Hallo there
My lovely little DS was born 1 week ago today by emergency caesarean. Seems incredibly sleepy a lot of the time, bf well sometimes, but won't latch, or more often, will latch then comes off or takes two sucks then falls asleep at breast. Then he'll wake up a minute or so later and searches madly for nipple screaming angrily, but will not settle on either breast. Other times he latches, sucks a little but then goes fast asleep. Rarely seems to feed for more than five minutes at a time. Have absolutely NO problems with nipples, so I'm assuming that latch is OK!
He slept through night from 1 to 10 on first night home then was exhausted and dehydrated in morning, so we've been waking him and giving him a feed of expressed milk around 4 if he doesn't wake naturally - can't rouse him enough to bf at that time.
Have had a lot of advice from various midwives/bf drop in clinic woman, on positions, timing etc, much very good, some contradictory, but none of them seem to have a real answer to the falling asleep at breast/hardly suckling. Anyone any advice?