Naf, happy birthday! Okie, will reply your PM after this.
Now I'm wondering if I shd still go and visit the lactation consultant. Coz things seem to be ok with my right boob liaoz. No more hard lumps, gal latching on that side ok and it now yields more than the left when pump (yeah!)...hehs.
Oh, for those mummies who mentioned that their babies cry non-stop even after feeds...or stare wide-eyed like so facinated by dunno what...
I had that problem too. If my gal cries and cries (with arms and legs flailing about her), I thot she's hungry (even though I just fed her). So I'd continue to try and "stuff" bottle or breast in her face (so rude horh...), which she will suck once or twice and then reject. If she's wide-eyed, I would think she's just alert and awake and will put her down to play by herself. But once put down she will wail.
Subsequently, hb and I realised that actually, those are signs that baby is very tired (or overtired) and needs some help / calming down to sleep. What works for us is:- we would dim the room lights, swaddle her up (that would immobilise her) so she's snug, place her in her cot, but we dun leave her. We continue to hold her (our hands / palms holding her swaddled arms against her body - sort of like providing additional "snug-ness" and security). Then she will calm down and go into dreamland on her own.
When baby cries and cries and is not hungry, baby is most likely overtired/overstimulated. So need to be calmed down. When baby is wide-eyed, also mean same thing. Wide-eyed..it's like us adults. Sometimes we're so tired, we just stare ahead into blank space (ok, maybe we're not that wide-eyed)...same thing for them lah. So need to calm them too. For my gal, when she's at this kind of stage, we dun play any music liaoz. She wun calm down. hehs. Guess she's so tired already, still play lullaby, she must be saying "I'm already so tired, still have additional things to add to my auditory senses? how to rest??" hahahaha...