does anyone know why this happened to me and dd? i assumed i would breastfeed and for the first couple of days, before my milk came in properly, we did ok. i got a bit nibbled but MW showed me how to position and it was fine. then i got engorged and she wouldn't latch on. screamed, scratched me, refused to feed. MW had her on standby to go to hospital if she wouldn't take a bottle - which she did, no problem, so crisis over. thereafter i did get her to latch on and continued to breastfeed but, feeling more than a bit sleep deprived and because she would feed for 2 hours at a time, i always gave her formula for the middle of the night feed. the thing is she would bf for, as i said, 2 hours then within half an hour she would be screaming for more food. i checked that she was taking milk not just comfort suckling and she was a good sucker. i was beside myself. as an experiment when she was 4 weeks old i expressed 6 -7 oz of breastmilk and gave it to her in a bottle so i could be sure how much she was taking. she drank it straight down. 20 minutes later she was screaming again. i gave her another bottle, 5 oz of ready made formula, and then she was fine. happy and calm until next feed about 3 - 4 hours later. WHY????? did she need feeds of more than 10 oz at that age? was my milk just water? what the heck was going on!!!!
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