Jen, I'm sure David will be fine, the new footage of bubs with whooping cough have totally freaked me out though and after our hospital stay with DS2 when he was a bub I have no desire to do it again.
Isadora, WELCOME! My third son was born the day after your DD2 My older boys are 3 and 2. I am breastfeeding and fed the other two until they were 11 months (self weaned) and 14 months (I weaned him so I could get pg again). I find bfing relatively easy - sorry! My boobs are massive though - currently an F cup - so I figure they were made for this Not to say I haven't had my problems. DS2 gave me cracked and bleeding nipples and I use to cry at every feed with him - not to mention he use to feed hourly until three months, two hourly overnight, and then two hourly when he was a bit older, three hourly overnight! He was a piggy. I just figure it's such a short time in our lives and try to enjoy it as much as possible.
Tegam, at forgetting Molly's stats - I do that with Josh. I just figure there is no more room in my brain to remember that kind of information... although I've been asked so many times now I think I almost remember... maybe
Miz, K's gained so much weight - that's great! It's likely that the one-hourly feeds WILL end, but who knows when? As I mentioned to Isadora, DS2 fed hourly through the day and two hourly through the night until he was 3 months old. I was totally exhausted, but it was worth it because he got really sick and ended up in hospital at 3 months. The doc told me that he recovered so quickly because a) he was such a big boy for his age and b) he was breastfed and breastfed a LOT. I've never regretted sticking with it and soon after 3 months he slowed his feeds down a bit and then a bit more after that.
To answer your question, YES, bf bubs are generally hungrier because breast milk is easier for them to digest so it goes through them faster.
Brave boy, getting his needles and doing okay. We'll probably go for ours on Monday. I usually go with DH because I can't stand needles myself, but I think it will be too difficult for the five of us to all go!
Crumpet, are they re-checking Summah's hearing for a particular reason? Josh refused to go to sleep for his test too, even though he was long overdue.
Us: Well, 5am wouldn't be a bad time to start the day if it was the first time you're up. Unfortunately, not the case for me this morning. I think the humidity got to poor Josh and he was up for a feed at 2am which is early for him and then again at 5. DS2 was up at 5:30 and DS1 up at 6am. Ah the joys! i got a late night SMS last night informing me of a last-minute meeting at DS1's school today though so it might be a good thing that I'm up so early. I will have to get us all ready (I can usually cheat with myself and have a shower later in the day) so that I'm presentable for the meeting. So tired though, I hope they don't expect me to be presentable AND coherent! I'm not looking forward to corralling DS2, keeping Josh happy and trying to concentrate on what's going on at the same time!
My older boys are 3 and 2. I am breastfeeding and fed the other two until they were 11 months (self weaned) and 14 months (I weaned him so I could get pg again). I find bfing relatively easy - sorry! My boobs are massive though - currently an F cup - so I figure they were made for this
Not to say I haven't had my problems. DS2 gave me cracked and bleeding nipples and I use to cry at every feed with him - not to mention he use to feed hourly until three months, two hourly overnight, and then two hourly when he was a bit older, three hourly overnight! He was a piggy. I just figure it's such a short time in our lives and try to enjoy it as much as possible.
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