... with ds1 i wanted to bf but he didn't bf. we tried for apx 4 weeks before having to resort to bottle, trying to express milk for as long as poss.
The problem i have or issue if you like, is that after 4 days in hosptal after ds's birth (both me and ds fine, no probs before, during or after birth) i hadto request rather demandingily to be letr home! Ladies who had had caseareans and who often didn't want to go home were being sent home before me! It was made clear that i would be let home once ds fed from me. I'm aware from past issues with brothers kids that hospitals have breast feeding charters and must promote breast feeding and will keep you in until you are classed as having successfullf bf (thuisis result if long discussions with staff after my brothers children where let out of hospital after a few issues resulting from feeding)
so, the question is, when i go in to have my next dc (am 36wks pregnant) i want to tell the hospital that i am planning to bottole feed, so that i am not kept in until the baby latches on. (i am planning to bf if i can, but i know from experience after having so many different nurses grabbing my boobs and trying to get ds to latch on that there is no science in how the hospital try to get babies to feed), this might sound odd but after i left hospital with ds my dh ended up taking me to dr's thanks to how low i felt, and i am not having the same witht his pg. So, if i staste that i am bottle feeding: do you have to take in all your own supplies: botkes, sterilisers, milk, etc, or do the hospital styilllet you use the milk with the teats that screw on? any advice so i go in prepared thanks!
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yousaidit · 07/10/2008 16:34
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