Hiya,
Pooley, Sky and any other of you crazy cats back in the sack - good on you! I thought i'd be back to normal sooner but with an epi which took a long time to heal we waited quite a while. I have to say it was a lot less comfortable than i expected, i guess its all a bit tender inside still - hopefully wont take long to feel normal again - that is if we can pick the right moment, last time we tried T woke up and started crying - too hard!
Sanchez - god speed to you, V hating the pram and car must be difficult.

Taurean - will be interesting to hear about the silent reflux diagnosis - i understand that is really difficult to deal with Hope you can work on some solutions asap! It can get quite draining being home alone all the time. I hope you have a good circle of friends who can pop by, and we're always here online to listen. Also, great work on the feeding! What would be your advice to get supply up quickly - or at all! Isn't it funny how Izzy still woke at the same time regardless of the dreamfeed. My health nurse recommended we don't bother trying to do a night feed with Tadhg, because it interupts their sleep cycles and can make it harder to get back into a deep sleep - and they are so hard to wake up that you never get a good feed in anyway, or end up with wind later in the night from not burping etc. We tried it last night - he fed at 6:30, went down at 8pm, and woke at 5:30! I got straight up to feed as i was worried he'd be starving after that long, but if he does it a few nights in a row i'll be working on getting him to 6am. Or.. it may just be a fluke! Will see what happens tonight.


The health nurse also said all Tadhg's "symptoms" seem to point to milk intolerance, which i had actually considered but didn't realise he was so clearly intolerant. This includes spilling curdled milk a long time after a feed, slightly rough skin on his face and eyebrows, trouble digesting / gurgling tummy, crying in his sleep from wind, lots of gas!, lots of liquidy poo (at least every feed in our case). So i'm changing his formula to S26 which is apparently the best for milk intolerance, and cutting dairy from my diet (not excessive just no milk, cheese, yogurt etc). Looking forward to the results!

She also said a 10 week old baby should take 3-8 minutes to drain a breast, so leaving him there for 20 each side - no wonder he falls asleep and comes off really hungry and upset! I was feeling drained, he was tired, and all for not enough milk. I really don't know where my logic was - that i have less milk therefore should feed him longer!? Even in the 24 hours i've cut back to 10 minutes a side I feel much better about feeding, and he is happier!
So all in all it was a great health nurse visit!

Hope you other girls are coping with the demands of feeding so often and clingy babes - must be a stage they go through huh. Lucky they are so cute!

ps. almost forgot to add - T is now 4.7kg, yay! - but still in newborn nappies at 10 weeks old, infant diapers are coming soon...