Purple mouths and the sickies

Breastfeeding has been nothing short of a challenge this time around. I've had basically every issue you can have while breastfeeding, and the girls are only 5 1/2 weeks old. It started out with my milk not coming in and the girls losing a ton of weight, causing us to stay an extra day in the hospital. Then when we went home we had to rent a scale so that we could constantly weigh them to see how much they gained and to see how much breast milk they got (by weighing them before nursing and then right after) and we had to keep track of EVERYTHING. The feedings consisted of me nursing them, then supplementing with formula (with the help of my parents and Jeff), followed by me pumping to up my supply, having to constantly clean the bottles and the pumping supplies, and all of that took so much time that I felt like we were always feeding the girls and never sleeping. My milk supply is mostly pretty good now. Along with the milk supply issue I have also had a clogged duct, mastitis, sore/cracked nipples, and most recently thrush. With Porter I never got thrush so this was new for me. My nipples hurt a ton (sorry if that's too much info), and poor Simone has the worst diaper rash. With thrush part of the treatment is gentian violet, which makes the babies mouths, and my nipples, purple. Here's what it looks like:

This was the first day we did it and we were apparently pretty messy. That stuff gets everywhere.

We did a little better with the side that Scarlet was on. By now we've got it down so just their lips get purple and they stay that way all through the next day. It's like we have two little gothic girls with dark lipstick.

Along with the fun breastfeeding issues Porter has been sick for like 4 days now. He hasn't been sick for almost a year and this one has hit with a vengeance. Poor little guy has a fever, endless snot, a nasty cough and sour throat. He feels miserable. He even asks to go to bed early and to take naps. Jeff hasn't been feeling well either. I seem to be fine and the girls are mostly fine - Scarlet has had a snotty nose, but nothing too bad. But earlier today in the span of 10 minutes Jeff sneezed, then Porter, then Scarlet, followed by Simone. I was the only one who didn't. Hopefully everyone gets better soon. Jeff's mom left yesterday so I am very grateful that Jeff doesn't have school or anything this week.

Poor little sicky.