...that today I'd be sitting squeezing my own boobs whilst DH diligently collected the resulting colostrum in a syringe to be shot into 4 day old baby girl's mouth and that this would seem perfectly normal to us both...well, I wouldn't have believed them, to say the least.
And yet here we are. DD fed reasonably well in hospital, partly I suspect due to the attentions of very forceful midwives who pushed her head onto my breast and wouldn't take "waaaa" for an answer. But since we've been home she either fights frantically against being on the breast - literally pushing herself off and screaming - or consents to latch on, sucks a couple of times and then promptly falls into a deep sleep.
We had a wonderful session with a lactation consultant yesterday, following which we had 2 or 3 really good feeds, but today she's back to her previous pattern. Consultant has recommended just keeping her close, offering the breast whenever she looks vaguely interested, and the aforementioned colostrum harvesting to keep her going till my milk comes in - which I hope will be very soon!
Anyone else had this? What worked for you?