mamapo y I'll go along next week - it's on the same day as the hv clinic but I just wanted to get him home today because I was upset. I am slightly worried that in a breastfeeding support situation there might be pressure to breastfeed (for entirely laudable reasons) but that my circumstances might be that breastfeeding isn't what's right for him and that it's more important to get his weight up.
WL I haven't had him checked for a tongue tie. I'll ask the doctor about all that tomorrow. I ordered some fenugreek yesterday and some milk that a friend recommended after she had a lot of problems - her boy don't latch on for 6 weeks leaving a trail of astonished lactation specialists behind him, then suddenly he had a cold and maybe wanted comfort or something but decided to latch on. It is great to know that your daughter is doing well now. I think we can beat ourselves up about this too much if we end up on formula despite our best efforts. Our babies are still being fed after all!
yuletopian my little boy prefers his mummy too, which is completely normal at this stage. it can be hard on my husband as he had such a massive immediate bond with him, a bigger rush than I had. Lots of contact seems to help, including skin to skin, and finding a position for Z to doze on him that feels as safe to him as his current position of head on my boob curled up against my tummy. The other thing to bear in mind is that it's such early days and there's so much development to come. There's a video he might like of a time lapse of a man looking after his baby - it was on mommyish.com yesterday - which may make your husband feel better when he sees how well they play together after they surely would have gone through the same spell of the baby preferring mummy.