Hi ladies - just in a bit of zombie land here. We have such a beautiful day outside - wish I could take the kids out but afternoon sleeps make things are little limited.

I'm keeping in touch with you all, sorry for not posting much tho. April is generally doing well. Not up so much at night and either sleeps a lot between feeds or not all during the day. The jaundice keeps her a little lazy still at the breast but the LC guided me to just bfing so - so far so good. DS loves his sister and can't get enough of cuddles and kisses but is a handful still and goes running off crying for no reason so that is a little hard to handle at the moment but all in all ok.

April's cord came off after 7 days - it bled for a few days but is fine now.

I'm hardly bleeding at all now - just a yucky coloured discharge mainly but most times nothing to be seen.

April is feeding really well - she latches on well which is a big change from how it was with DS. I feed her in bed sometimes at night but find that my milk doesn't drain as well in those feeds so prefer to get up and feed on couch if i can. Also, I found it interesting that even tho i am bfing exclusively, I went to bed last night without a breast pad and didn't leak at all - hmmmm....

I had a jazsling all lined up to use but when I used it last Sat i realised it is way too big so have sent it back for a smaller one which hopefully will be the right fit. I also changed the colour from black to a stone colour - the black i think will show lint and muck a lot easier.

welcome officially deb, kim, purplemamma, seena, gincasa - looking forward to getting everyone's imput about their babies in here. I am not a first time mum but still feel i have room to learn.

jo - love your pics of your family on fb!!!

seena - going to try and totally bf April only cos like jo i don't want anything interfering with bf, and things totally were stuffed when i had DS - we were all over the shop. Hopefully my aim is to feed less at night with adquate bf supply and more during the day.

gincasa - how are you hun? I took April to local shopping centre when she was 9 days old and bf at gloria jeans with a muslin wrap to cover - I felt good about it all. Then we took her to my aunt's 50th last weekend which was fine cos lots of family were there for cuddles - feeding pattern went a bit out of the window tho. Looking forward ot catching up.

As for DTD, I am strictly waiting for the 6weeks go-ahead. We have not yet talked about contraception, whether we want more kids, etc etc. Just not ready for all that yet when sleep deprivation is not making me think too clearly.

kirsten - glad you do not feel guilty about ff ryley - as you shoudn't. I had a terrible time with DS and almost asked my mum and sil for permission to stop bfing at 10 weeks - I was a wreck - so I applaud you doing the right thing early for your bub and you.

Big hugs to everyone - my little one is screaming her lungs out so I guess it's milk time!!!