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[lbroon]

Originally Posted by ladybug

Julicka,

If you feel your breast is very full, spend a little time massaging it and hand expressing some milk off before feeding. You can wrap a warm flannel around the breast, or lie in a warm bath and express some of the milk off. Best thing is to get your baby latched on!

Take a couple of paracetamol to help ease the pain.

If your nipples are sore it might just be that he isn't attaching properly. If you feel sore when he is feeding, take him off and get the latch right. It might feel sore for the first 30 seconds or so (as the nipple is moving towards the back of the mouth) but after that there shouldn't be pain.

Where do you live? (Generally - don't post details.) I strongly recommend you go to a breastfeeding group nearby, so someone can observe a feed and help you if there is a problem with attachment. The women at these groups are fabulous, and it's great to get advice from other mums who are still feeding, and who live close by.

If you have serious pain in your breast (right inside) while you are feeding, there is a possibility of thrush. Also, if you are not emptying your breast it might be a blocked duct or mastitis. It really makes sense to go and see someone LOCAL in a GROUP of people who can actually breastfeed so that you can get the help you and your baby need.

thank u every one who answerd to my quetion.yeasterday I felt very bad its a fever and its mAISTITIS.wENT TO SEE MY GP TODAY AND SHE GAVE ME SOME TABLETS.HOPE IT WIIL HELP ME.

[jobunny]

Hi
I have an 18 month old baby who I am still feeding. I love feeding her but she is up three times a night feeding ,she used to sleep for 12 hours from when she was ten weeks old until she was one. She wakes up and iwill only comforted by me. I am soooo exhausted. I have been to see the doctor about PND he has prescribed setraline. I don't want to take it. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be able to pick myself up if I could just get some sleep. I have never left either of my children to cry and she has only got eight teeth so far and the next few months seem to be very daunting to me if things carry on like this. I have done the peer supporters training but have know idea how to advise myself. I am a happy person but just feel that I am struggling to keep calm at the moment. Please help. Should I give up feeding. If so how? She is extremely willful! My husband is very happy to help and I did go away for the weekend. She was quite happy not feeding and only woke once each night. She won't take a bottle. I have tried letting my husband take her in the night but she knows that I am here and just gets so upset. He has taken all his holiday this year and after the weekedn she was just as keen to feed. Do I just wait it out.

[LittleMissMe]

Originally Posted by jobunny

Hi
I have an 18 month old baby who I am still feeding. I love feeding her but she is up three times a night feeding ,she used to sleep for 12 hours from when she was ten weeks old until she was one. She wakes up and iwill only comforted by me. I am soooo exhausted. I have been to see the doctor about PND he has prescribed setraline. I don't want to take it. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be able to pick myself up if I could just get some sleep. I have never left either of my children to cry and she has only got eight teeth so far and the next few months seem to be very daunting to me if things carry on like this. I have done the peer supporters training but have know idea how to advise myself. I am a happy person but just feel that I am struggling to keep calm at the moment. Please help. Should I give up feeding. If so how? She is extremely willful! My husband is very happy to help and I did go away for the weekend. She was quite happy not feeding and only woke once each night. She won't take a bottle. I have tried letting my husband take her in the night but she knows that I am here and just gets so upset. He has taken all his holiday this year and after the weekedn she was just as keen to feed. Do I just wait it out.

sounds similar to what was happening with my youngest although he was only 13 months. I had to send OH in to Dylan when he woke at night it was the only way, it was hard the first few nights cause I knew if I fed him that'd be it sorted but we had to get it sorted once and for all. I think it only took a week or so of OH settling him and we had to let him cry a bit, but he did stop waking at night he fed during the day 2 or 3 times but I weaned him off that too over the next few weeks as he wasn't taking much it was just a comfort thing.

You have to be strong and keep it up! Its hard but worth it xxxx

[fussymum]

Kellymom is a great source of info on nightwaking:-

kellymom.com :: Sleeping Through the Night

Basically, it is only a problem if it's a problem for you iyswim. Your lo is displaying perfectly normal behaviour - not very convenient and very exhausting but it doesn't mean you are doomed never to sleep again.....honest! If you do decide to nightwean there are much gentler methods than CIO or CC. Even if you do decide to nightwean that doesn't mean daytime feeds have to stop. The WHO recommends bf for at LEAST 2 years and for as long after as you wish.

[rachaelmae]

Originally Posted by jobunny

Hi
I have an 18 month old baby who I am still feeding. I love feeding her but she is up three times a night feeding ,she used to sleep for 12 hours from when she was ten weeks old until she was one. She wakes up and iwill only comforted by me. I am soooo exhausted. I have been to see the doctor about PND he has prescribed setraline. I don't want to take it. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be able to pick myself up if I could just get some sleep. I have never left either of my children to cry and she has only got eight teeth so far and the next few months seem to be very daunting to me if things carry on like this. I have done the peer supporters training but have know idea how to advise myself. I am a happy person but just feel that I am struggling to keep calm at the moment. Please help. Should I give up feeding. If so how? She is extremely willful! My husband is very happy to help and I did go away for the weekend. She was quite happy not feeding and only woke once each night. She won't take a bottle. I have tried letting my husband take her in the night but she knows that I am here and just gets so upset. He has taken all his holiday this year and after the weekedn she was just as keen to feed. Do I just wait it out.

I did CC when Livvy was about a year old to stop the night feeds, it was getting silly! she still bf in the day.
You have to do whats best for you! i dont think theres any right or easy answer. I have to say CC was alot easier with livvy once she got the message I wasnt feeding her she gave up!

Can you OH see to her in the night for a few nights to get her out the habit, although you will prob get the same reaction of wanting bfing when you do see to her!

Goodluck and I hope you feel better soon, sleep is vitally imprtant when it comes to mood, and im sure once you start sleeping you will feel betterx

[fussymum]

There is a much more recent article than this one, it's not the one I was looking for, but this Science shows up Supernanny | UK News | The Observer explains some of the reasons I deeply regret using CC for my 2 girls and would never dream of doing it for my boy. I do take comfort that I didn't know any different at the time and did the best I could with the info I had at the time.

[rachaelmae]

Originally Posted by fussymum

There is a much more recent article than this one, it's not the one I was looking for, but this Science shows up Supernanny | UK News | The Observer explains some of the reasons I deeply regret using CC for my 2 girls and would never dream of doing it for my boy. I do take comfort that I didn't know any different at the time and did the best I could with the info I had at the time.

thanks for that, made me giggle.

[Anna07]

Originally Posted by fussymum

There is a much more recent article than this one, it's not the one I was looking for, but this Science shows up Supernanny | UK News | The Observer explains some of the reasons I deeply regret using CC for my 2 girls and would never dream of doing it for my boy. I do take comfort that I didn't know any different at the time and did the best I could with the info I had at the time.

so far i am screwing up on every level with first child having used formula from 3 months and done CC twice with her....

[Imosmummy]

Originally Posted by fussymum

There is a much more recent article than this one, it's not the one I was looking for, but this Science shows up Supernanny | UK News | The Observer explains some of the reasons I deeply regret using CC for my 2 girls and would never dream of doing it for my boy. I do take comfort that I didn't know any different at the time and did the best I could with the info I had at the time.

FFS, i dont agree with CC but i would never put other parents down for doing it, nobody knows what a parent goes through,how they can be pushed to the edge and effect their wellbeing and that of their child. For many parents it can be a life saver, but just because its not for me doesnt mean i go around putting other peoples parenting down, you know the expression one size doesnt fit all?

[fussymum]

Originally Posted by Imosmummy

FFS, i dont agree with CC but i would never put other parents down for doing it, nobody knows what a parent goes through,how they can be pushed to the edge and effect their wellbeing and that of their child. For many parents it can be a life saver, but just because its not for me doesnt mean i go around putting other peoples parenting down, you know the expression one size doesnt fit all?

How exactly have I put anyone down? I did CC myself - and I said that even if someone had told me more I may have still done the same at the time - I just wish I'd known there were other options.
The poster said she had never left her children to cry, and is (please correct me if I'm wrong jobunny) obviously uncomfortable with it, so am just letting her know there are other options, and that her instinct not to let her children cry is not a bad thing and is there for a reason.

ETA - The post you are referring to was sharing my own personal experience..that is all.