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Originally Posted by Beauchamp  Babies 10+months, so the leader said we'll just talk about whatever we needed to talk about since the PG mama wasn't there to get the newborn info. And then we talked about thrush for 30-40 minutes (one mama had it) and then we brought up gentle nightweaning vs CLW, which never really got any attention, because at that point the PG mama arrived and we returned to the talk of diapers, pediatricians, what hospital, what to expect in the hospital, etc.
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I can understand why she changed the topic - it makes sense but then to stay that amount of time on one subject really isn't catering to everyone's needs, 30-40 minutes on one thing - fine if there are only 4 moms there and you can give each one the same amount of time - not so great if there are say 10 moms there each needing to have points addressed - although I guess it must be quite hard to organise the time when the meeting is sort impromtu. At our meetings mothers are asked to present their questions when the introduce themselves whether it is relevant to the topic or not, then we go from pg moms to newborn, to babies then toddlers, if the questions aren't answered by the time the meeting ends then said mother can speak to the leader during the tea part of things or phone later on, so that she never feels left out - anyway maybe you could present that idea - or not - if your getting bad vibes from her - I'm sorry that this is hard for you.
