please support...newborn feeding

[EdlessAllenPoe]

sister has baby at home.
she has expressed small amounts of colostrum but it is hard to get baby to latch for more than a few gulps. baby born 2am yesterday.

one boob has been latched successfully, other one is expressing ok,

have rented an NCT pump but they can't get anyone out over xmas - please give advice :)
skin to skin currently going on to get supply, which is helping,

baby is big!

Hi Edless just wanted to say:

1. I fed my DS with nipple shields for 8 months as my nipples were deemed too short/flat! He was massive by the time I'd finished! So it can work out with the shields. I did not need to express.
2. With DD, who is now 6mo, she had a thin but v short tongue tie. When I read your first post about your DSIS's baby latching and then repeatedly coming off the breast, I did wonder about tongue tie as this is exactly what happened to us. She would only latch on with shields before it was cut. I carried on with the shields as assumed I still had my inadequate nipples but then stopped using them virtually overnight at about 3 months. So, it is possible to stop using them as well, even after a while.

Hope all is improving at your end.

thanks nitnaboo - went and saw big sis today and baby seemed much happier... sis had had a little more sleep too!