Has anyone else breastfed their first baby successfully and then completely failed with a subsequent baby? I fed my daughter til she was 2 and a half yrs old with no problems after the first week. So I anticipated that I would be like a duck to water again with my son. I couldn't have been more wrong. My milk never came in as strongly, he was fussy and difficult to feed, he lost loads of weight, and at 3 weeks just screamed blue murder everytime I put him to the breast. The HV advised that I just keep trying but the poor thing was starving and skinny so I gave him a bottle - something I NEVER thought I would do. He was then pretty much bottlefed. I hated not feeding him myself, and I'm now pregnant and scared it's going to happen again. I have no confidence now, and have lost trust in my own body really. It didn't help that a couple of weeks after he stopped breastfeeding, my son became dangerously ill with a bacterial chest infection and nearly died. I blame myself for his low immunity and I am frightened that the same will happen with the next baby. Any advice would be appreciated.
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