him there and then rather than struggle past all the Christmas shoppers to get back to our seats in the cafe.

This turned out to be a very good decision on my part. Firstly, compared to the cafe’s ‘greasy spoon’ style chairs this was like sitting on a throne, with an arm on which to rest my arm and a padded cushion under my bottom. Secondly, as my son had a bit of a cold and stuffy nose he kept coming up for air and coughing and spluttering at regular intervals, not a great advert for breastfeeding. Thirdly, there was much noise and distraction in the cafe. As he is sometimes easily distracted during a feed these days it prevented any embarrassing exposure when he stopped to look at around at what was going on and meant he could eat his lunch in peace.

I still do not intend to use a feeding room on a regular basis, but on the odd occasion they can be quite handy!

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EASY stands for Eat, Activity, Sleep and Your time, describing the routine for babies that the author recommends. Although I believe this is a good idea in principle, I would have welcomed more in depth hints and tips as to how to get ones baby into the routine. SLOW stands for Stop, Listen, Observe and What’s Up, offering a useful way of trying to work out what your baby is telling you.

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Despite never having children herself Verity promoted herself as a maternity nurse with years of experience in dealing with hundreds of babies. She claimed to hold diplomas in childcare and pre-school practice, which the universities claim to have no record of.

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