Pixie - I had a yucky throat and stuffy nose last week, and I used my grandmother's trusty little recipe:

1 or 2 panadol crushed up (I use a mortar and pestle)
about 10-20 mls of brown vinegar
2 or 3 teaspoons of honey (or more if you like!)
about 1/4 cup boiling water

mix the crushed panadol into the vinegar (originally it was dissolve aspro in the vinegar, but I refuse to take aspirin whilst breastfeeding), then add the honey and the boiling water and stir until all dissolved. Drink while hot.

The panadol helps with the aches and pains, the honey soothes the throat and the steam from the boiling water helps clear the nose - not sure what the vinegar does, but overall, this concoction works ... cleared me up in about 2 or 3 days. I was taking Nyal cold and flu tablets (they are all natural) but they are not recommended for bfing mothers, so I switched to this recipe!

Squidipa, hope everything goes well with your appt today hun!

Bear - sounds like you had fun "on the farm"!!

Sasha - when I tried to express with #3, it took me half an hour to get 40mls!!! It felt like I'd get more standing in a hot shower, milk squirting every which way!!!

I just had the early childhood nurse here and she recommended that I drink a couple of cups of chammomile tea before feeding Veygas to help with the wind, so I might try that! I'm a bit worried to give him anything directly (panadol here and there for the pain, but I try to really use that sparingly!) cause I don't know how that will affect his hernia

We had a pretty ordinary night - took him a bit to settle, and his 10pm feed went ok, but he woke at 1am absolutely screaming and when he cried, it was seriously more like sobbing Took me til about 2.30am to settle him before he'd even feed, but then kept him in bed with me and got him to sleep through to 5.45am. Then he slept through to about 9am, with a few little whinges here and there in between, but I'm feeling a bit like rat ***** today!

Vic - that pie sounds yummy!!

to everyone else that I've missed, I think I'm started to read through closed eyelids!!