Congrats on the growth spurt Lennied. Look after those nips now!
AQ but for you on the feeding. Hope things are easier with him on bottles. You have done so well to get this far, would be enough of a challenge with 2 easy feeders.
Castles do tell us more about the career!
Jabber hope the boys get better soon.
My boy is the snot monster from snot land again. Had a temp today too, which I only noticed half way through the morning when he had a friend over to play. Ooops. He was rather more reluctant than usual to share toys. Any attempt to touch toys by the other boy was met by cries of "noooooooo!" even if over the other side of the room Ds did provide me and half of Durham with great amusement this afternoon though with a spectacular public tantrum after I made him leave the ELC with its temtpting array of toys. Cue ds throwing himself to the floor and crawing back towards the shop screaming for all he's worth.
dd and feeding. Hmmm. Well her latch is terrible as she has been snotty most of her life so she doesn't form a good seal and gulps a lot of air. I think that is why she prefers to feed lying down as she finds it easier then to have one side of her mouth open. I think that is starting to improve a little as sometimes when she comes off my nipple is elongated like they get from feeding. Mostly you can't even tell she's been feeding (does that make sense?). She hates, hates hates the letdown and screams at it, gags, splutters, coughs etc and it is so hard to persuade her to keep feeding after that (I do have a strong letdown so I can sympathise with her as it generally involves 3 or 4 jets that reach half way across the room when she comes off). She prefers the left to the right, even lying down to feed I have to be on my left hand side, she will then accept the right breast but will not feed the other way round. Sometimes, maybe once a day, I manage a feed sitting up (always on the left breast) but even then she bobs on and off constantly, she never gets a good sucking rhythm going, it is gulp gulp off, gulp, splutter off. She fed so well in the first week or so of her life! I am at the stage where I just can't feed her out of the house as she just screams and splutters and I shoot milk everywhere (I have got other people, it is not funny!). Obviously this makes it very hard with ds as I can't always manage to force enough down her to make her happy. I did try her on expressed the other day and she took a little but I am reluctant to give more until I've go ther sorted even though expressed when out could make that part easier.
Her tongue doesn't look heart shaped or anything though it doesn't feel like she gets it in the right place when latching. She doesn't do the stiff as a board reflux thing and is perfectly happy after a feed/after I give up, if I dare to offer the right breast while sitting up she is liable to start kicking off before she has even triggered the letdown!
Right rant over, I am off to give dh a token snuggle before heading to bed. Poor bloke feelng neglected I think, I went to bed at 7.45 yesterday! Bad weekend! Dh is getting all smothering with affection, can't walk past him without him stopping me for a cuddle or kiss. Sure sign of feeling neglected! Trouble is it just makes me annoyed "I am trying to put the washing away and sit down stop getting in my way!"