Hi,
My gorgeous boy was born last Thursday. It was a very long labour with last minute complications so we were both exhausted. Friday feeding was a struggle. Saturday morning my midwife came and helped us feed. Saturday/Sunday went much better and he took to feeding really well. However, he started to get sluggish and was sleeping a lot. By Tuesday he’d lost 13% of his body weight. So, on MW advice (who is really pro breast feeding) we started some mixed feeding to get his weight stabilised.
Unfortunately now of course he’s preferring the bottle. I’m still feeding at each feed, both breasts, and expressing after each feed, and just mixing in some formula, but I’m worried this is the beginning of the end, at only one week old.
Any advice on how to move forward please? My milk is coming in but my breasts don’t get the engorged feeling I was expecting. I’m expressing around 10ml each time. I just feel so sad that I’m not feeding my baby :-(
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1 week old, help please
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tmc14 · 07/12/2017 12:41
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