Hi everyone,
I had my beautiful son three weeks ago at 36 weeks exactly by c-section - my placenta had failed and was cutting off his blood supply to his brain, so he had to come out. The whole experience was actually lovely and not at all traumatic.
There is one photo of the delivery where LO is latched onto my breast. Since delivery he has not latched at all.
In hospital I fed him colostrum out of a syringe, and due to his size, the midwives told me he required a top up of formula which was initially fed to him in a cup and then when the amount increased this was done via premature bottles.
LO is now on four formulaformula feeds per night and during the day drinks my expressed milk. I try to latch him every feed but he was only latch when I'm wearing a nipple shield. I want to give up both the formula and nipple shields but this is absolutely exhausting on top of pumping whenever he is not attached to me. As much as it really pains me, I'm so tempted just to move to 100% formula.
Have any of the mums here been in the same boat and successfully transitioned to exclusively breastfeeding?
Thank you
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MrsS0322 · 12/10/2021 16:06
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