We're off to hospital tomorrow...

[CinderToriella]

Good luck

[Heaven]

Good luck today clover!! You're doing such an awesome job persisting through that kind of pain for 8 weeks and doing all you can to get help!! With that kind of determination I have no doubt you will be able to sort it out.

[Early Kids]

Good luck today hun x

[Jewel]

Good luck with everything today!

xox

[Manhattan]

Hope everything goes well with your appointments today, and you get some much needed answers. Good on you for persevering, you are doing a great job x

[UsPlus2]

Good luck today. Hope you get some answers and some relief soon.

[~clover~]

Well, I think we are even more confused about what to do...

First of all, instead of suck, swallow, suck, swollow, Summer does suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, gulp & try to breath...suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, gulp, cough, splutter, breath...
Then, attatchment is perfect. Try to flange her lips out more & hold her in the 'madonna' hold, but other than that attachment is pretty much perfect.
She also has a pretty lazy suck, & while attatchment is fine with the way everything is lined up, she's not got the normal strong suction/seal she should have. If I let her head go slightly back, she comes off.

They don't understand whats going on. But there are some idea's floating around. Because she's sucking so many times before swallowing, she's loosing her breath & thats wearing her out. Thats why she doesn't feed as long as I think she should be. But with no off coloured poo issues, she's somehow getting enough fore & hind milk. Even though by the time my let down finishes, she's done. I feel my let down very strong, so know exactly where we're up to & as soon as it starts to ease she's done with the feed.

So they are going to discuss the idea of seeing an OT. Decide if they think it'll help or not. Try to reteach her how to suck/swallow properly if they can.
In the meantime, try to encourage sucking. They say its quite normal for a baby to suck on anything for comfort. Finger, dummy, thumb etc. But Summer won't. As soon as something else goes in her mouth she pushes it out. She gag's if I try getting more boob in her mouth!
She won't even take the boob for comfort. Its only for feeding & hunger. She rejects it any other time.

Its all so confusing...

[Jennifer13]

Ahhhh, sounds like more questions than answers!! But at least you know one thing, you have been an absolute star and spot on in everything so far. You definitely know your baby and her feeding better than anyone. You've just got a very complicated case. Thank goodness Summer has you for a Mummy, because it's due to your determination and perseverance that she's still being bf.

I am totally inspired by you.

[~clover~]

I'm a learning experience for all of them! They are all going to do more reading/research & get back to me. All disappointed they weren't much help though.

[onthefly]

Well it's progress of a sort.
Does she have a blocked nose or something like that?

[~clover~]

Not at the moment, no. With the reflux at the start she was pretty snuffly. Maybe that's what got her into the bad habits?

[onthefly]

Maybe
You're going to keep these LCs busy, hey?

[~clover~]

Guess so.

[onthefly]

Just have to add - you're doing remarkably well despite all your problems. Just look at how well your litle girl is going!
Those cracked nipples must go, though - I hope you can figure something out soon

[Shanti]

Thanks
Thought all problems would've resolved themselves, or we'd have sorted them by now.
Praying for some sort of answer...

sorry to hear you're still battling on....but I'm so happy to hear you are still BF'ing!!
I took DD and I 4mths of hard work before all our BF'ing challenges were over..... it sure was tough but we got through it. You can too.
Good on you for getting the help.

[~clover~]

She's the first of my babies to get past 6 weeks without FF. Not having in the cupboard 'just in case' makes a difference!

[onthefly]

Well that's something to feel really proud of!

[Cassius2]

you are doing awesome babe! but i hear ya on the sore boobs!
DD2 has posterior tongue tie and oh dear what an interesting suck she used to have lol, so i feel for you with the guzzling, tired feeds.

have you thought about seeing an osteopath? we have had 2 sessions so far and the difference for us has been remarkable. her palate was all out of whack and she wasnt really able to keep a good attachment as she was not able to latch on well with her tongue. within the first session we were able to see improvement and now, 2 weeks later we are back on track and DD is able to curl her tongue, poke it out and we good attachment and deep feeds! (of course now i have heaps more milk to deal with but i am sure that it will settle down soon enough ).