500!!! yay! But I'm still a Kidlet...I tells ya what, I feel like I've posted 5000 times, not a mere 500...
All is well as far as the maternal nurse is concerned, with Oscar.
Got to visit my pony today - he's got a really, really raw wither rub (bad mummy!) but it's not as bad as one I saw a few years ago that got really feral. For the non-horsey, the wither is the point where the neck meets the back and shoulders, or the bottom of the mane - if it gets a little bony then a heavy duty rug can lay too heavily on it and rub the skin off...ouch! DP was wondering why he was so antsy walking down the hill, but that would be why. Anyway, I fed Oscar in the sunshine there and did something really clever - I walked and fed at the same time! My horse looks like a bag of bones for being so out of work, so I'll need to get some weight on him and his muscles a bit more toned before I get on him - just as well he's out of shape or I'd be doing something silly like hopping on this week...
My cold has gone away - I told it to and it listened! However, DP has got one now,and he sounds sick, too.
Back to getting a frozen dinner unfrozen...
Thanks for your advice lovely ladies, i really dont know what else to do, i am going to try to get a referall to tresillian and see if they can help me, if i thought he was just unsettled and whingy then it wouldnt bother me so much , i know that he is getting terrible wind pains cause he will be ok one minute and then break out into a scream the next and curl his little legs up into his chest, it breaks my heart.
i posted in the breastfeeding section and got a reply to say that maybe i have a quick letdown and because im persisting and keeping him on the breast he is getting too much and getting wind hence the pains! it does make sense, when i was in the hospital the midwives told me that a feed should last one hour. does this seem right?
Everyone is telling me to 'just put him on the bottle' but if i do that and i find out that its not really a feeding issue i will be devastated, i feel that when im feeding him its 'our' time, breastfeeding is the one thing that only i can do for my child and no one can take that away from me, i feel like if i put him on a bottle we wont bond. i know its silly and most of my friends bottle feed their kids and believe me they have all bonded with their children. I really dont know why i feel this way.
IK- what you said about your friends breastmilk sounds interesting, do you know how they discovered this? how do you test your breastmilk to find out if its an allergy? it would make sense though.
Bath - i know, my ticker picture says it all doesnt it? we hardly have any photos of him because whenever he is awake he is crying and they arent nice piccies to have. Most of our pictures are of him sleeping!!
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