Hi!!! Can't believe I can actually come into this thread!! We are 3 weeks into exclusively breastfeeding - which killed my past record of 2.5 days! My next goal is 1 month, that's what I got to with Eden, and that was with top ups of both ebm and formula.

So we still have pain on latching but it's not toe curling and it disappears pretty quickly, so I'm guessing this is normal? It doesn't hurt enough for me to use shields or anything and its not causing any cracks so I'm thinking our attachment isn't perfect but it's not completely rotten either! She feeds about every 2 hours during the day, sometimes just one side, sometimes both. Then she usually wakes up twice a night for feeds. She has a bad habit of pulling at the nipple and tossing her head back and forth sometimes and I think I've worked out that she wants to suck but doesn't want milk. She's a huge comfort sucker, she came out with a blister on her arm where she had been sucking while in the womb!! So we use a dummy for those times and generally she is pretty happy!

So that's about it! Looking forward to celebrating one month!