please help 2 day old DD not feeding, feeling crap!

[whitechocchip]

Hi my DD is my second child am really wanting to try and feed her myself.

She was born on Tuesday evening and has was feeding ok until last night.
She seemed settled and was feeding ok until last night at about 2am when she wanted to constantly be on the breast and was pulling up her legs and crying if she wasn't. (It was like a her having wind?!)So I kept putting her to both boobies. Finally at 6ish this morning I gave in to my need for sleep and she had an ounce of formiula through a teat. She seemes to settle instantly and has been content since?!

Now I have dressed and changed her and have tried to get her to feed from me and she isn't interested. Am now feeling desperate and a failure that I have given her nipple confusion and she'll only want to take a bottle?

What I'm asking is

1. Can I still TRY and feed her myself or have I completely shot myself in the foot and will have to formula feed?
2. What can I do to boost my colostrum supply if she isn't interested to keep up demand?

Or am I being impatient and hormonal and should just go with the flow and let her lead, sleeping when she is etc?

Please please please help me try and succeed in feeding

xx

Keep trying. I gave birth on Sun and had the same prob on day 1,2 and 3. Ds wass much much better yesterday and last night, your milk normally 'comes in' on day 3 when it should be much easier. ds is sleeping loads and I'm just letting him lead us, as long as he wakes for feeds he's in charge.
dd's constant feeding is good as it will stimulate your milk production so keep at it and good luck.x

Hi - congratulations to both of you btw!

I had probs & MW gave me a small (sterile) syringe into which I picked up a ml or so of expressed collostrum - pick up from the nipple - then drop this into babys mouth/on lips to let them get the taste and interested then put them to the breast. This worked great for us.
You can keep using syringe if you clean well and steam sterilise between uses - took 24 hrs to get turnaround.
HTH xx

Congratulations on her safe arrival

I suspect she is hungry but the only way your Milk will come in is to put her on the breast and let her stay there as long as you can tollerate it. If she won't feed you will need to express, you need Hunker to come along and give you more qualified advice but I think it is a minimum of 8 times a day????

She may not be hungry yet after the Formula. Don't panic about nipple confusion, it was one feed.

Definately sleep when she does, do nothing else but sleep and feed (her and you) for the first few weeks, I wish I had as I got myself in a state trying to keep everything going.

Good Luck, I bet that within 2 days you will be back moaning about engourged breasts and lakes of Milk on your lap

Thanks for all the quick replies, I really feel desperate at the moment but know that it won't change until my milk comes in

Looks like I should be sleeping when she sleeps and just enjoy trying to be up cluster feeding in the night!

I really want to feed her myself so am going to try and relax and go with her lead as she seems to be in control.

Thanks so much.

Any replies and tips still greatly received.

ps am going to nap now but will check back again asap

xxx

Forget about night and day for a few weeks too. There is some really funny stuff on TV at 3am When your Milk comes in she may well sleep a lot of the time as she is full up only waking to feed again really. Eventually things will settle down and she will feed with spaces of an hour or so during the day and then "cluster feed" in the evening. The spaces get bigger very gradually as they grow.

Some babies don't cluster feed at all and will have one big feed then sleep for hours but mine was as I have described above. You may be lucky

I found lying down with DD next to me easier for latch early on too x

Congratulations! PLease try not to worry cause this will get better. I agree with all the other posts but would also say that both my DC's loved lying next to me, both of us naked doing skin to skin feeding. I think they really do love the comfort of skin and smell in those early days and that boosts production etc Take it really easy, rest loads, eat well and try and enjoy it all. good luck.