Hello ronshar . Funnily enough I was going to ask tonight whether anyone was using a dummy or not (didn't have a hand free to type, but having been in bed an hour I've just got back up as can't sleep for coughing). I'm neither pro nor anti dummy (except for older children who use them all day long), but dd would never take one, so it became a non issue for us, and my boob became her dummy for life . We've tried ds with a dummy a few times over the last week or so, but he doesn't seem to want one either. How do you get them to take them?!
I might have misled you re my illness ronshar (and others), as I said that I thought it was turning into sinusitis, and then didn't clarify that it hadn't. I still have a cold and slightly blocked but runny nose (how do they manage to be both at once?!), but the problem is my chest/cough. It is so severe that I cough almost constantly when lying down, and it then makes my throat hurt, and my tummy/sides ache too. The antibiotics have (as usual) given me an upset tummy too, just in case I hadn't found enough to moan about!
On a positive note though, dd's new bedroom is now finished and ready for furnishing. Little pic on my profile that we took for her 'show and tell' at school today. She told them that it was her new bedroom and that her baby brother was going to have her old room. We hadn't broached that with her, so were really pleased that she mentioned it quite happily herself .
All your talk of painful nipples and feeds has reminded me of the similar pain that I had early on in my pregnancy, when I was feeding dd. Makes me wince for you all ladies, and thankful that that's at least one problem that I don't have now.
I do seem to have had a very sudden and very severe dip in supply over the last day or two, which is worrying me slightly. Not because I don't think I can get it back, but because it probably means a few extra sleepless nights, and I don't know exactly what's caused it.
I did manage to make it out to do something for myself today, and got my hair cut. Dh came with me so that he could carry ds around for the 45 mins that I was in there, before we then went to pick up dd.
myjob - sadly there's no-one who can take the dc for the 'hours between feeds' because there aren't hours between feeds for us. He still feeds at least every couple of hours day and night, with only an occasional exception, which can't be predicted. Not really anyone to take him anyway. In-laws are too old to cart him about in a carrier, and he won't go in a pushchair, and if they stayed in the house with him then I'd hear his crying and wouldn't settle. That's aside from the fact that they'd expect tea and chat if they came over .
Right, ds just woken (dh was holding him), so better go do another feed. Apols for epic post!