Just that, really!
He's 5 days old now. When he was weighed he'd lost 11% and we started topping up after feeds. Much as I hated having to do it, it changed him completely - less sleepy, much happier, no more distressed crying all night, started having a decent number of wet nappies and stopped gnawing at my nipples. He put weight back on and started accepting less formula or even refusing it.
So the midwife suggested yesterday that I stop topping up as my milk seemed to come in. Yesterday evening he seemed to want to cluster feed, but ended up more and tressedw and we ended up topping up again after which he settled quickly, so it seems that he was just hungry.
I did try to express yesterday morning, and was amazed at how quickly it spurted out (took about 10 mins to get 35ml, which was used, along with some formula, last night). But late last night, once he'd settled, I tried again to express and absolutely not a drop came out do I must have been entirely empty when he was hungry.
A bit of background: very tired after a few days of labour, 14 hours in the delivery unit, pethidine, syntocin drip, epidural and emergency c-section (up till 3 days before I was booked for a home birth. The birth plan didn't even come out of the bag!). Then of course Christmas, our phone line has gone down and we're trying to get the electrician out to sort out the oven which keeps switching off.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.
Infant feeding
Will my milk EVER come in?
15 replies
VegemiteSandwich · 28/12/2012 12:24
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.