Hello to all. My four days old baby is having trouble latching up to the breast. I had a C section four days ago and was unconscious after the operation, so my baby had to be bottle fed. And I think the trouble really begun there, as the bottle teets are different than the actual breast tissue. I remained partly conscious for the whole day and wasn't able to breastfeed, so the hospital staff continued with bottle. Since the next day I tried and tried to breastfeed my baby but nothing worked. At first, there was enough trouble for me to produce milk, tried had expression, skin to skin contact and then there's milk. But again, I tried a lot to make him breastfeed but he's not able to latch up properly. It's been four days now and he's still bottle fed most of the time. I tried using a pump yesterday i.e on third day and gathered only 80 ml during the whole day but wasn't sufficient enough for him compared to easy and more subtle supply through a bottle.
I feel so disappointed and helpless while looking at my baby's face turning red while crying and looking for milk but unfortunately couldn't latch. I wept loads of tears in the past few days. I walked through some of the videos for breast feeding and everyone suggested to breast feed the baby within 1 hr. What should I do.
Please someone who had such an experience HELP.