january babies are now riggling,giggling & crawling to keep us on our toes

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hi

dog i am here. non-stop cluster feeding this evening. N must have known it was Saturday night! But was like this last night too. Growth spurt? Hmmm.... hope everyone is having busy and fun weekends.

I am here too. I am very very though. Am having a bf crisis. Much as I love/hate it I never wanted it to end like this. Basically was away from 6pm weds until about 11pm Friday - so just over 48 hours and expressed as much as I could whilst away but as normally happens when I have to help DH my supply did drop off a bit on the second day. Wasn't really worried about it though. Got back and got DS in bed with me and he fed well at 2am and 5am this morning. He woke up full of cold, really bunged up and wasn't interested in bf until 12pm when he had a few sucks and gave up. I tried again at 3pm and again a few sucks and then not interested. At bedtime he was frustrated with not getting enough - my supply has severely dwindled today it seems and I gave in and gave him 5oz of ebm out of the freezer. I've just been in again to try and feed him and he's had a go but not the gushing feed I'm used to. I think this may be the end of the road if I'm not very careful. I think his cold, plus my period being due anytime plus teething is just adding up to a disinterested baby. My boobs have gone soft now and not at all like my normal bf boobs. I'm expressing but not really getting much at all - just a few drops. Nothing on the 9oz I was expressing yesterday. Surely nearly 9 months of breastfeeding can't be over in the space of 48 hours?

Think I'm going to copy and paste that in bf topic and see if anyone can help

I'm doing that as best I can Dog - am home alone here with them as DH still away until Monday. And DD ill so sort of stuck as brought DS in to bed with me and having to keep lying him on the floor whenever DD needs me. Need to work on the fluids though... thank you for the hugs, much needed.

lenni - am sure dog is right, it can't irretrievable after just 24 hours. ds will probably get his appetite back pretty swiftly if it's just a cold. sure there will be good advice in the bf section

stopped bf here three days ago, supply had dwindled becasue of impossibility of feeding while c was teething - she was trying to chew the milk out, which was both ineffective and painful. i am okay with it, i guess, never thought i'd keep going for 8 months. but she is quite annoyed with me, i think, and the little sad looks i'm getting are heart rending. hope she gets over it soon - i think it is irretrieveable for me now...

Oh Lenni huge hugs.

It will turn around for you, you are doing every thing right.

H has had an evening bottle of formula for 4 nights now. She takes 4-6 oz. Feels like begining of end of an era.

Hope you are ok with it Stripey, I guess some saddness is unavoidable for us. At one week or one year of bfing. We have all pulled off something brilliant though.

As have formula feeders of course! I don't want to sound like milk mafia!

I'm glad you are ok with it of a fashion Stripey, it is pretty inevitable that it'll happen sometime I guess and you have done amazingly.

I'm off now to retrive DS and go to bed again. I just spoke to DH who was very blase and not at all supportive and now I feel and Grrr

Oh Lenni [[[[hugs]]]]]]

ANd for you Dog, and your darling Mr A. Not. Your. Fault. even if there is an issue.

Oh Dog, it is nothing you have done. Hug him and squeeze him all you can though - soon enough he'll be telling you to stop being so soppy. I think you need to get some support with him now though, for your own peace of mind as much as anything else. I would start chasing every avenue - HV, GP and perhaps try and get referred both down the med route to a paed and the OT route if you can. Has he had the hearing test yet? If not I think it is worth chasing that - there are a few things you've said that make me think that needs ruling out.

I agree. Do what I did with Harriet when everyone was saying 'she'll grow out of it'. I simply nodded, smiled, made direct eye contact and said very clearly 'refer me now please'

It worked!

That might be the herald of a growth spurt too? Maybe he is on the brink of using lots more words? I don't know, just looking for explanations.

Get seen and seen until you feel heard. Although in reality it may be he is too young for them to know anything much. Its a hard background worry for you to have. x

Dog - can you get to your GP tomorrow? I would go and insist he is referred to get things in motion. It will take a while for him to be seen unfortunately but things will be in motion. There is another way of getting more immediate support - call your HV and ask that they see you, they should be able to see you tomorrow or maybe Tuesday/Wednesday at a clinic or they might come to your house, depends on how things work around you. They can refer you themselves to an OT iirc. And there will also be options at your surestart - someone there will be able to get you 'in the system' with regard to SN/SEN assessment - although they might route you back through GP/HV it is worth asking esp since you worked there. They will also be able to provide you with some support.

Lots of hugs. He'll be okay, even if there is something going on, he's got the best Mum he could ever want for.

Good for you dog. Keep the faith you are doing great. It's not long till Monday, you will feel better when you have spoken to her.

What you need is to win a comp. Then mn would prove its self truly as the bees knees.

A friend has just booked a week at the Sands on your north coast. Can you imagine?

Am so That would rock.