HIya all,
thanks for teh advice and support - its good to know I'm not the only one! I saw an LC yesterday and she helped me attach better - she explained that I didn't need to be doing the attachment method they show you in hospital now bubs is older, and I'm trying to use the cradle hold as much as possible once she is on to take the wegiht and pressure off those joints, so that will hopefully save my hands. My biggest worry has been that if I bf Alyssa for a year like i want, that i would screw my hands up for the next ones and not be able to bf at all. But hopefully, if I'm conscious of my hands, it might get better on its on. The doc's also referred to me to the physio dept at the womens and childrens hospital - I was thinking that hopefully they would have seen this before because they deal with women postnattally, so they will hopefully have some good strategies to cope to.

Thanks again