Hello all
Please could you give me some advice? I'm trying to mixed-feed my nine-day-old baby, but find that when he has both breast and bottle he fusses, then won't sleep until he's been sick, then wakes again after only about an hour. If he's fed just bottle, he sleeps for 3-4 hours at a stretch, and is not sick. Naturally, the convenience of the latter option is tempting, but I do want to do what's best for him, so have been to various breast-feeding workshops to improve my latch, etc, so he gets more breastmilk when he is on the boob.
Wednesday's advice was to give him one boob, then 100ml of formula. This made him sick every time. Today I was told to give him two boobs, then 60ml of formula. After this he was still hungry, and didn't go to sleep until he'd been sick. Awake an hour later.
Would it help if I gave him bottle first, then boob?
I'm in the throes of major hormones, and sleep deprivation, which isn't helping, and am losing the determination to keep going with BF. The reason it went wrong in the first place is that after an emergency CS, with no skin-to-skin contact, he wouldn't latch on to the right boob, the left one got so sore it bled, then he lost too much weight and the docs put him on purely formula until we were allowed to leave hospital.
My ultimate goal would be to BF in the day, with formula at night for longer time between feeds. Is this a foolish pipe dream?
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Help! Wits end being reached - breast, bottle problems with 9-day-old
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herbaceous · 17/07/2009 20:37
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