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Claire_Jones_3

You're not mad I promise MrsW82! Some of my m/w's were horrible as well, you have to do what is best for you and baby!

Its the stangest thing with OH's go back to work and you are soley responsible for that little bundle and no-one is there to check things with, but don't forget everyone on here will help if you need advise or sanity! I'm so glad I found these forums when I was pregnant, you can ask any question without feeling stupid and find you're not alone!

Snaggles

Hi MrsW82, welcome :wave: - you're not mad hehehe!

Ooooh, your midwife is a bit harsh isn't she - offer to grate her nipples on a cheese grater and then attatch them to the hoover on maximum suction setting, and see how she enjoys it. If your baby is happy with a combination of breast and bottle, I think that's great - and you're expressing your own milk, so I don't see the problem really (in fact I wouldn't see the problem even if you were using...gasp.....formula).

Rather than criticise you, the most helpful thing she could have done was to check you are getting her latched on properly to minimise the pain. Is she opening her mouth really wide as she latches on? My delicate little girlie used to try and get away with only opening her mouth a little bit, like she was elegantly sipping a drink - I had to really convince her to open wide and swig it!

Are you using anything like Lansinoh or Kamillosan? They can help ease sore nipples too.

I hope your health visitor is more supportive - the first few weeks are the worst, pain-wise, I promise.

Congratulations on the birth of Samantha - I love your sig - Entonox is fab!!!

MrsW82

Cheers Guys!

That means a lot!:T

DD IS latching on fine...It just hurts!
(And this just so happens to be one of 3 M/W's working in the area - and my least favourate of the 3!:D )
I've got some Kammilsan (which I've not used yet, as it can only be put on after feeding), I have been using some Avent stuff, which eases it, but not as much as I'd like!

I'm now realising labour was a doddle compared to this!

Feeling much better now there's real people in the same boat as me - just a mouse-click away! And roll on it getting easier!



Thanks again -

MrsW82

SusanCarter

No you're not mad MrsW82. Our midwives didn't seem very keen on the idea of expressing and giving expressed milk but I did it from 10 days and found it really helped and Alice didn't get confused at all. One midwife also acted like having given her a total of 8oz of formula over two nights when I was really sore before I'd started expressing would totally counteract the benefits of breastfeeding when in actual fact any amount of breastfeeding is beneficial even if you only ever do one feed.

Thanks for all the medicine suggestions. We managed to have a much better night last night. I think it is the taste of the Medised Alice doesn't like as she took the Baby Meltus from the syringe but not the spoon (she's not spoonfed so I guess she doesn't understand how a spoon works). (I had a little taste of the Medised and I can't say I liked it either.) I expressed some milk and we put it in the milk but she refused to take it so in the end I held her while OH just shot a syringe full in her mouth. She spat most of it back out but I think she took some. We then put it in her 10pm bottle but she wouldn't take more than 1oz so then she woke at midnight because she was hungry. I fed her and tried to give her Medised from the syringe in the dark so she wouldn't see it but she still spat it out. She did go back to bed quite happily though and then woke at 3 with a wet nappy but again went back to bed happily afterwards. She seems much better today so I think she's probably over the worst of it now.

SusanCarter

Dormouse wrote: »

On a slightly more serious note, he's started bringing up milk after his feeds. He's always done a little dribble occasionally, but the last two days we've had quite big amounts of milk come out, not humongous but a lot more than we're used to, and after every feed. Anyone know what could be causing it? He's 16 weeks and fully BFed, no solids yet.

Alice recently had a little phase of sicking when she had pretty much stopped doing it. It was only once every day or two but quite a shock as we weren't used to it anymore but it only lasted a couple of weeks. Probably worth checking with GP or HV if you're concerned though.

Becles

MrsW82 wrote: »

I currently have the world's sorest nipples (from b/f!) I have resorted to using my breast-pump and a bottle occasionally (no more than 2 feeds a day), and this has helped. The only thing is, I had my last M/W visit yesterday, and she made me feel really bad about doing this - as if I'd done something pure evil!!!:mad:

Nice to meet you and baby Samantha :cool:

Take the "advice" with a pinch of salt. If you are happy with baby having a bottle, then do it. You need to settle with whatever you find easiest and comfortable, and that nourishes your baby. There is little point having a baby sucking on a breast when it is painful and uncomfortable for you, and difficult for baby as she will sense that you are tense and join in!

I took Charlotte to an Advent mass this morning. She was very well behaved and was quiet for most of the service, apart from when the priest was doing communion, when she decided to bounce manically on my knee and shout "laaaaaa" at the top of her voice The priest didn't mind though and he just smiled at her, then came and made a fuss of her afterwards.

Snaggles

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Natasha wouldn't take Medised, and in the end I started crushing down a biscotti and mixing it with that to make a paste, then fed it to her on a spoon. She ate it no problem like that.

If you don't have biscotti though, you could mix it in with a bit of any baby food I suppose - anything to disguise the taste!

Becles

Instead of a baby achievement post, this is a Mammy achievement post!

I started doing an Open Uni degree last October while I was pregnant. Despite being very poorly in pregnancy, Charlottes premture arrival and the usual issues looking after a newborn, I've managed to pass my first year :T

I've got a Certificate in Business Studies and I can put letters after my name :rotfl:

I've just started a level 2 course which I'm finding hard, but I'm enjoying it.

purplepatch

Don't forgt that calpol now do their own version of medised - they are marketing it in 2 different guises, Calcold and Calpol Night, both are identical products, just aimed at different situations (no doubt to reel us unsuspecting parents into buying both :mad:). My DD1 seems to find both calpol and calprofen utterly delicious :rolleyes: so I'm hoping that she'll like this new one. She finds medised completely disgusting and retches dramatically whenever she has to take it :rotfl:

PS congratulations Becles!!!

Dormouse

Well done Becles. :j I've always been amazed how you manage to juggle family, being self-employed, baby/pregnancy and do a part-time degree - well done. :T

My DH is with the OU too and I know how hard it is trying to do that when you have a family as well! He got his degree in May and is now aiming for Honours, although he decided to have a break while Alex is small, as there's no way he has any energy for studying in the evenings. :rolleyes: