hi all

sleepy - hope you manage to clear the blockage, I had recurrent mastitis with A and it wasn't fun. Antibiotics 4 times, and finally got put onto ultrasound therapy when she was 8 months, never had a problem after a few sessions of that. Hopefully it won't get to that for you, but keep it in mind as I'd explored so many avenues (even had visual ultrasounds to check for reasons for constant blockage) then the clinic nurse mentioned she'd read a recent article about u/s therapy and it was the solution for me. I fed A happily after that till she weaned at 14 months. Sorry to digress! Don't think the cabbage leaves do anything for blockage, just help with engorgement. Oh and my right boob was bigger than left the entire time I was bf A, then they went back to the same when I stopped feeding. Now the same is happening. I guess my right either makes more milk than the left or isn't as good at draining. I used to think it was how A sucked but obviously it's me!

Baths - we bath or shower everyday too. It's part of A's bedtime routine so we started it with E from day 1. Hopefully she'll figure out that it means bed Last 2 nights we've only had 1 feed in between 8pm and 6:30am so maybe it's working!

Still bleeding very slightly but almost stopped I think. Fingers crossed! It's weird because I only had 2 cycles in between having A and getting pregnant with E, as A weaning happened about the same time as I fell pregnant. I'm not used to buying pads!

Settling - I'm having a bit of trouble settling E without using the hugabub or walking in the pram. She doesn't just drift off if I put her down drowsy but awake like all the books suggest lol. I know they're all different, and A needed teaching to self settle fairly harshly as she was a VERY awake baby, but any suggestions of things that work for you would be great!

Hope you're all having a good w/e.