DD2 is 48 hours old. I fed DD1 til she was 12 months but that was 2 years ago and i am out of practice!
She was 7lb when born on wednesday afternoon. My problem is she is very sleepy all the time and I cant seem to get her roused enough to feed. Getting her to be interested enough to open her mouth wide to give latching a go is hard. If the latch fails I often don't get a second chance, she's back off to sleep...
I've tried stripping her off, being in cold room, tickling her feet/blowing to keep her going and did about 4 hours of skin to skin this morning, but she just wants to snooze. She wakes, I offer boob and she takes a few sucks and nods off again if the latch isn't 100%.
I've had a few good feeds (maybe 5 in total) lasting 20 mins or half an hour. Otherwise it's a couple of minutes and she nods off despite my best efforts to keep her awake.
She did 6 meconium nappies yesterday and 2 urine ones so i was happy enough, but the midwife this morning thought she was starting to get a tiny bit of jaundice. Today has so far not been very successful and it's now maybe 12 hours since she had a really good feed though I've tried a minimum every 2 hours (well, basically every time she has stirred really).
I'm just worried there isn't enough demand to get the milk to come in and why isn't she more hungry? Or is this ok for this early, can some babies just be a bit tired until day 3? It wasn't a traumatic birth btw, she was delivered on my bathroom floor by my husband, it only took 6 minutes (something of a surprise after a 36 hour labour and 2.5 hours of pushing for DD1, but that's a whole other story)
Please reassure me or tell me what else I can do to try and get her to feed. I did express a few mls (about 5) and feed her by syringe this morning as I was stressing out about her not latching.
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48hrs old - baby very sleepy and hard to feed
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smaths · 30/08/2013 14:40
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