Blocked milk duct

Does anyone have any tips on how to get rid of a blocked milk duct please? I seen the midwife this morning and she told me to gently massage my breast whilst pumping, to apply a cold compress to the area and to take ibuprofen. I’ve done all of them but still blocked. When I pump there’s barely any milk coming out when normally I’ll fill the pump. Has anyone got any other tips for me please as I’m so uncomfortable and sore. Thank you

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Does your husband change your daughters diaper?

Mine avoids it and makes all kinds of excuses but he will change our son's.

If you found out your partner was masturbating to pictures of his ex, how would you respond?

If you've been through this please share your experience. It's been 2 years and I can't get over it. We have 2 under 2 and I'm a sahm, i feel stuck.

Are we all ok?? 15 week old

My baby is constantly and aggressively coming off the breast even though I know she is probably hungry, everyone keeps saying she is more alert and distracted, makes absolutely no difference to be in a dark room, she also now only feeds for about 4 minutes on average per feed, so it feels like cluster feeding but also she must be frustrated, it’s just relentless. Some days she can cry for two hours, more wake ups in the night and can be awake for two hours or so at any time in the night, no pattern to it. Feeling soo drained by it all.

Anyone elses EBF baby sleep like mine 😅

Baby is 4.5 months old and our naps have always been terrible, the max she has ever napped for is 1.5 hours, but the last month her day naps have all looked like this. She won't be resettled when she wakes up and can't seem to drift off on her own....any tips on getting her to self soothe? We can't seem to soothe her in her cot at all, she just screams, or falls asleep for one minute then wakes up upset! She won't keep a dummy in either.
Some bedtimes are also taking up to six hours because of this, but if I try to reset by taking her downstairs, we start bedtime again and it could take hours again!
She also won't fall asleep in the car or buggy, only on me and occasionally being rocked with a dummy by only me or my partner😅

Combi feeding

Is anyone able to give me advice on how to do this from birth please. My first was formula only but I really want to make an attempt if I can, I just know I won’t be able to handle the whole shabang and sometimes I’m just going to need the option to just hand to my partner and say make a bottle. I absolutely do not want to touch a pump (they’re terrifying to me) so Combi is what I’m going for. TIA

Stress and arguments

Hi ladies, there has been a lot of arguments at home with my husband, it’s almost every 2nd or 3rd day due to some issue or the other with the main issue being how irresponsible and timid he is in every situation we are in, be it family, work, issues with our house etc. it’s come to a point that after years of being the person who handles all issues, I am so burnt out and stressed and this has caused pretty intense fights at home, more me yelling and him promising things in vain and nothing changes.

My biggest concern is how is this impacting our baby. Does constant fights, anxiety and stress harm the baby?