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A positive BF story...

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midori1999 · 18/09/2012 18:39

It's not me, it's a friend who I've been helping/supporting, I've posted about her before.

She had a really difficult birth and was herself in High dependency due to blood loss. She repeatedly asked for help to breastfeed in hospital and was given none, just bottles of formula. When she got home and first saw the midwife, she was told that if her baby hadn't latched by now she never would. She was also not told by the BF clinic that expressing twice a day wasn't enough to maintain her supply.

When baby was 4 weeks old, she was still not latching, almost exclusively FF with a bit (only about 2oz by then) of expressed breastmilk a day.

By 5 weeks her baby was latching, although with a shield only and 4 days later at her weigh in had lost 2oz. The HV was great, not too concerned, just said we'll see what happens next week....

She was giving a 3oz top of formula a day at the start of last week and has now been exclusively breastfeeding for a few days and her baby had gained 10oz in a week at this weigh in!!!! Grin

She is so happy about this and words can't explain how pleased I am for her!

It also goes to show that it is possible to EBF if you want to even if things seem really dire. [samile]

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Crimebusterofthesea · 18/09/2012 20:52

What a lovely story - I am pleased for her too and I don't know her!! Huge congratulations, her perseverance and hard work has paid off!

tiktok · 19/09/2012 09:28

midori, I think I remember her story - great news she has battled and won :)

Would you be able to encourage her to write an account of the unhelpful HCPs so the maternity unit knows how crap the 'help' has been?

SarryB · 19/09/2012 09:40

What a lovely story!

needsadviceplease · 19/09/2012 10:48

Lovely! Well done her, and how lucky to have your support.

midori1999 · 19/09/2012 12:10

Thank you all.

Tiktok, I spoke to my line manager about it informally (I am an NHS peer supporter although this Mum is a friend) and she asked me to ask her to make a complaint as they've had similar cases like this recently and she can do this via them. My friend is definitely going to do this.

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