Morning all!
Right lets try and remember everything you all said!
So glad to hear so many others are having this revolting witching hour - or hours! Wyatt had his 6 week check yesterday am and the gp said that some babies are just too hungry to be breastfed exclusively for much more than 4-6 weeks - its not something that can be fixed its just one of those things. So now I am mega confused as the gp we saw was quite pro formula in Wyatt's case.....she did say that he'd had the best of me already but then you read stuff like nic found in the red book about their immunity etc and that is really scary. Thing is he's had a bottle now on medical advice (can't remember if I told you but I had a little accident a few weeks ago when he was abotu 3.5 weeks old and I wasn't allowed to breastfeed for 48 hours
) so I've already screwed with his immunity. God this is so HARD! Why is it such a nightmare - and why can't health professionals all sing off the same song sheet! I was so pro sticking with the boob after going onto babyusa's thread but after seeing the gp yesterday I now wonder if I'm doing more harm than good by being so stubborn about it.
Nic - I wish I could get into an expressing routine like you have - I think you have the whole feeding thing totally licked - Alanna gets the best milk and you can get some kind of schedule thing going on.
Cherie - cannot believe Kyle is sleeping through - you lucky girl! And well done on keeping up with the breastfeeding - I understand how you feel re the sore boobs at night but I wonder if you keep expressing then your boobs will keep producing if you see what I mean? If you don't feed at night then after a few days your boobs will think "oh we don't need to produce night feeds anymore" and will stop - does that make sense?
God a big black cloud has just arrived - its got so dark I have to put the light on!!!!
Loocy - I am pleased you have the spur to go on - I hope I can too! Its so hard though isn't it? I don't know about you but I just feel so inadequate when he's cluster feeding ALL evening - I mean I have DS1 to consider and his behaviour incidently is diabolical lately. Even school have said he's a total shit right now!! Nightmare.
Oh and I am finding infacol a pain in the arse - you have to use it every feed and not miss a single one for it to have the desired effect - and sometimes at 2am i just forget!
Nat - I am sorry your dad is feelign so poo - ((hugs)) - holiday sounds lovely idea. Good news the 6 week check went well - I have to go back as their is a discrepancy with the weights - bizarrely somehow on the GPs scales he had lost weight in kilos but gained weight in pounds WTF
so i have to go back again next week to see what happens then - either her scales are wrong or the health visitors scales/conversion was wrong last week. So there is a possibility he's lost weight. If thats the case I'm following you and getting him on the formula - no arguments!
Rach-jade - as i said up there somewhere - DS1 is VILE at the moment. I feel so bad - and I'm with you - sometimes I just have to put Wyatt down so I can deal with DS1 - he must feel really put out poor little love.
I'm really struggling with this decision - breast is free and apparently really wholesome but after a formula bottle he is less sick and more settled - no cribbing and sleeps for longer too - hellish. Right off to try and express some milk - I don't understand how all these people are getting milk to freeze - I can't keep up with milk to feed let alone freeze!!!!!!!
off to "see" babyusa again - get some inspiration!
Lots of love to all I've missed xxxxxxxxxxxx
Me 31
DP 25
DS1 - 5
DS2 - Born 22.5.08
. All she did was suggest I use Infacol 
