oh Veronica, I hope your night wasn't as bad as you though it was going to be
Hugs.

Hi Sportychick and welcome!!!

In regards to stitches, Mine stopped stinging around about the week mark, although they only stung very rarely, adn I never had any stinging passing urine..... They were mega itchy though for about a week... thankgoodness that is ver with now, the stinging was much more bearable!! I am really worried about them bursting. I am not game enough to have a look or a feel to see how things are going though! I will wait till my 6 week check up, give my GP something to do! hehe
I am using a pad everytime I need to go for number 2's.... I have this horrible image of everything re tearing.... eeek.

My appetite is pretty normal, I guess I am a little hungrier than when I was preggers. But my thirst has increased something shocking!
I am needing to drink a whole 750ml bottle of water at just about every feed. I am finding nothing else quenches my thirst, and boy am I thirsty!!!

Well, the boobies are starting to settle down a little. I am not squirting poor Lach as often, but I did notice that I had 7 diff sprays coming out of one nipple yesterday!! lmao

We're starting to get into a routine now, and Lach is only really waking up twice a night for feeds, which is really good. Its so hard to try and get him to self settle at night, specially when u know u have finished feeding and changing and you know he wants nothing more than sleep, so all you want to do is go to sleep.
On the self settling front, I am doing the following:
Put Lach to bed, he usually cries... so I give him 2 mins, go back in replace his dummy, pat him on the tummy and tell him shhh its sleepy time now, and then walk out.
He is usually quiet for a few mins, an then loses his dummy. STarts crying again, so I give it 3 mins this time, then go back in replace his dummy, pat his chest and say "shhhh", then leave.
I keep upping the interval a minute or 2 every time, but from the third time onwards, I say nothing to him just pat him and replace his dummy.

I find that betweeen 20 mins and half hour of this is what is needed to get him to sleep on his own. Thats from wide awake. If he sounds like the worlds about to end though, we always make sure we go in and check on him. Some of those cries are just scary!!!! I hate leaving him to cry even for 2 mins on his own, but I figure if I dont start trying to teach him now, he'll be 4 years old and needing to be rocked to sleep... my poor arms then!! hehe

Anyway, I'm going to head back to bed myself. Someone has self settled after only ONE try!!! must be tired! hehe

Have a good day girls! I'll probably pop in later

Hugs