Crazy and Orenishii your discussion about whether to free a tongue tie has been interesting to read as I had this done for dd a week ago. Reading your thoughts has made me feel guilty all over again for putting her through it, because she definitely suffered because of something I chose to have done to her. (The guilt is a product of my own over-thinking brain, not of your discussion!) You have made me re-examine my reasons for deciding to have the procedure done, but that's a good thing because I feel positive about it overall. She had a poor latch which I could not have gone to any greater lengths to help her with over the last 10 weeks - I went to support groups and drop ins, 4 separate people came out to me, I read 2 entire books about bf (no easy feat with a newborn), I watched DVDs, I read websites and forums on the subject almost every night whilst feeding her, and I had phone support. I tried out every single bit of advice and none of this helped me to improve her shallow latch and hence make feeding more efficient for her and less painful for me, so when I realised she had posterior tongue tie (again after extensive research), getting it cut was a last resort. If that didn't make any difference then I would just have to accept the pain every 2hours - but I'm not sure how many more weeks I could have lasted. Having the tt cut was a hard decision and very traumatic for me and for her, dd was definitely in pain at the time and for a few days afterwards and I found that very hard to deal with and gave myself a very hard time over that being a consequence of my decision. But (there is a point to all this!) a week later, her feeding is so much better than it was before. She can now stay latched on most of the time instead of drawing back to her previous nipple-shredding shallow latch. Feeding has been transformed and is now something I am confident I can do long term. So, although it hurt her and I will forever feel bad about that, I have to admit it was the right decision for us as imho it will benefit her in the long term. It's nice to have realised that and I'm proud of myself for being strong and for all the lengths I went to in order to keep bf. (This is not a "thou shalt bf" rant, each to their own, I just had a gut feeling something was wrong, and fixable, and as I'm normally so hard on myself it's nice to feel good about finally fixing it!).
Sorry for all that blathering, must have needed to get that out there! The downside is that at nearly 11 weeks it's probably too late to try and introduce a bottle so DH can feed her but in another breakthrough, DH has realized that I would rather bf if it's possible, and be restricted by it, than ff so he can help (or risk introducing bottles of expressed and have her decide not to bf any more, as happened to a friend of mine).
7 hour sleep again last night 
. Instant outfit change for me when we woke up, milk from engorged boob everywhere 
. The triggers for a longer sleep seem to be a warmer than recommended room temp and distracting her in the evening rather than feeding her at the first sign of grizzliness. And possibly using the Colief correctly, although she was pretty windy and uncomfortable in the evening last night. Or maybe I just wore her out, we had a really full on day visiting friends then meeting nct girls for lunch (took a packed lunch to save money ), then I took her swimming at the gym and she had a bath with DH in the evening.
That was a very me me me post, hope you all have good days without interfering hvs or poorly babies.