The PESH are getting busy and looking out for a cluster diff!!

[pinkr]

blonderthanred, boy, born 26th October 2012.
FriendofDorothy, boy, born 14th December 2012.
QueenRollo, boy, born 21st January 2013.

Need dates:

Rollerbaby, No pink here, expecting boy due March 20th 2012
IveBeenExpectingYou (CockDodger), A very active baby girl, due March 28th 2012
Silver, hoping for an easier sneeze, due mid-July 2012
Starryeyedmole, regretting recently investing in scales
cakeandcava approaching walrus proportions, DC1 EDD 21/10/12

LazyMachine (38) DC1 EDD 9/2/13
CamelKnees (34) fat and fatigued DC2 EDD 22/04/2013
HaveALittleFaith (31), Faithlet arrived 14.04.13
fertilityFTW (34) date needed.
pinkr, (33), any day now!!, DC1 due 22/08/2013
Jethro (36) head in the sand Edd 071013
Frankel (32) nauseous and knackered Edd 4/3/14
Noks - info needed
Sinky - info needed

Done my best - apologies for any misinformation or omissions!

Poor you Jeff. Sounds really tough. Like faife says, you've done amazingly to get this far. I have no useful advice, but you have my utmost respect

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Thing is, BF is great...but with a poor latch it's incredibly difficult. Did you try nipple shields? I used the medula ones and they were our saving grace.

I def think your health and well being is must important...happy mum happy baby. You've done brilliantly to get this far and I totally get what you mean about the stress colouring the experience.

Ahhh Jeffers in which case I think you have done fucking amazing. There is no way I could hack all that expressing. It is just tedious.

I reckon you have to get to the point when you know you have done what you can and recognise that your physical and mental well being is more important than continuing with bfing. I think you have to reach that decision yourself though and be properly content with it.

Thanks Hags. The boob is slightly less angry after a 2 hour nap on the sofa (bliss) so I'm feeling more human.

I'm going to ask the GP about how to dry my milk up & then move to FF. I'd love to be able to give some breast milk but I don't think it's possible.

It sounds like you may need antibiotics Jeff. I was in the same situation with the early CS and TT but I am not sure I would have got through mastitis. You need to fix yourself so you can enjoy your lovely baby. All the best to you.

Little pink went down at 11and has only just woken up! ! That's the most sleep i've had in months! !

Hurrah for sleep pink!

I'm finding my hips are hurting at night, probably due to my sleeping position - I'm on my left side with a pregnancy support pillow around me, but my hips are taking all the strain and aching as a result. It could be that my mattress is too soft to support me properly and I need to shove a pillow under me. Anyone else dealt with this?

Frank ihad the exact same issue. Will be back later to explain...

Thanks Jeff, hope you manage to see a Dr today.

Frank- I came on here to ask much the same. My hips have been sore for a while but have eased with a looong pillow between my legs/feet.

But... Today my lower back has gone. Agony. Anyone tried pregnancy yoga/Pilates? Prepared to try anything...

I ended up buying a new mattress... Ours was 10+ yrs old so a bit saggy which didn't help.

Other than that, a fat cushion between the legs helped (I used the dream genii doubled over) to get the hips aligned.

I also did pg yoga which I highly recommend, not only did it help my back and hips, it was a brilliant way to spend a couple of hours each week just focused on me & the baby.

I've got a pregnancy pillow which I'm sleeping with between my legs. The problem is my left hip (the one I'm lying on), it's very stiff and sore when I wake up, like there's too much pressure on it. Might shove a pillow under it tonight to see if that makes a difference!

Can you not alternate sides Frank? I get woken by hip pain overnight, but it's my prompt to lug my pillow to the other side. Seems to stave off the worst of it. (But, maybe that's where the wrenched back ahead come from...)

Jup, glad to hear the yoga was good. When did you go (can you remember?). Ones near me seem happy to take you from 12/16 weeks to term. Will I be the only one not imminently birthing?! (Not that I care if it'll help..)

The advice says not to sleep on your right side though I can't remember why!

I thought it was not on your back (but I do wake up like that..) and left better, by not heard not right

Quick google. Lots of chatter, little data. Suggestions include keeping weight of uterus off liver and to improve circulation (I guess due to vc compression that means back is bad). Some random paper suggesting increased stillbirth risk in last days of pregnancy if you sleep other than on your left side. That appears to have been discredited, but haven't bothered reading myself.

I'll still be sleeping on my right- I'd not be able to walk otherwise.

Left is best because of blood flow and nerve stuff. Frank could it be SPD or PGP? It's worth speaking to your midwife.

I will mention it to her Faith but at the moment it doesn't feel like it's the joint. It eases off once I'm out of bed and disappears within an hour or so, it's just uncomfortable to wake up to!

Frank I ended up sleeping on a blow up mattress with a duvet underneath me as well as multiple pillows. - SSG being an engineer said it was all to do with displaced load. Basically your supporting an odd body shape & extra weight on one point of your body so it hurts. By 37 weeks it was like the princess & the pea bed

The left / right side thing I didn't worry too much about. I tried to go to sleep on my left side but frequently woke up because I needed to turn over due to the pain. I took 2 paracetamol before bed which helped too. You have all my sympathy because its painful & annoying when you only sleep for 90 mins at a time. Having a bath in the morning when I was on mat leave was good too.

Sinky that still birth paper was nonsense. My sis used it for her students as an example of how research should not be carried out. It freaked me out when I was googling so I asked her about it (she's a public health consultant) & she got on her soap box about it!!

Yup- looked shoddy even on first glance. I'm not fretting and will continue to sleep on my left and right!

I recommend pregnancy massage...I went every yep Weeks and it was 35 pounds well spent! Look for a qualified masseuse...I lay on my sides and she really worked the lower back and bum which is tight so leads to pain. Sports massage person should do it but the pressure needs to be really firm!

jeff how is the boob? Did you see a doctor?

Morning Faif. Yes, saw the doctor. He gave me the whole spiel about massage, hot flannels, baths blah blah blah.... I cried. He gave me some anti B's. told me to take them next time I had the flu like symptoms. I asked his advice for how to dry up my milk - he wouldn't give me any as he can't recommend moving to formula. But did say slowly reducing expressing would minimise the mastitis.