Blocked duct again? 😩 Need some advice mamas

Has anyone experienced sharp pain while breastfeeding/pumping on one side and then noticed a lump afterwards? It’s happened on my left breast a couple of times now. Last time I just kept pumping, massaged it out and it eventually went away.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening? And why does it happen in the first place? 😩

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Emotionally drained

I don't understand why my daughter is so evil and negative 24/7 unless she is begging for something. That's the only time she smiles and is happy for a second. Im literally literally so tired of it. I don't want her around me anymore. I've been crying all day because I genuinely don't know what to do with or for her anymore.. I just need someone to talk to, other than the ones that knows me or her. Because they just don't get it or understand it. They brush it off and I'm literally drained with her.

Doctor made me uncomfortable

My husband slipped down the stairs while holding my daughter last week so we took her to the doctor to be checked. She had a little rug burn on her forehead but was perfectly fine and her normal happy self. Because it was a last minute visit we didn’t see our regular doctor & this doctor checked her thoroughly… including the inside of her vagina.. I’m not wrong for being uncomfortable with this right? My daughter is 10 months old and this is the first doctor to do this and when I said “why hasn’t anyone else done this?” she goes “oh uh good question”..

Allergen before bed 😩

So this eve I accidentally gave my LG hoummus with her tea and then she wanted to go to bed within about half an hour and she's now asleep.

I completely forgot it's an allergen because of the sesame and now I'm really worried!

Has anyone else done this and what did you do?

I'm watching her on the baby monitor and she's wearing her Snuza clip to monitor her breathing.

4 month sleep regression help

My little one is 3.5 months and until the weekend she was sleeping blocks of 4-5 hours at night in her next to me. Now she’ll do 2 hours and then up every hour after that.

She also only ever cried when hungry / tummy hurt, never when tired. Now she can be laughing and babbling, then the next minute screaming due to being tired. We then get her to nap by wearing her in a wrap.

Does this sound like the sleep regression or could it be because we had a busy weekend?

Any advice how to help her? 😭 we’ve never had set naps / feeds, always just followed her lead.

Breastfeeding at night

My baby is exclusively breastfed, but is still waking every 2/3 hours in the night. Should he be going longer through the night?

Any tips to help me get him to do longer stretches at night time?

Breast feeding AND bottle?!

Heyy mama’s, I need some help or advice or even some experience. I’m expecting in about a month and my husband wants to help with feeding so I’m not getting up every 2 hours. I am going to be breast feeding and pumping as well and he wants to help bottle feed (breast milk) in-between so I can get a bit of sleep. Do you think bottle feeding might make the little one not want to breast feed? Does it usually work out to do both? Should I avoid mix feeding? Not too sure what to do..!