Bless my MIL!! She brought over a sling for me that she bought.. Oh I owe both her and FIL a great present this year for Christmas! He's sound asleep in it right now, and I couldn't be happier.. We're off to the shops soon, so I'm gonna see if I can pick up the nipple shields from the chemist (is that where you'd find them?) and do some grocery shopping. Honestly, in this past week alone, she's done more for me when we see her (which this week it's been 3 times) than DH has during the nights, every night!
JellyBean - In the regards to DH, mine is like most of yours, though the advantage for me is the fact that he was with me when the dr told him 'She is not to lift anything heavier than DS until the 6 week checkup' so he's been pretty good.. He usually cooks and cleans up, though one day I got up to do the dishes because I was just sick to death of not doing anything (except feeding and changing bum and the rest) and felt hopeless.. Boy did I get a telling off! The thing that s**ts me with my DH though, is that I express my milk (right now I have to with the way my boobs are) and we discussed sharing the feeding duties so I express so he can feed him... I STILL find myself being the one that feeds him, expressed or boob! He also drives me nuts when he says to me 'You know your not pushing that pram very straight' I'd like to see him push the pram straight when you've got a s**tload of people walking in your direction and not moving for you!
That's exactly how I feed him when I do feed.. Today all I've done is express, express, express and given him that.. Not taking my chances until I get to the shops and get those damn shields! The other thing I get frustrated over when DS is feeding is sometimes he'll click his tongue and the nipple will appear near his lip and he'll then suck it back in... When he does that, I KNOW he's not attached properly so then I re-attach him, but then he'll move around so much that it'll happen again.. Oh the frustration!
Kass - Yeah, DS is like that.. Loves sleeping on my chest! Used to love sleeping on DHs chest but since he's been back at work and he's barely gotten to spend time with him (all he does is work, come home and work some more) so now it's my chest he loves snuggling onto.. MOST of the time I can get him into the bassinette no worries, but it's the 2am - 4am 'go back into the bassinette and sleep' put downs that he doesn't wanna sleep in there and just starts crying again.
My MIL suggested and brought over pawpaw cream, so along with the shields, I'm gonna give that a try and if it's not working after a few days, then back to the chemist.
Stevie - Yeah, I was always dreading feeding time (as much as I loved it for the bonding) the first time my right side was cracked because it just hurt too much, and each suck there would be another tear. When I found the dried blood in the shower on my nipple, I shook my head and tried expressing a little bit from it, but it started bleeding again almost straight away.. so I feel for you! I did the crying too
My DH was so happy when I went into the nesting mode.. but now I'm home and since being home have folded 2 loads of washing and washed 1 load of dishes and thats it - he's getting annoyed. Whenever he snaps about the house looking horrible, I quickly like to remind him that I DID have major surgery and that I have to take it easy.. I hear him then mumble bout 'cant use that excuse forever' but I know he's only worried bout when we have people visiting.
Fi - Hun, my DH is basically the same. He'll hold DS when I ask him to but other than that, if theres a 2am nappy change needed, DH gives me the 'Do you mind, I have to work tomorrow' look and then rolls over. Unfortunately for me, DH only had 7 days of parental leave and used most of them when I was in hospital still, so I'm like you.. Recovering from a c-section and having to do everything. HUGE hugs for you. Instead of doing things around the house, whenever there's an opportunity to get out the house, he'll take it.. Eg. There were regional finals for poker bout 15 minutes from home on Tuesday and all day he was convinced he wasn't going to go.. 6:40pm rolled around and he says 'I'm off, I'll see you when I get home' - which wasn't till 10:30ish.. Except for the essential 'going to appts and shopping' outings, I've gone out once, and that was yesterday to the Perth BB meetup.. He's been to the casino with an old friend, to poker twice without me and DS, a funeral (but I wouldn't wanna go there anyways) and golfing a couple times too.
Will pop back later now that I have two hands - if not tomorrow cause again DH has lots of work to catch up on online... I hate report time
) then i seen the little pinch marks on her cute little pudgee arm and i almost cried with her, i felt terrible 
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