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Re establishing b/f at 4 days old

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tuffgingernut · 13/02/2015 11:58

Please help. breast fed baby for first two days but switched to formula for two days. Really regret this, my mood has taken a dip and I feel like a failure. Really need to re establish. Midwife has been and is fully supportive. Any advice, success stories really appreciated.

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tiktok · 13/02/2015 12:16

Go for it :)

It should be pretty easy to go back to bf at this very early stage - great you have your midwife supporting you.

Lots of skin to skin, feed your baby ad lib, and get everyone else to look after you :).

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tuffgingernut · 13/02/2015 12:20

Thanks. She's latching well. Really hope we can do this.

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EdYouKateShaun · 13/02/2015 12:20

Take yourself and you're baby to bed. Make the room nice and warm so you can lots of skin to skin. Do nothing but offer the breast and smell your baby's head. I think you should be fine. All the best.

OllyBJolly · 13/02/2015 12:27

It's possible. I breastfed a couple of days and then baby was taken to SCBU where they insisted on bottle feeding as it didn't fit with their routines to have her breastfed! Angry. Everytime I went to feed I'd be told she'd just had a bottle....

Didn't really establish breast feeding until she was discharged at 8 days. First couple of days were fractious (probably because I was so tense) but then settled down and breastfed for the rest of that year.

Well worth it imho - I couldn't cope with the faff of bottles etc.

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tuffgingernut · 13/02/2015 12:41

Thank you, all your positive experiences and advice is giving me a boost.

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Shinystar909 · 13/02/2015 12:46

I have a positive story!

For the first 5 days I formula fed. Never even offered my baby the breast. After 5 days I was fed up with all the sterilising etc and thought id just try it. Was very engorged and was in pain

Here I am now 8 weeks on breastfeeding my baby as I type Smile never looked back. At first she did want to be on the breast constantly but I think that was to do with getting my supply up for her. good luck!

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tuffgingernut · 13/02/2015 14:24

shinystar, thanks so much, your experience had definitely given me a boost.

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tuffgingernut · 14/02/2015 09:12

So, so far so good. My only concern is that dd hasn't opened her bowels for 14 hours now but has had plenty of wet nappies. Seems to be feeding well but how do I tell that she's getting enough?

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tiktok · 14/02/2015 09:30

Best thing is to have her weighed - either the midwife can call or you can go to the baby clinic.

EdYouKateShaun · 15/02/2015 13:31

Add far as I can remember my bf baby could go days without doing a poo. Something to do with there being very little waste from breastmilk.

tiktok · 15/02/2015 15:34

Not the case in the first weeks, Ed. Always needs checking.

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tuffgingernut · 15/02/2015 15:56

All seems to be going well here (I think) dd has had dirty and wet nappies now. Is feeding frequently, has had the odd top up which I'm working on reducing. Has lost a little weight but apparently nothing much to worry about. She will be weighed again tomorrow so I'll have a better idea of how she's doing then. Thanks all for your help.

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tiktok · 15/02/2015 16:15

That all sounds v good :)

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