The pain is lessening, except on the ridges that are a little blistered, so I expect that will settle soon. My milk is coming in today and she started gulping, so I hope she can relax her grip and her jaw so that it widens up a little. The mw and I think it might be that not only was she small for dates, but not really 39 weeks, either, which could explain the latch issue. She had a thick coating of vernix all over her, to support our theory, as well as just not opening her mouth wide enough. She'll catch up and we're not too worried about it anymore. It's NOTHING on the damage DS gave me, with nipple vasospasm chucked in for good measure!
Tegam, you are so right - I'm swearing like a trooper and popping the Panadeine for these after pains! I'm taking raspberry leaf tea again and DP is out at the health food shop sourcing some tissue salts recommended by another mw colleague of my mw's. I'm going to massage in my postnatal oil blend, some of my magnesium oil blend AND whatever DP brings home to see if I can get off the tablets. I'd very much like to do a number two at this stage and the panadeine is not helping my case much!
My mw and I were discussing baby blues and that I didn't get them with DD1 and doesn't look like they're looming for this one - we seem to think, anecdotally, that HB circumvents the baby blues - what do you ladies think? I definitely got them with DS, who was a perfect birth centre birth. Staff check ups, hospy furniture, visiting hours etc...all stuff I didn't have to deal with for the last two.
Anyway, it would be interesting to read from you who have had both or only homebirths