dimb - I like your book tip re having one for the older child to read whilst you are feeding the younger one. We used the TV to much the same effect . Slightly less nutritional than a book, but doesn't seem to have done any lasting damage, and we have managed to cut back to hardly any tv again now. Another suggestion I've seen on here is to have a basket of 'special' toys that only come out when the baby is feeding.
Those of you who have commented on the baby being more distracted at feeds around 4/5 months or later - have you tried using a breastfeeding necklace? I didn't have one with dd, but with ds I got one like this and it worked beautifully. He still got distracted when out and about and maybe 7 or 8 months, but the necklace definitely helped to hold his attention before that, and it also encouraged better nursing manners I believe, as he has never been a twiddler like dd was.
dimb - I'd like to pick up on your point that your ds's didn't give you enough time to build up supply between feeds, and also on filly's success at managing to schedule feeding at 3 or 4 hourly intervals. I know many a person, myself included, who would be at that, but I don't want you to take from it that it's the norm, as it certainly isn't. I think that this article is worth a read - just skip any techy bits about the study which are more detail than you need/want .
fwiw, my dd 'fed' for up to an hour at a time, and then wanted to feed again an hour later, but with hindsight I think that she was a sleepy feeder and was doing little comfort sucks rather than actual feeding sucks for some of that time (it was about the only time she did sleep tbh!).
My ds was also a very frequent feeder, rarely leaving more than 1-2 hours between feeds, especially at night (grrr!), but his feeds were quicker and he was more alert during them.
Both gained weight well (despite it taking us 16 weeks to realise that the reason that dd screamed round the clock was because she was milk intolerant, one of the common symptoms of which is failure to thrive!), and were/are ninety-something centile (having been 9lbs and 8lb4oz at birth), so don't feel that a big hungry baby can't be satisfied by breast alone woofie.
I couldn't pump much milk either. Got a bit off in the early days with dd, but she refused a bottle and I had to dump it all when we discovered her milk intolerance, as I had been consuming dairy during the period that the milk had come from, so I never bothered again after that!
It really isn't much indication of supply though. In general a baby will be much more efficient than a pump, though sometimes the pump might be better (eg if baby had tongue tie so couldn't draw off milk well).
dimb - is there a la leche league meeting near you? Pretty sure that they are worldwide, and you should be able to take your boys to the meetings too - children are welcome at all of the ones that I go to over here.
madamefrecke - sorry, you asked a question the other day about arnica which I haven't answered yet. Yes, it's def ok to take whilst still pregnant. Ideally one should start a week before giving birth (how nice if we all actually knew when that was!), but longer won't hurt (I must have done at least 2 weeks last time). I seem to recall it being 2 tablets a day, though you can get them in diff strengths, so let me see if I can find what was recommended last time and get back to you shortly on that. Then take lots in labour (I don't think that you really can o/d on most homeopathic stuff tbh) and continue afterwards as necessary, generally for a week or so I guess.
LaT - we have the baby bjorn bouncer. We got it for dd, and ds used it too. I like that it lasts much longer than some baby bouncers, particularly given that I have such chunky babies, as mine would have been out of a lot of standard ones by 4 months due to their weight! They tended to use it when little, then go through a phase of not using it, and then use it again once bigger. In fact we had to swipe it away from dd and replace it with another chair a couple of months before ds arrived (she was 2.8 when he was born) so that she wouldn't think of it as hers any more!
sorry for long and rambling post, but hopefully there's something useful to someone in there!