I'm hoping someone can help.
My ds was born Sat night. I had gestational diabetes (on metformin) and even though it was well controlled ds had low blood sugar that night and was admitted to neonatal high dependency unit for a glucose drip. They have him on 35 mls formula every the hours and he's off drip for now as bloods stabilised, to see if hopefully they'll stay stable without it (still getting t formula). They encourage hand expressing colostrum here but umfortunately I've never gotten on well with expressing either colostrum or breastmilk (though bf dd for 1.5 years). So only getting miniscule amounts - like 0.1 mls a go. They aren't keen for me to bf as they say the energy he expends doing so could affect his blood sugar which they want to keep high. So they want the colostrum without the feeding : ((
Could anyone tell me, will my actual breast milk supply still come in, even if I've mainly been expressing over past 36 hrs since ds was born, rather than bf ing? Is there anything i can do in this situation? Desperate to breastfeed and really worried it won't happen this time. I've asked to see a lactation consultant today.
TIA
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OstrichRunning · 21/05/2018 05:04
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