Hello!
Catching up!
That's fantastic min! have you had a celebratory gin? That deserves one! don't you dare become one of those mad christmas mums - that thread was hilarious, the amount of stuff folk were buying! Also remember the 'Elf on the shelf' thing? What's that about??
mini poor baby :( that sounds rotten - at least that's them over with now hopefully?
wil getting back to sleep - I find brushing my teeth or doing something 'bedtime routine' like helps. Also reading a book.
pis are our babies in cahoots? Mine reeks! He's shitting every hour just now and his farts smell like death.
I ended up putting olive oil on B's dry skin - mw made this big thing about how it's not recommended but never actually said why, so I thought I'd just go ahead and do it. He hasn't combusted yet so I reckon we're ok.
My dm is here and is a god send. She is rocking B to sleep each time he wakes up too early and as a result yesterday I managed to feed every 3 hours instead of the top ups he normally requests. As a result he slept longer and was calmer and happier. Was still up with the straining pain at 6am but I was better able to cope with it now that I know it's quite normal, so I just took him out of crib and let him sleep on my tummy on his tummy. Today though is completely gone to shit. He's waking up all the time and wanting food - he's producing a fair amount of wind! I don't know how the heck he has room for any food.
I do feel a bit guilty as I'm just handing him to her each time, but I am knackered. My mum is being funny about him though - she's proper 'give me the baby!' obsessed. I had to ask her to step away from the pram in Boots today, because I wanted to push him myself for five seconds and she wouldn't let me! So glad she's here though.
fleur - I'm still miserably confused about the formula/expressing feed thing. I desperately want him to be able to take a bottle so that I can leave him occasionally but I'm terrified about supply dwindling if I do it every night. So I really don't know now what to do for the best. I really want to give him a bottle once a day - preferably the 10pm feed so that I can go to bed early when dh is here - but that's meant to be an important one for bf in terms of making them sleepy. I'm a bit :( about the whole thing because I've got the mother's guilt that I'll end up doing it wrong and having to finish bf earlier than intended. I was going to express after morning feed to give later in day. If I ask the health professionals they just go on about the supply and make me feel guilty.
Today he's cluster feeding and waking up often from naps and wanting food, so I'm exhausted. It's days like this when I feel like I want to knock bf on the head because of how tiring it is.