I'm 22 weeks pregnant with my second child, and would like to breastfeed. It went horribly wrong with DS1 - ended up in hospital a week after birth because he'd lost too much weight, then he began refusing the breast, and I moved him onto bottles. Tried to exclusively express, but the sleep deprivation was killing me, and I moved to formula after 3 weeks.
I'm posting because I know that there were some things I could have done at the time to help, but because I was in such a state, I didn't. For one, I wasn't eating, sometimes getting by on an apple a day (not sure if this was something to do with the recovery from EMCS or the PND kicking in early). I didn't insist hard enough of getting help with the latch while in hospital, and I feel like I gave up too easily, though in reality if I'd carried on without help, the subsequent PND would have killed me (it almost did anyway). This time around, I want to make sure that I do everything in my power to get it right. Any tips would be much appreciated.
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What can I do to give us the best chance of succeeding with breastfeeding this time?
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Sorelip · 22/08/2013 11:52
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