I'm looking for some advice for my friend Rose. She had her first baby last week - healthy baby, born at term, 7lb 12oz. He latched on well for the first few days but when her milk came in she became engorged and he refused to latch on. She tried expressing to soften the nipple but that didn't work.
So she has been expressing and feeding him breast milk in a bottle. Yesterday she developed mastitis but is still expressing off both sides & freezing the excess.
She doesn't know how to get him to latch on again - he just screams and naturally she gets upset and gives him a bottle.I don't know how to advise her.
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Help! 6 day old baby won't latch on
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Leeza2 · 23/10/2008 22:27
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