Scarlet, so glad you're starting to feel better. That's really good news. Am really hoping that the last few days of ABs pass quickly enough for you both so you can get you tummies back on safe ground. It's all little steps in the right direction isn't it. And talking of little steps, I had a google on the whole ankle thing. It seems (from dr google) that it can easily last a week or two after birth, and the two main things are keeping them elevated and drinking loads of water to flush everything through your system. However, I'd say if you're at all worried have a word with the mw next time she comes out (are you still under mw care?) even if they're not due a visit you could call them perhaps? Hope it starts to go down ASAP for you xxx
Scream yay for increased mobility but booo for your poor boobs still being sore!! Glad you had albeit lunch. It we be al nice once you can just get yourself out for a stroll without thinking anything of it
pomme no idea on the waking or not thing but I'd say we're in a similar position. Except at the moment ds2 will generally wake when we go to bed (at least partly because we disturb him moving him upstairs. But similar in terms of number of wakjngs. Once at our bedtime, once at 2-ish and once at say 5 ish.
My gut feel says it won't make any difference on the 7-7 thing? I'm assuming E will just drop the feeds (or increase the time between them) as and when he's ready? With ds1 I realised at about 8 weeks that he was just windy in the middle of the night (2-3 am ish) not hungry so stopped feeding him but was still dealing with his wind pain at that time for several weeks. (and feeding him made the wind worse). Once the wind began to ease at 12-13 weeks he could then go from 10ush to 6 ish. After a while we tried stopping the 10am waking and he had a few nights getting to 2, 3, 4 o click and then could do 7-6 or 7-7.
But DS2 isn't having the wind problems of his big brother, he's hungry when he wakes at this time of night so not sure when he'll start to go a bit longer between feeds. He was starting to eeek them out a bit (not on the scale of the Too household though!) but that seems to have stopped the last 3 or 4 days and he's reverted to every 3 hours max. Am hoping this is really a growth spurt......
Sorry that doesn't really answer your question but I guess my answer is dunno!
(obviously this is all academic as she'll just start doing 7-7 at 10w 5d anyway 
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