Since my baby was born I feel like feeding her has just been one big stress.
I was in hospital a few days after the birth due to high blood pressure and other things and she wouldn’t latch. I had a lot of one to one help from midwives but she just wouldn’t. I hand expressed colostrum and then asked for formula because she was clearly hungry. So we came home and I kept on trying to get her to latch but nothing so for the first seven weeks I pumped because I really wanted her to have my milk, so she bottle fed breast milk, then I got her privately assessed for tongue tie after a friend commented it could be due to that and she was and that was cut, but she will only breastfeed with a nipple shield and I worry she’s not getting enough. Yesterday she was screaming straight after I fed her for ages and then her nappy was bone dry which is really unlike her. Unfortunately not having any luck getting her off the shield I think it’s because she spent those early weeks feeding from a bottle so the breast without the shield is alien to her. I’m sick of worrying about it all.
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Yellowtopaz · 13/02/2021 14:46
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