Hi ladies, thanks for your thoughts re Eithan he is doing much better at the moment but will get into that more later.

Just popping in quickly to talk about BF and expressing. I had troubles with Eithan in hospital and he had to be admitted to special care as he lost too much weight because my milk didnt come in until day 5-6.
I would breast feed him both sides and then express from each breast. Next feed he would get breast, then about 10-15ml of expressed breast milk and then a 30-40ml top up of formula. Then after doing that I would express again for next feed. It was done to encourage Eithan to BF and to get my milk to build up, yet he was still getting the top-ups to put on weight. A midwife also told me to keep expressing a bit after you dont get anymore to encourage the breast to produce more. Also to swap sides and then to go back to the other side to see if I could get more again.
Eithan was a very sleepy baby so we had to encourage him to feed. We'd take off the bottom of his grow suit, tickle under his chin, rub his palms etc. Also he would go from left breast to right breast, then left and right again as moving would wake him up and also encourage breast milk. It was extremely exhausting but it really did help with my breast milk.

Hope that helps. Will be back for personals hopefully tommorrow.

Love