it has got easier. DS has put on 4lbs in 6 weeks, and grown 3 inches. He's got these gorgeous little chubby knees!
[babymoon emoticon]
Thanks so much to everyone who was around in the first week of August when I was on here all hours of the day and night in a terrible mess.
Your support (plus the lactation consultant, plus getting the tongue tie snipped, plus DH taking over everything else so I could be glued to the sofa and baby) has made it work. I even started back at work last week, (Mon, Wed and Fri) and have been able to send DS to nursery with bottles of EBM and have a stash in the freezer.
The 'where you BF or FF?' thread got me thinking about how little support my mum got when she tried to BF my older brother, and how she then FF her next two kids. I've no idea how long DS and I will BF, I've already had thrush (ouch) and been rendered completely exhausted by 2-day-clusterfeedy growth spurts, but I wanted to get to 6 weeks and in the past 10 days it's got easier. He goes longer between feeds, he takes less time to feed, and he's smiling and gurgling at me, (albeit with very pointed looks at the boob when he wants it) - I feel less like his food source and more like someone he wants to have around. . . so I think we'll keep on going for quite a while. BFing is now the convenient way to feed him (we're out and about a lot), and also a lovely snuggly way to remind myself I'm not a terrible mother for abandoning him, cos he's sooo pleased to latch on when he comes back from the daycare, and we just hang out together all evening.
aah, this got long 
Thanks for your support, was what I meant to say. MN can claim a percentage of the credit for me BFing this baby, and probably my subsequent ones. Yay for you all! :)