I had a really complicated recovery from birth of ds on Xmas day and haven't really had established bf yet. First of all he was severly jaundiced so had to do formula top ups as had no milk. Then we thought he was bf ok but he was putting his tongue on the top of his mouth and just sucking until too tired to continue then delatching and started loosing weight. Again told to do top ups. Now have painful nipples a lazy feeder which I partly blame on being given top ups after every bf which seems to have made him lazy. He tends to latch on correctly then take about 2sucks then just slip up the nipple taking a couple of strong sucks while doing that so over time one nipple is agony. He seems to feed OK on one side and not the other but still requires a top up of about 100-130ml of formula after 20mins.
I am trying to express with no luck getting about 5ml after 5-10mins.
I don't want to formula feed but I feel as though my options are being taken away from me as I struggle with him not feeding correctly and am worried that my milk supply with just disappear.
Seeing a cranial osteopath on Wed in the hope that it helps.
Is there anything I can do???? Am getting really depressed about it all.
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3wks old, told failing to thrive must top up, want to bf but struggling... help!!!!!
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Chuffed · 20/01/2006 09:37
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