Hi Ladies,

Sorry i have not been around, but have just been so exhausted!! I hope your all going well and your bubba's are being good. Im too tired for personals atm, but hopefully things will settle soon and i will have more time here. I will try to remember a few things i just read lol!!

I had two 2nd degree tears and some grazes, and it has been 4 weeks and im still finding it uncomfortable to go to the loo, and sometimes a bit painful (depending on the amount of water i drink)

Fran im glad alessia has started taking the boob again. Ethan also refused the boob and i too was devastated, unfortunately we tried everything and he wont take it back, and he wont drink EBM either so he is now on formula, im still pretty upset about it as i really wanted to b/f or at least express for him Now im on a course of tablets to dry up and stop the milk, i will cry the day nothing comes out!!

On the nappy rash, tracey, ethan had a blistered but too, he also had what looked like a graze around the bottom that did end up bleeding, but healed nicely with amolin cream, it was from really acidy poo's.

Any one with an up all night, short sleeping, reflux, colicky bubs i can really sympathise lol Ethan was waking up every 1.5 to 2hrs for feeding up until sunday, when he wakes up he is awake for anywhere from 1 to 3hrs screaming from pain because he has reflux and just wont part with the wind, he really gulps down his bottles too so we are going to go and try to find a slow flow bottle, my breast milk flowed real fast too. The bottle ethan uses now is an anti colic, but doesn't seem to work to well. The longest ethan has slept for is 4 hrs but it was only once lol. He is going longer between feeds now, being on the bottle, but still doesn't sleep because of the wind!! By the time i manage to get his wind up and him settled and asleep, he only stays that way for 2hrs then gets hungry again!

Ethan had home visit from the CHN yesterday and i couldnt wait to get him weighed but he was asleep and we didnt want to wake him, so i will go see her in 2wks and we will do it again.

Does any one elses bubs scream blue murder at nappy change time?? As soon as i pop one button on ethans clothes he starts screaming and doesnt stop till his clothes are back on. He is great with his baths though..once he is in he stops crying, then crys when i take him out lol.

Also during the pushing stage of labour my coccyx (sp??) was broken, so im seeing the physio 3 days a week and having it ultrasounded, i sit on rolled up towels and use a heat pack at night in bed, but still have a fair bit of pain. Has this happened to any of you? and do you know of other ways that i could help relieve it?

Ok well i must go and prepare ethans bottle as he is stirring now, and then i have to go out to the chemist, its sooo cold today and i really would just like to keep ethan home, but it must be done.

Hopefully there wont be such a big time gap before im here again.
HUGS TO ALL YOU WONDERFUL MUMMA'S

Jessikah