Here I go for a second time trying to reply. I replied last night and then accidentally closed my window. Lol so 2nd time lucky?

KittyK, Hi! Nice to meet you! Your little guy sounds amazing!! Bf-ing and home already, what a champ! You must be so proud. And what a gorgeous name as well.
And I hear you on the nappies lol. Xavier is the same, clean one goes on and within minutes he's rivaling his daddies farts LOL.

Cakester, Being a newbie to all this I unfortunately dont have an suggestions, but I hope you can get some answers at your doc appointment next week. Good luck

Hope, I'm sorry your having feeding issues hun Its fantastic that your trying to find a solution, I hope the LC can give you some great advice. And I agree with M+M, dont beat yourself up too much. Your doing everything you can to continue BF, its not like your just easily giving up on it. And if you do need to bottle feed, its great that you can still give her breastmilk

M+M, I suck at hand expressing haha. I got about 20mls the other day doing it, but I think I lost about the same running down my boob because I couldnt position the bottle properly lol. I have a cheap manual pump from kmart now, and yesterday I was able to get almost 50mls from one breast after a feed from that side. Its pretty awesome for a manual, I wish I could afford an electric though lol.

Lisa, Great to hear Lucy is doing well I find the same with co-sleeping, I dont get such a great sleep from having to stay on the one side all night. I do love it though lol


Afm, Xavier had such an awesome sleep last night. He went down about 9.30 after a small feed, and didnt wake until 2.30! Quick feed, then he was down again until 6. He had a massive feed then and came back to bed with me as he got the hiccups and was getting a little annoyed with them lol. We then slept in until 8.30. I feel great this morning lol.

His starting to get a little fussy in the evenings. Its nothing bad, he just **** farts around when feeding. Goes on, then off, and on, then off etc lol. He'll get frustrated and annoyed, and then suddenly he's on properly and fine lol. Last night at the 2am feed he would not attach properly and was starting to get really upset so I had to put him in the football hold. Worked a charm lol.
And he'll have periods where he wants to comfort suck. Which I've tried to give him a dummy for but he wont take it LOL! He'll spit it out or gag on it. I dont know why he suddenly wont take one (his had one twice now and took them fine then), but I'm not going to force it. Offer every now and then, he may take it when he gets a bit older. It'd just be a little handy when he wants to comfort suck.

I had to buy a new breast pump yesterday. I kind of ruined the first one I bought, by boiling a piece I wasnt suppose to and it bent all out of shape Hahaha. I need to express a little for comfort atm. Does anyone know if you can mix breastmilk expressed at different times? Like can I put some that I've expressed today with the amount I expressed yesterday? Lol thats probably a stupid question, but I will play the NEWBIE card


Oooooooooo DP's family have annoyed the crap out of us. MIL is in a mental health hospital as she has bad depression, and we're expected to drive over 3hrs (its 3hrs WITHOUT a baby in tow) to see her for her birthday this wed or thurs. We werent even asked! Just told we were going. SIL rang DP "Can you make it to where mum is for her birthday?" DP: "I dont think so" SIL:"Well you have to as FIL told her you were coming and she's now told everybody".
SO PO'ed! We're not going though. I am not comfortable taking my 2week old newborn to a place where I dont know who could be sick and have to have a bunch of random strangers goo-ing and gaa-ing over him. Luckily DP feels the same. MIL wont take the news well that we aren't going. But if they cant understand that its a lot to ask of a 2 week old baby to travel over 6 hours in a car in ONE day and be fine with being smothered by MIL and her random friends, then that isnt my problem.

Haha sorry for the rant, they have just really bugged me!

And wow. Sorry for the novel!