thanks girls for the welcome and Hi BG! the good thing about the LTTC, Pregnancy and parenting threads is that generally it's the same core group of people so it feels very comfortable coming in here with you all.

Well he'll be 5 weeks old this friday and we've had a very bumpy breast feeding ride. first he couldn't latch and took about 10 days to figure out he needed to pop his tongue forward and now he is having some major wind issues. So much so it interferes with his feeding brh.

am trying reclining, different feeding positions and Infant's Friend drops, both which are helping somewhat but don't know what else i can do to stop him guzzling in air. he gets about 5 or 6 mins into the feed and then gets back pain in his belly - sometimes it's burb pain but i think mostly it's bowel pain. So we've resorted to using a dummy after he feeds as sucking it seems to help him push the bubble through (going on the boob just compounds the problem). So the last 5 to 10 mins of our feeds take about 40 mins because he''s got to sit up and get his wind moving so often. Anyone else had this or have any words of wisdom/advice?

marcellus - work sounds thrilling lol. I'm sure your little one will settle for the sitter.

We've got our 6week immunisations next week... any advice for helping bub get through? I'm getting my whooping cough and swine flu vax as well, so Dh reckons both bub and i will be in tears by the end of the visit lol.

might go get some shut eye seeing he's finally down. poor little darling, the belly pain woke him a few times after his feed and he's only just settled.