Dee, poor Ethan with his cold! I hate it when babies have colds and they can't sniff or clear their noses. We used Fess saline drops with Tom to help him feed, and they made a big difference. I wouldn't mind betting that Ethan's been feeding a lot because he's been getting sick. But yes he sounds an awful lot like Tom with his feeding habits.

Re the pumping, yes it will increase your supply but then block feeding may reduce it a bit, so it's swings and roundabouts, I guess. Here's an article on the ABA site that I found helpful: Australian Breastfeeding Association - Too much milk and if you go to kellymom.com they have good info on that too. I'm pumping once a day because I want dh to start giving Tom one bottle a day so that when I go in for surgery, Tom will take the expressed milk. The block feeding is either working or he's more settled with his cold going away, because he didn't wake up *quite* as much last night and isn't having as much wind. We'll see how we go... dh is going away for three days next week and I'm panicking about how I'm going to get all the kids off to school after having no sleep at night!

The leg warmers sound great! I like to put leggings on Tom under his pants so the breeze doesn't get up them, but they are really hard to find in anything bigger than a 000. I'm buying him girls' tights so he doesn't get cold!

I'm sorry you were abused by the woman - I guess while I can understand her frustration, it should be aimed at the management for not providing adequate facilities for both disabled people and nursing mothers!!

And thank you for that link, it looks really interesting.

Hope everyone is well. Check in, I'm dying to hear how everyone's babies are going