My brother's wife (his ex still feels like SIL to me) has just had a baby and after struggling with feeding asked me for advice. I told her what I could and their DD seemed to be feeding better and they were all more relaxed when we left. I left the BF helplines etc and the midwife was coming into them later that day.
Unfortunately she had already lost a lot of weight and has been back in hospital being treated for jaundice and some dehydration. She's been tube fed for a while and is now being cup fed a mix of formula and breast milk.
They do really seem to want to breastfeed so on top of my advice about lots of skin to skin etc (have leant them slings etc and advised that baby spends as much time on mum as possible, rather than my brother taking her when she stops feeding, to give the mum a break), while the top ups are continuing she obviously needs to do as much as she can to increase her supply.
So, any tips please? AFAIK she is expressing 3 hourly and the midwives etc seem very supportive (although she feels they didn't help her much before she came out of hospital on the BF front). Apart from regular expressing and skin to skin, is there anything else they could/should be doing?
TIA!
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ChairmumMiaow · 07/09/2009 14:18
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