Please please please.. any advice at all out there..
My baby boy is 4 days old today, originally was exclusively breastfeeding since birth. Yesterday we hit our first major bump in the road, baby just wanting to feed constantly, nipples were on fire and I couldn’t get him to latch properly. Alongside the complete lack of sleep since my 18hour labour 4 days ago and suffering with major baby blues I was an absolute wreck. So I gave in and my DH gave baby a formula feed just to keep him going and to try give me a break.
Saw the midwife and my mum etc, with lots of support and advice I carried on with breastfeeding just fine. I’ve now got my milk coming in and my breasts are so engorged and swollen my poor baby just cannot latch at all. It’s practically impossible to get my nipple to him because my breasts are like solid, lumpy bowling balls.
We had a few little bottles of formula left, so after hours and hours from last night til now of me and baby both crying and screaming the place down, we used those just so my poor baby wouldn’t starve. Just trying to struggle through now til morning so I can call the midwife again at 9 to come back out to see us.
I had a really bad labour and birth, so I’m desperate for the breastfeeding to stick so I can bond with my baby boy. I know I probably shouldn’t have ‘given in’ to the formula so early, but after literally 6 hours sleep since my baby was born 4 days ago I already feel like a failure as a new mummy as I just want to give him the best I can.
Anyone at all with any advice on how I can get through this engorgement stage and carry on breastfeeding, I really really want to make this work for me and baby.
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DESPERATE, please help, day 4 breastfeeding engorgement
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ashaj92 · 06/11/2017 04:35
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