Well what a night, poor little Lucus was in tears from 10pm till about 4am when he finally got to sleep. I mentioned this on the Dec belly budies group so I'll cut and paste (very tired and any easy option is good).

As for Lucus the poor little guy had a sudden flare up of nappy rash and the zinc creams just made it worse. Was on the phone in the early hours after non-stop crying since 10pm to Health First exhausting every option only to find out we'd tried it.

Luckily I'd been using Bicarb baths for myself and tried that on him which worked and I found a tiny sample tube of Bepanthen ointment in the final Bounty Bag given in hospital. That got us through to seeing the DR and now with the sigmacourt cream it is on the mend.

All I can say is I have never been so happy for a sample product in my life. That and I have never felt so useless as last night being unable to help make lucus feel better.
Breast feeding is going well I think, there is a lot of milk there and I am using a Medela swing pump to help keep the engourgment down. Lucus ends up soaking wet if he waits too long to feed as I just leak all over the place. So I am now using a combination of breast (with or without shield depending on how sore I am) and expressed bottle feeding (love the Nuk teat as its reduced his wind).

I feel a little like a cow and a lot like a playboy bunny - no idea what size i am up to now but it looks pretty impressive.

Ok thats it for now, I'm about to pass out and I think I might need dinner first.

Good luck tonight - I hope we all can get a little sleep.

Diana