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Is it inevitable that milk is delayed after a CS?

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bsmirched · 19/08/2013 23:09

Just that really! Had a CS with DS1 after a failed induction and it took ages for my milk to come in, resulting in him losing quite a lot of weight and pressure to supplement with FF.
I'm going in tomorrow for CS for DS2 and I was wondering if milk is always delayed with a CS or if some of you could offer more positive experiences?
(DS1 and I did crack it in the end and I BF for over a year!)

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harverina · 22/08/2013 21:27

My milk wasn't delayed - I too had an emc after a failed induction. The main issue for me was that dd was so sleepy due to the drugs I'd had so she wouldn't feed at all for 3 days. We were not pressured into giving a bottle though and just kept putting her to the breast until finally she fed!

bsmirched · 13/10/2013 16:30

Thought I'd update!
On day 3, my milk still hadn't come in - DS2 had fed and fed but had lost 12% of his birth weight. Fortunately, there was a fantastically switched on MW who was happy that he was perky, and that it was purely that my milk hadn't come in and did not readmit us (we came home on day 2) and come back and weigh him again the following day. My milk came in during the night, and he'd put weight on by the time she came.
We've gone great guns since then - he's following the 75th centile line he was born on almost exactly.
I just wish more mums were better informed about BF and that all the feeding babies do in those days before the milk comes in and cluster feeding are all perfectly normal and don't mean you won't have enough milk! I've learnt all that on here over the 3 yrs since DS1 was born. I have a friend with a new baby who was already mixed feeding by day 2 as she 'didn't have enough milk'

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