ellasmummy how much did your princess weight at birth? I'm sure the real estate will understand why the house isn't how it usually is.

Lactation cookies I made my first batch and they didn't taste fabulous. Cetainly good enough to eat as I ate all the ones I made (only 5) I think I will use a different butter as they didn't spread instead they looked more like rock cakes.

JJ sounds like we have been in a similar boat with expressing and unsettles bubs. What weight was Elise at birth?

Well I have been quiet as things went pear shaped a few days ago. Poor J was getting sleepier and sleepier and not draining the boob properly despite feeding for long periods. Hence the engorgement I had on Day10. Anyway that night my milk just vanished. I went from been hard as a rock to softer then playdoe. Then she lost weight (still not back to her birth weight) so the midwife came around (whom was hopeless) told me to bottle feed. So unimpressed. Anyway obviously with no milk I had to give some formula for a little while but we haven't given any in 24hrs now. So there is concern J has an undiagnosed cardiac condition which is why she is so sleepy and not feeding well because she tires so quickly with lack of oxygen especially with exertion. Which has lead to her not draining the boob. So now I am expressing and bottlefeeding EBM so she doesn't have to work as hard with a squeezy bottle so she doesn't have to work very hard to get it. I offer the boob first just so she remembers she is suppose to be a booby girl, then bottle feed her then she goes back on the boob for comfort. On top of this she has had very runny poo (like 15dirty nappies a day) and her wet nappies were minimal. Then she vomits alot. The formula helped clog her up a fraction (only 7 dirty since 3pm yesterday which is excellent compair to before) It seems like what ever she gets orally only comes straight back out one of the ends. She is weighed again tomorrow and if she isn't up in weight she will be admitted to paeds for investigations. She put on 40grams in a week. We are aiming for a very minimum of 50grams in 48hrs and that still doesn't get her to her birth weight. This is going to be a very long process and the expressing isn't going well. Where I live the only breast pumps are the avent hand one or tommee tippee which I have in the hand which sucks. Or should I say doesn't suck. I only get 50mls out at a time. Which I must say is better then I was getting 2days ago. I've half excepted it now but for a few days I have been such a mess. I BF my others for the 2yr mark and now J isn't thriving. My milk supply is also dismal with her not getting much and expressing just doesn't cut it with my crap tommee tippee hand one. No wonder I can't get much out. I was getting 250mls with my first baby so a measley 50mls is very disheartening. Oh well its up on the 15mls I was getting to start with. I'm on motilium and drinking as much as a racehorse, trying to do all the right things for milk production (including over induldging in the lactation cookies) I will be a complete mess is J's weight isn't up tomorrow. I want to weigh her now to see if we are heading in the right direction but that means going to work and having to answer a million questions when I don't want to. Arrr everything was going so great initially. My Poor baby.

Anyway thats why I haven't been around for a few days.