Sorry to jump in, I was orginally in this birth group but went early. I just wanted to pop in say hi to Ang & see how she was going & of course hi to everyone else.
Ang, Sorry to hear that you had a difficult labour, at least you've recovered now.
I was in a very similar situation to what you've discribed as I couldn't breast feed Madeleine so was seeing the lactation consulants at the hospital but I could only EBM all feeds, they're great aren't they. I had thrush & just took the nilstat capsules (only cost $22) two doses of that seemed to clear it up for my along with the daktarin gel, unfortunately it's a little harder to clear for bub. I also had a terrible milk supply so went on the molitium tablets, they worked a treat, I had 2 scripts & have now given up as my supply wont stay good unless on the tablets & I don't quite feel so great on them, so we are about to revert to formula.
Hi all,
Candy Jay: Thankyou for posting, was nice to hear from you. Yes staff a hospital have been great especially lactation consultatants, i wouldn't be feeding Madeline still if it wasn't for them. I have also been taking the molitium tablets for 11 days now, they seem to be helping. I was expressing in between feeds so that i could top her up after each feed but now i don't have to do that, and because she sleeps 7-8hrs every night i express in the middle (around 2-4am) and if she needs a top up during the day i can give her the expressed milk. I still haven't gotten on top of the thrush despite using two lots of diflucin 1, but they have slightly improved. Do you need a script for the nilstat tabs? Lac consult recommened nilstatin tabs (are they the same), but said i would need a script from the dr. When i went to get a scrpit he told be not to bother trying them because they don't work. I would like to try them just to see if they work.
Hi Tazzy, gobbly, curl and SophieW - looking forward to getting to know you girls and chatting about our beautiful bubs.
SamiH - During preg we are told how natural it is to breastfeed and that we should do it for 6mths, but what they don't mention is how alien like it is and how hard it really is. To me it certainly hasn't come naturally but with the help of the LC it has been great. Generally i feel if your really keen and you can get help continously and support from your partner then theres a good chance that it will work. Yes its very hard to know how much they are getting unless you express and then bottle feed.
Yep these tablets are the same thing you were recommended. I was also told by my doctor they didn't work, but I said I'll try it anyway (he recommended that $200+ drug). I was suffering from pain & fever associated with thrush, I thought I was going to colapse at any minute. My first dose was great, after a few times of taking them, I felt great, I finished the script & was good for a few weeks then I got it back again & started another dose, again it worked. If you go and get a script, ask them for a few repeats on that script because there might be re-infection from feeding later & it will save you having to go back and get another script. Hope it works for you.
Candy Jay: Thanks for your advise, i had been feeling fever like and aching body too but i thought it was the begining of Mastitis. I knew that thrush caused shooting pain in the boobs but not anywhere else in the body.
Gobbly: Oh no to teeth OUCH!! Very young to be teething??
Hi everyone,
Thought i might post as no body has for a while. This thread doesn't seem to be bopping along very well.
Anyway Madeline had her 8wk injections today. I had been putting it off as i know how much it hurts and didn't want to put her through it. But I know how important they are and got up the courage to take her. She went well, a little cry (scream) but stopped quiet quickly. I had a few tears in my eyes whilst the nurse was doing it.
Maddy is doing well, smiling heaps and chatting a little now too. She is so much fun at the moment and i really enjoy her company. It has been hard for me to enjoy her, due to my horrible birth and then for the first 4 wks after wards from breastfeeding, colic and severe pain and tiredness (due to c-section). I'm still suffering from thrush but seeing a LC consult at the Royal Womens Hospital now so hoping they can help me. But feeding is going so much better and she is so much more settled after
feeds too.
I am having trouble figuring out what to buy her for christmas (anyone got some ideas). We are going to get her a jolly jumper but apart from that at her age apart from clothes and toys (which i know my families will get her lots of) there isn't much else. I am so excited about spending christmas with her, such a special moment for our new little family. I love christmas anyway but this makes it so much more special.
Gee i'm just thinking now how fast she is growing. It only felt like yesterday that i fell pregnant and not long after had her. Wow time flies. Speaking of that i better go and do some housework before she wakes up.
Cheereo
Angie
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for your advise, i had been feeling fever like and aching body too but i thought it was the begining of Mastitis. I knew that thrush caused shooting pain in the boobs but not anywhere else in the body.
). We are going to get her a jolly jumper but apart from that at her age apart from clothes and toys (which i know my families will get her lots of) there isn't much else. I am so excited about spending christmas with her, such a special moment for our new little family. I love christmas anyway but this makes it so much more special.
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