Kentishgal poor little one, that rash in the heat must be annoying for her. Sounds like you're in really good hands. Does the heel prick test pick up things like milk protein issues, I wonder? Good they will keep monitoring!
My BF has been a bit of a disaster. Supply ok even though I lost a lot of blood, but feeding was so so painful after maybe the first feed (on morphine!). It was like needles in the whole boob, or like electricity, not just mild discomfort. Umpteen number of MWs all pressed and pressed me to keep trying, telling me to count to ten etc, over the 4 days in hospital. I was frequently in tears by the end of each of these interventions. Then when I said it was damaging and can we stop, they just collectively shrugged their shoulders and were like "ok well you're on formula now". One even said it's like giving my baby McDonald's. 🙄 But I did have breast milk so bought a double pump and have been expressing about 300 ml AM and 200ish ml PM then bottle feeding that. I'm kind of surprised by how much there is, given that my body was so ill equipped for everything pregnancy related. Problem is it's v time consuming to pump this, takes about 45 mins each time. She regained the 4% of weight she'd lost by day 10 and is now going from strength to strength weight-wise.
Before being discharged from hospital I did insist on a tongue tie appt, which we had w a consultant earlier this week. Consultant said 80% tie, feeding will have been "like being stapled" and no one should have pressed it if they'd looked properly. 🙄 They corrected it on the spot (that was scary and they told me not to watch since I cried for ages after she got her BCG!). She's been great since - no more leakages when bottle feeding and the odd time she's accepted the boob it's not painful at all. But she's understandably not v keen on it any more after only 2 days boob then 3 weeks of bottle. It's harder work for her. I also have a marginal preference for bottle because I can see how much she's taking in and DH can feed her too. We'll keep trying the boob in the evenings but I'm now wondering how much longer I can keep up the pumping w DH back at work. The whole BF drama has been really unpleasant and I've been really knocked by the whole thing, but getting some perspective back again now.
Jxtina completely with you on the nights! We also had some decent ones early on, similar pattern to yours. Now it's a lot more gruelling somehow. Wonder if the sleep deprivation also has a cumulative effect by this point. Have also been watching for the baby carrier weight milestone, which we hit yesterday. Though I'm now quite used to the pram as a walking aid! Good to hear about the eye, everything like that is so scary when they are so tiny.
We've found Ewan the sheep pretty helpful at night, btw. I switch him on towards the end of a night feed then pop her in the cot with abut 10'more mins to go. She seems to mind being put down a bit less that way.