indom I used a tens. It was fantastic at easing all the coughing related aches and pains when I was ill before going into labour. Used it in what must have been early labour and up until a couple of hours before Eddy was born, only took it off because combined with the high feeling the gas and air gave me it became an irritating tickle! Also found it good for after pains in the first couple of days at home while breast feeding, in hospital I wasn't bothered as had oral morphine a couple of times both days. I hiered mine from tesco, if there's one with a chemist near you they just had them on the shelf, I think it was £58, with £28.50 being refunded on return. I felt like I got my moneys worth. A friend of mine got one for lloyds pharmacy; ordered online for collection 48 hours later.
ffaux congratulations!
beaut good luck for the morning. I'm dreading dh going back to work and leaving me with the early morning breakfast shift, then tea and bedtime alone. It's lovely to have him home in the day, but not so great with the prospect of cluster feeds at dd's bedtime and how much trouble she can cause if she's too tired.
I had mil/gmil woes with dd. Best thing hands down I've done this time was put my foot down hard and say no visitors (basically no ils). I feel amazing having had time and privacy to establish breast feeding, not being presured to hand baby off to anyone and being able to sleep and eat whenever I need to. Mil and fil had a short visit with my dad while we were in hospital then today we all went out to mil's. Had one moment of needing to be firm with her to get her to hand Eddy back rather than rock him to sleep when he started to stir for a feed. Announcing my boobs were going to explode if left any longer was very effective. Gmil is in a strop through, as not welcome to visit us at home for varrious reasons and wasn't asked up to the hospital so made other plans this morning, dh is delighted as he doesn't have to deal with her drama.
On another note, itchy stiches have been driving me crazy since lunch time, so hard to sit still when trying to feed. Spent the evening sat on a disposable change mat letting the air get to them.
Health visitor coming tomorrow to do hearing test and play with my sling collection, made me her last appointment of the day so she can have a look at the internatonal slings I've aquired. Also have to ask her to check poor Eddy's skin, his peeling all over today in a way that just looks painful although he doesn't seem bothered, dd's toes were the only things that ever peeled.