Due April 2009 - Chapter 32: Shake your pom poms, Shake your pom poms, Shake your pom poms!!!

[BabyBolat]

Hope no one minds I gave Nutty the vote after her epic birth!

Smear tests are very important...I think they do them either 3 or 6 months after a birth...if you're due one that is

Thank you for all your advice everyone got myself some lansinoh and also some kamillosan cream which lovely lady in superdrug recommended its sooo soothing, would defo recommend to any of you boobfeeders

Did the hand expressing to and it helped a lot on my big swollen boob Thank you guys, bleu that looks really sore, could you go to your labour ward tomorrow or ring MW, sorry if someones already said that havent read page or responses. i know MW's at hospital when i went said go back anytime day or night if you worried and they have an emergency breast feeding number too that goes to MW's on labour ward.

Putting some new pics on sorry again that i havent been on here much lately, im just infatuated with my little man and having DP off work and uni we making most of it

Thanks nutty, we were on that site and feel it slightly inconclusive which is why I'm on here now...

I've been discharged from the mw's already...but perhaps I could call them still, don't know what else to do...

defo still ring them, they'll know what to do

god nutty im just so in love with him, me and dp never been so loved up either, i didnt realise i could possibly be this happy, could screeeeeaammm!! ive totally forgot all the pain, its irrelevant now, id do it again tomorrow!

((((((((((Bleu))))))))))

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Have a mentioned that I HATE bf?
I really truly do! It's torture. And I put myself through it because I feel a have to

Bleu - You don't have to BF. If it is really causing you distress then stop. Looking at when your baby was born, you have given it a go for a month and the first few weeks are the most important for giving the baby immunity from infection etc. It isn't for everyone and you shouldn't feel pressurised into doing it. You might all feel a lot more content and relaxed if you swap to a bottle. Your boob does look really sore - Good luck..

Bleu my mum says to tell you she was just like you, absolutely hated it and got so sore and dreaded everytime i cried to be fed, She did it for just 3weeks and stopped and i turned out okay

Like tarte says its that first milk that's got all the really good stuff in then its just basically milk. Switch to bottle if you feel that's right chic, plus Megan might pick up on stressed mummy vibes every time you feed her and are in pain. Whatever feels best for you is best for her (((((hug))))

Springy - I agree with Boff that they are all the same. I went to see a counsellor at Uni and she was painfully textbook. No matter what I said she tried to unearth some sexual abuse that never happened. I was angry at first but ended our last session by laughing in her face. It did me wonders to realise what charlatans these people can be.

Lauren - Your pics are gorgeous.

I'm terribly stubborn... I hate not being able to get this 'right'

Well, we think we figured out some of the problem for last night's screaming... Dh made quesidillas last night and had made his super spicey... so much so that the kitchen filled with pepery air and I had to close off the rest of the house so not to be fumigated (sp?)... well when Meg was having troubles last night with me DH of course took her...but he hadn't changed his clothes or anything...
AND this morning when DH went to the toilet he .ahem. found he still had pepper on his hands...so when he was consoling Meg and had used his finger to soothe her...it was not so soothing...
I've bathed her (by myself as Dh still says he's his hands are a bit 'hot') and put her in new clothes direct from the line outside...and no more screaming 'sigh'
Still have the blister problem... but at least Meg's not screaming bloody murder this morning...so hopefully mom can get some sleep now...

Oh, and while I was feeding last she poo'd SO much that the bottom half of her pjs went from a lovely white to golden yellow color... so maybe constipation was an issue too?

Bleu, its not that you're getting anything wrong, it is bleeding painful!! Megan has benefited massively from the time you've breastfed so far you should be proud. im no expert but i think she'll be more affected if youre forcing yourself to do it but in pain, iyswim?? they pick up on everything. you havent failed at all, long as she's fed its not really a big deal how Probably was the pepper lol bless her, spicy baby!! glad she not deafening you this morning

Thank you puzzle, we have never took so many photos as we have this week. i started writing my birth story this morning but its such a blur, might get it on paper before i type it. i was so drugged up could of flown to moon and back and not know about it!! good times =p

Thanks Lauren I rationally know that you're right and speaking perfect sense...it's my emotions etc. which block such things a bit and make me feel like I 'ought' to be able to sort this out because I'm a competant and capable woman who needs and wants to bf my lo...But I may not be able to carry on if this continues I agree.

So DH has noticed when I was laying down that the underside of my breasts are covered with a rash of some sort...(which of course I've not seen/picked up on because it's on the underside)

I swear I am so sick and tired of the ongoing saga which started 10 months ago. I really would love to just wake up one morning and put on some clothes...any clothes...without thinking about how they'll bother me or how I need them to protect the overly sensitive parts of my body... and I want to feel normal...and happy and healthy again...

Bleu, how awful for you xx No further advice, but I really hope you can get it sorted. If you want to, that is. There's no shame in FF at all! Has she been checked for tongue tie?

Nutty, your DH is clearly mad I definitely want at least one more, so can't just send DH off for the snip yet (because yes, it will be him having that operation, not me ). It is tempting at times, though.

Puzzle, your experience of a counsellor seems even more bizarre! I think they must go into the profession in pursuit of gossip, not because they want to do anything helpful.

Bleu - I felt exactly the same. When I gave up on BFing I was in tears on and off for a day because I was so upset about not doing the best for my baby. I really hope that you sort your problems out, because it's what you want.

However, I think 'competence' is an interesting word - everyone has different competences and with my fully 'engorged' (well slightly) breasts STILL fitting into a B cup, leaking nowhere and not even really sore I'm not sure that BFing is mine. I think that what makes it really difficult is that I'm not really used to failing at things. It's also quite hard reading some of the posts on here because although I am really pleased that BFing is going well for others I am quite . That makes me sound insane and quite out of order sorry everyone.

Bleu - try some Canesten cream on under-boob rash. Sounds like it may be intertrigo (basically sweat rash, common under the boobies!). How goes the blister?

Brett -not insane to feel . Perfectly natural. If everyone else appears to be managing perfectly well with something, you feel a bit of a fool if you are struggling yourself. Right now I feel like crazy neurotic mother who cannot put her baby down, and v.jealous of people who's LOs will sleep somewhere other than Mummy's arms!