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Originally Posted by Rothmom  Do most of you have baby in bed with you already? I can nurse lying down, but not sleep at the same time, I am afraid my breast will smother her if I dont watch. Also it isn't all that comfortable while she is feeding and once she falls asleep she does this little flutter with her tongue that just feels creepy crawly, but she has such a strong latch that sometimes I can't break her suction, any suggestions?
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I'm co-sleeping. WIth DD1 i couldn't, because her dad, my ex, smoked canabis, and i was scared he'd smother her. Once he and i split up i brought her into bed from the fist feed after her "longest" sleep - usually a 3 or 4 hour stretch after midnight. I was so used to putting her down in her cot i didn't bring her into bed full-time. So it's been really nice having little Camille in bed with me from the start, we're already thining about putting her in her cot for some of the night and i feel so sad knowing she won't be right wth me (but also looking forward to being able to snuggle up with DH again!). I have giant boobs (36J bra is tight when it's nearly time for a feed!) so i hear you on the smother-worry. I have a few things i do. One is to tuck her feet right against my tummy, and angle her away from me, then once she's sleepy/asleep i move her head so her chin is buried in my breast and her head is tipped back - that means my breasts is away from her nose. SOMEtimes when i do that she ends up just sucking the end of my nipple which hurts and wakes me up. Another thing i do is to put the tip of my finger between the and of her nose and my breast. That holds the flesh off her nostrils and doesn't seem to bother her, plus it stops her latch sliding off.
As for the latch - slide a finger into the corner of her mouth to break suction? Or, if that doesn't work, i can usually tim it with her sucks and pull it out in between them. Or there is always (kind of mean) letting the breast fall onto her nose a little, my DD pulls off if she can't breathe easily.
Burnindinner i too have a wrap-star here! She's asleep on my tummy in the wrap as i speak. I'm finding it more hassle than i did with DD (because i have a 4yo to look after an a household to run too!) but i'm excited because a friend bought a Close Carrier, and i'm going to sew myself a copy in the next few weeks - getting the wrap on and off is taking me time, and i find i have to re-tie it after every feed or two because i lose track of which bit is which - if i was making my own i'd dip-dye it so it was obvious once it was tied, the green bit is the shoulder strap, the red bit is the front section and so on. But i'm not, so for now it'll be a copied CLose. I have a ring sling but DD doesn't lke it (neither do i really) - she's so long, even though i'm tall and broad she's sort of curled round me and she really doesn't seem to like it. And i feel it's not as secure as the wrap. My only problem is cooking- i can't cook over a gas hob with DD on my front and she's too wee to go on my back...
We're doing well, i basically feel back to normal in the sense that i have DD but i'm basically back to my normal schedule and doing what i always did around the house. It's funny, she just fits right in.
Physically my lochia is almost stopped, just the odd bit each day. My perineum is completely healed, has been for weeks, and i feel more "normal". I'm doing plevic floor exercises constantly but i'm still nowhere near "as i was"! The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be!
Ah well, it's only been a month, i guess these things take time sometimes. My abs hurt today, i think from all the walking i've been doing with DD in the wrap. In fact i guess carrying her so much probably isn't going to heal my pelvic floor faster...lol.
but none of my non-maternity shorts fit me and my shoes all leave horrible marks in my feet.
