I don?t know if you get many messages from blokes but I?m really desperate. My partner and I have a 10week old and feeding has got steadily worse since birth. We are now at crisis point. He will not take a bottle and we?ve been trying him (feeding same time most days) since 4 weeks old. He has taken a max of 2ozs at any one sitting but usually it?s less than that with most spat out. The thing is we really need him the bottle now as for the last 4 weeks he?s lost his latch and is really hurting my partner (she regularly cries through the pain of feeding). We don?t know where to turn as two breast feeding counsellors and the health visitor have been unable to help ?their advice is keep practising! We daren?t go cold turkey and basically starve him into accepting the bottle as he has a blood incompatibility thing going on resulting in jaundice so we have to feed him as much as possible in order to flush the jaundice out. We need to either get him to regain his latch to stop hurting my partner and/or take a bottle to give her respite (mental and physical).
It?s making our whole lives a misery as my partner is now in constant pain during feeding and is mentally dreading it constantly and we just don?t know where to turn ? please help.