typing one handed for the second day in a row because baby is asleep on my chest. he can’t sleep unless he is propped up on his tummy as his gas seems so bad nothig works – put him in his crib, he arches his back, screams and tears up in pain. poor thing, it kills me to see him hurting.
i lost it a little earlier, someone in a comm was talking about their birth plan, and remembering our birth i just began to cry. everyone kept saying ‘difficult pregnancy, easy baby’…yet we’re dealing with jaundice, my milk supply not being enough, reflux, you name it. baby steps, baby steps. one foot in front of another. i can do this. we can do this.
it will be okay.
Mags 8:45 pm on February 15, 2011 Permalink |
Do NOT beat yourself up over how things are going. We ended up readmitted due to feeding problems, and then on the breast/bottle combi (with expressing as well!). As well as the benefits of both, you get the drawbacks (endless bottle-making etc). Eventually, I told the HV I couldn’t do it any more and reduced the amount of feeds I did. We hung on till the first jabs, then moved over to just bottles. We’re now reducing those as solids step up and that early distress over feeding means I’m twitching about the reduction in milk!
It DOES get better and you can do it.
Oh, and to go with the Dr Brown bottles, has the HV suggested a comfort formula? We use Aptamil Comfort which eases constipation and colic – don’t know if it helps with reflux…