For those curious souls... I chickened out and waited until DH came home before going to loo... but would have worn bubs if I needed to.
I would love to try the chamomile/peppermint tea trick, but as I am exclusively expressing, I can't judge what time the milk I express will be consumed.. unless I take chamomile and peppermint tea (combined) at each expressing... then it's in all of them!
Janine - I have the Madela Lactina and it works a treat for me. I tried the Madela symphony at our local hospital (before I got my pump) and it was brilliant (had a two phase pumping technique) - but these are more expensive to hire and none were available when I needed a pump.
Just getting a quick post in while I've got a spare minute - but I have good news today! I don't know if it's me giving up caffiene, but we had a sleep through night last night! Liam slept from before midnight until around 6.15 am. Whoo hooo! It also helped that I started 'getting' what other people were saying about 'cluster feeding' in the early evening - night and wondered if Liam was hungry at that time (he's usually a bit ratty) - so I just kept giving him feeds every time he got niggly and he had heaps (150 - 200ml over a few hours). We are SO doing that again!
Anyway - I'm off to the football (soccer for the uninitiated) - haven't seen a game all season yet!
Ryley is on my boob for up to an hour or over at a time, I dont know why this long, but he does go to sleep and then wakes up then goes to sleep... once he goes to sleep on my boob I cannot wake him - he just doesnt wake then when i take him off the boob hes still screaming like hes starving all the time, been topping him up with formula and he settled so much, went to the docs about thrush got medication for both of us, but my breasts are that sore and Im so fed up with all of it, and it breaks my ehart to see Ryley screaming all of the time after my breast milk even after I express and he gets 120ml out of a bottle or more he still screams, so I tested giving him more formula yesterday and expressed and refrigerated my milk, he was perfect! Like a different baby I dunno if its coz he was 10 lbs 13 oz and just a big hungry bub or what it is my 1st was the same. So seriously thinking about just switching him to formula for good so the both of us are happy, but I feel sooooo guilty and like Ive failed as a mum if I do that and I should put up with the pain and persist in the hourly feeds to keep him from bein hungry for the sake of him. Its twice I couldnt stick with it cause of the same problems, he is just so unsettled on my milk its like it doesnt fill him up I dont know. I also feel like Ive failed a bit as a mum cause I had to have c sect's twice, now I cant breastfeed again! God what can my body do really? And my 3 yr old daughter is soooo sick this arvy crying like ive never heard her cry before and I feel useless cause I cant really help her but give her medicines and comfort her, and Ryley is unsettled with wind pain I am goin nuts - who knew it would be this hard goin from 1 to 2, its just been 1 thing after the other lately....
I better get back to it perhaps get some shut eye before one of them wake again.
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