u/justyaaveragechlo

My third baby is 6 weeks old, my other two I successfully breastfed for 16 months and 9 months. This time around, we’re having a hard time. He’s breastfeeding, but he’s so fussy at the breast. He acts hungry, I put him on and he’s constantly unlatching and crying. We go between breastfeeding and giving him bottles of pumped milk and when he gets a bottle he seems so full and satisfied after. I don’t remember struggling with this with my other two. I’ve been debating just exclusively pumping but I really don’t want to do that, I want to nurse him. I have always had a harsh let down so maybe that’s why, but does this mean we won’t be able to nurse? Is this gonna get better? I don’t know why I’m struggling this much when I’ve done this twice already.

My son is almost a month old and we’ve been dealing with a yeast booty rash + oral thrush on and off since he was born. It’s been miserable to say the least. Once we figured out that his butt rash was yeast, we utilized the disposable diapies we had from our hospital stay and I bleached our newborn size GMD prefolds, our esembly cloth wipes, and our size zero covers from GMD. His rash went away and we ran out of disposables so we switched him back to cloth. Now, of course, the rash is back. I’m not sure if it came back because of putting him back in the cloth diapers? Like maybe I did the bleaching incorrectly? I’m just extremely overwhelmed by this, and we’re going through a very difficult financial time right now so we can’t afford to get more disposables. He’s also currently going up to size small GMD prefolds and size one esembly covers now, so I’m nervous to infect all of these with the yeast as well.

I have some questions:

1. The esembly covers we have in size one all have vibrant colors/prints on them. Are they safe to use chlorine bleach? Or do I need to do a separate load for the covers?

2. I have an HE Maytag top load washer. Do I need to add bleach to our prewash/main wash cycles or do I need to do those without bleach, then after the main wash do another wash without detergent and with the bleach?

3. He is prescribed Nystatin and Mupirocin creams for his butt. Are these safe to use with the cloth?

4. I purchased the organic, non bleached prefolds because I’m very very sensitive and picky about what goes on my kids butt/genital area. I’m so nervous about bleaching all these diapers because I plan to use these for all of our kids and I don’t want chemicals in that area (as much as I can avoid it) will bleaching the diapers harm him? Or will it harm the diapers?

5. How can I be absolutely sure that I’m killing the yeast so I don’t keep reinfecting him or kids that we’ll have in the future? I’m worried that the rash came back cause maybe I treated the diapers wrong.

Please help, this has been such a huge wrench in this first month of having him and it’s driving me crazy. My biggest reason for cloth diapering was not exposing baby to all the chemicals and it feels like that’s already down the drain.

I’ve heard a few different places that you have to be careful with which diaper creams you use while using cloth diapers. Why? What creams are/are not acceptable? I’m using the Badger diaper cream (not the balm) on cotton prefolds. How am I supposed to know if that’s okay or not? What happens if you use an unacceptable cream on them while they’re in their cloth diapers? I’m just very confused by this.

My third baby is almost a month old, I’ve breastfed all 3 very successfully (well, so far so good with baby #3) I have had a great supply with all of them. My first two were tongue tied which created a little bit of issues with latch until it got corrected. My third is not tongue tied at all. However, with all 3 of my kids, they never had this “perfect” latch, like mouth super wide/both lips totally flanged out. All of their latches have been fairly shallow. My current baby pretty much just sucks my nipple up like a straw (like what he does with a binky) and he comes off the boob constantly due to strong let down so trying to fix it just would be pointless.

Anywho, since I’m on my third baby now I feel like I have a fairly good idea on breastfeeding in general, which is why I’m curious if anyone’s babies actually have that “perfect” latch? Is that just like how they say breastfeeding isn’t supposed to hurt? Cause that’s completely bogus in my opinion, at least during the first month or so before your nipples toughen up.

I had my first 8.5 years ago back when the Boppy was round and full all the way around. I just had my third 3 weeks ago and the new Boppy we bought this time is more square shaped and the sides are much thinner than the front. It’s actually awful to use in my opinion. I miss the one design.