our little guy is doing really well, after a slow start to feeding & a little bit of jaundice. he is a little baby (2.78 kgs at birth, dropping to 2.56 kgs a few days later). perfect in every way of course . hospital stay was really good, made good use of the breast feeding room until I got a unusually opinionated/pushy midwife/lactation consulatant who made me cry... then proceeded to tell me not to cry bc baby doesn't need that sort of bodily liquid, what it needed was breast milk. I think I just had the hormone drop/baby blues bc really I was crying for no reason at all. lasted 2 days and would just pop up at any time during the day, a bit funny really bc I would just be going about my business & then start to cry. odd. breast feeding has gotten off to a real difficult start, cracked, inflamed nipples making it unbearable to breast feed on one boob. ended up at a day stay program Tuesday, which was a life saver. perfected my latch & got a medicated cream for right boob as even lactation consultant couldn't get a painless latch going for me and suspected I might have a slight infection behind nipple. it even hurt too much to breast pump, my dh & I were hand expressing a feed... took us aaaages to get 25 mls. anyway, things are looking up & im glad I stuck with it. well worth the tears, exhaustion & worry that I might not be giving my little guy enough. even managed to breast pump yesterday & today & give a 10 min feed of the sore boob. sorry im going on about it, but I feel I have really jumped a massive hurdle with this breast feeding thing!
my little guy is feeding quite well, still gets sleepy & often I have to take him off, lay him on the floor/change nappy to wake him up a bit & try again. sleeping 3-4 hour blocks, and has done a couple of 5 hour blocks over past couple of days. its tiring, but we are managing. we have got our feed/settle routine down from 2 hours, to 1 hour - so we are patting ourselves on the back with that too! recovery wise, I am healing really well, ive been surprised. there's not much I cant do, other than lift heavy stuff & I am thankful im not in any real pain. had first mchn visit yesterday & he is putting on the required weight (25-30 grams per day), which is a relief considering the difficulties we've had breast feeding.
still cant quite believe he's mine & there is a lot of starring at him & cuddling him off to sleep. he sleeps in a moses basket next to our bed at night, and in the lounge area during the day & doesn't seem bothered by the noise around him which makes pottering around easy. anyway, better go & have a shower. I hope you're all doing really well, I have been reading occasionally but must admit have been a bit awol since he was born. understandably...! xx
. hospital stay was really good, made good use of the breast feeding room until I got a unusually opinionated/pushy midwife/lactation consulatant who made me cry... then proceeded to tell me not to cry bc baby doesn't need that sort of bodily liquid, what it needed was breast milk. I think I just had the hormone drop/baby blues bc really I was crying for no reason at all. lasted 2 days and would just pop up at any time during the day, a bit funny really bc I would just be going about my business & then start to cry. odd. breast feeding has gotten off to a real difficult start, cracked, inflamed nipples making it unbearable to breast feed on one boob. ended up at a day stay program Tuesday, which was a life saver. perfected my latch & got a medicated cream for right boob as even lactation consultant couldn't get a painless latch going for me and suspected I might have a slight infection behind nipple. it even hurt too much to breast pump, my dh & I were hand expressing a feed... took us aaaages to get 25 mls. anyway, things are looking up & im glad I stuck with it. well worth the tears, exhaustion & worry that I might not be giving my little guy enough. even managed to breast pump yesterday & today & give a 10 min feed of the sore boob. sorry im going on about it, but I feel I have really jumped a massive hurdle with this breast feeding thing!
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