My little girl is 11 weeks today and still exclusivey express breast feeding. I pump four times a day. She is now going through the night from 11pm to 7.30am without feeding and I'm not pumping from about 10.30 to 8am but still no sign of periods returning. Feeling massively unattractive anyway as I still have breast thrush which keeps appearing in the baby making area too, am three stone overweight and to add to this delightful picture I now seem to have post partum piles! My poor OH probably can't find me less sexy at the moment! But my baby is totally worth it! X
My little girl is 11 weeks today and still exclusivey express breast feeding. I pump four times a day. She is now going through the night from 11pm to 7.30am without feeding and I'm not pumping from about 10.30 to 8am but still no sign of periods returning. Feeling massively unattractive anyway as I still have breast thrush which keeps appearing in the baby making area too, am three stone overweight and to add to this delightful picture I now seem to have post partum piles! My poor OH probably can't find me less sexy at the moment! But my baby is totally worth it! X
BunnyN I've just realised what I wrote there was a bit misleading, this is her actual routine: 7pm or 8pm feed, goes in cot fast asleep until 10/11pm when I wake her for another feed then she sleeps all the way til 4.30am when she wakes up with a wet nappy. Then I put her back in her cot and she'll stay in there maybe an hour before she cries but when she does its only because she can't settle and wants to sleep on my chest so that's where she sleeps until 7.30am. So although there is no feeding she still has me up and down a bit. However I fee very lucky because she got into this routine herself without me really trying very hard to encourage it and obviously sleeping for long stretches is a bit harder with breast fed babies as their tummies don't stay as full for as long as it's digested much quicker than formula. So she has been very good - I shall be disappointed when I inevitably have another baby that isn't as well behaved! X