B/feeding number 2

I had major problems with Conor, but I stuck with it till he was 9 months old; had Mastitis(sp) a couple of times and cracked nipples the works.

With Nyah it was easy peasy; I loved feeding her, I was more aware of what I was doing, and when I got the symptons of lumps etc, I'd feed and feed until they went down. I feed her till she was 13 months.

I'm hoping number 3 is just as easy.

It sooo helps to have a good m/w, I had an uphill battle with Ashlyn - emerg csect so she was tired, couldn't get the latch right, wasn't told that after sect milk can take a bit longer to come in, lack of information from nurses/mw & lack of confidence/knowlege on my part for not asking although on day 3 when all she was doing was screaming & me telling different nurses that she was starving & dehydrated still no help (I used to put a drop of water on her toung & even that stopped her from screaming for a while but couldn't tell anyone that!!) then I got an infection had to be on iv antibiotics for days etc all went to custard. Had great m/w 2nd time round whom I could talk to about lots of things that led to complications for me & she was the best support I could have hoped for, & I am still breast feeding now!
Do watch out for nurses tho that 'expect' you know what you are doing 2nd time round, I did have to explain more than once to different nurses that we had problems 1st time round so this was all new to me & after that they were all very supportive - sorry about the novel but I hope it all makes sense