breastfeeding problemd

[Mandafor]

Hi
I had my son a week ago by emergency c-section in which they gave me so much anaesthetic that I wasn't able to hold baby or do skin on skin or have a go at breastfeeding for hours.
. The next day I tried and it wasn't successful and I was concerned he wasn't getting enough food but the midwives in hospital were against formula and said it would be ok.
I persevered and by day 3/4 thought I had cracked it, but when the midwife came round she told us that he was verging on dehydration and we had to start formula feeding straight away to get his weight up- he had lost a pound- by this point he was latching on to the breast but not sucking and it turned out that my milk had not really come in and baby had been getting little food for days! We have been using formula and he is on the mend and I have been trying to express regularly to keep my milk in but it seems to be drying up. Has anyone got any suggestions or been in the same boat? I want to breastfeed but its all going wrong and I feel I am letting everyone down:)

I had this 6 weeks ago, due to an emergency c section and I am sat breastfeeding DD now! I just did what you are doing re: expressing and it eventually did. I found it did when I had almost give up on breast feeding and really relaxed about the formula. DD still has the odd bottle (she was 10lb though so takes rather a lot of feeding) but I would say she is 90% BF which I am happy with. Good luck!

I also wanted to say you are letting no-one down, you are doing your absolute best in a difficult situation and that is to be applauded. If it doesn't work out then you know it's no fault of your own and remember formula isn't poison its a perfectly adequate way of feeding your baby.