Ok, so I have read the conjunctivitis threads but am I doing this right...

[Olive]

i wipe the eye with salty water then squirt away with the BM!!

sounds like your doing fab! when she wakes wash again then squirt into her open eye, ive been doing my 3 yr old but ive been expressing then syringing it in

[Fleur]

I squirt over the top of her eye then let it run in, then wipe it off with a tissue once it's gotten into the eye.... a bit messy, but as with the others, I think she's used to it now!
I try to do it at every feed.

[tk1999]

Thanks ladies!

What do I do overnight? She isn't always waking through the night and you can bet that because I want her to wake tonight (so I can squirt her eye) she will sleep through... should I set an alarm and do a wipe over?

[Fleur]

I wouldn't, if it's not too bad... I don't usually do DD's through the night even when she wakes, I leave it until the morning.
If it looks really gunky right now you could just wipe it over but if it's not too bad I'd leave it

[~Kim~]

naaah, I wouldn't. Nate's get pretty bad, but doesn't seem to bother him overnight.

[tk1999]

Thanks ladies!!

[tk1999]

I am thinking maybe it is not conjunctivitis... DD has no gunk this morning - she had a gunky crusty bit where 'sleep' would normally be and her eyelashes had some gunk crust in it but no more gunk since she woke...

I have squirted it when we woke and again since then.

Would it go away this quickly? Could it just have been something in her eye?

It was a pink yesterday and swollen... today it is only slightly pink and still a tad swollen and my last question (well for this post anyway LOL) is do I have to take her to a doctor? or will BM be enough to clean it with?