X post with post natal but need specific bf advice too please...
Baby T (DS1) was born yesterday early morning. My birth story reads as bad romcom childbirth, I'm sorry... and worst of all, I feel ungrateful for feeling horrid about it... Please please don't flame me. I really feel for worst labours than mine but I really could do with breastfeeding support...
Was a planned HB that ended up at the hospital as we didn't have time to call the MW and taxi there was quicker. I transitioned in the bathroom for 15min thinking labour had stopped (2h mild contractions 5 minutes apart & dancing in the shower, just before we were at a restaurant with friends) and ended up with back to back pushing urges, a very calm DH and a stoical uber driver who just ran a red light at the sound of "I can feel the head". I'm just getting over the shock of what seemed to me the most primal, sudden and painful 15 min of pushing ever. I know they can be awful and I'm sensitive to ppl with long labours but tbh I'm off to the see a counsellor asap as I was forced on my back in stirrups (baby HB decelerations) and threatened with forceps.
Baby T was rather shocked too but spent his first 12 hours very alert and happy. Then the night came and hell broke loose basically. Must sound stupid to non FTM but I didn't know your milk could come in so early and I was left with massive leaking boobs, a baby that needed suckling all the time because of colic and colic made worst by all the milk he was having without me realising. I realise my chance, I do, he has an excellent latch and I have abundant supply but after 4 hours of him screaming bloody murder and me crying my heart out, trying to comfort him by walking up and down the corridor with stitches still very sore, the night MW took him to the nursery and gave him a paci!!! I felt awful. I still do.
Now I try to space feeding to a min of 2hrs (shamefully using a makeshift paci made out of a nuk firstborn teat) and I got my DH to bring the caboo close which helps. I've not put him down since 8am but he's back to happy between farts. He's not had a BM or urine since 6am though so I'm getting worried.
WWYD in that situation? I'm dreading the night...