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Hi!

I can't find a thread for breastfeeding chat; so thought I'd start one.

I'm a new Mum to Jac (10/4/19) and he's my first baby. I haven't made it to a local breastfeeding group yet, so would love the chance to chat here. It was a difficult start and I still have so many questions...

Anyone want to join? Introduce yourself - I'd love to hear from you 😁

@avocadoincident I started TTC for #2 when #1 was 15 months (which was when my period returned) and got pregnant when she was 22 months. I'm going to TTC for #3 soon but I might need to grow a third boob DC1 was happy to feed right through pregnancy, my supply didn't drop until it changed to colostrum at 16 weeks but never dried up completely.

@AllyMcBealmademe I agree thank god for breast feeding but really saved the day after she had all her injections.
I've decided to drop the term 'extended feeding' and just use natural term ending. I feel like extended sounds as though I'm dragging it out, whereas in reality we are going to it's natural end.
(I'm also using the term 'artificial' instead of formula.)

Joining please. Had baby at midnight on 17th, tried to hand express colostrum as stuck in hosp and she was in special care, hosp gave me a pump which I got 41ml of colostrum out yesterday over 4 pumps (first time pumping) she latched on properly lastnight for over 2 hours and now my boobs are huge and defo have white milk! Impressed by how it's all happening. Will read thread and be back, hope everyone and their little ones are ok xx

Hi xJune88! Congratulations on your little one. I never got the hang of hand expressing at all so well done! I would just say that bfing can be hard in the first few weeks, but hang in there, ask for help, it is totally worth it! (Writing this while laying on bed with dd2, 7 months, having her morning feed. Half asleep & mumsnetting - can't do that with a bottle!)

Congratulations @xJune88!!

Congratulations!!

I am so torn about whether to carry on breastfeeding or not. I was away from DS (15 months) for 24 hours at the weekend and he did not cope as well as expected, OH said he was quite grumpy and woke up lots in the night and it's put him off his idea of looking after DS for a week in the summer while I go away. I figure he'd probably cope better if he's not breastfeeding any more but I also don't really want to stop.

Congratulations !!!

Natsku - I personally think that ff or bf babies would all be grumpy if their routine changed suddenly, especially if they’re older. It’s probably better to get your OH more involved routinely so that baby is happy with daddy doing nighttime.

Thankyou all. Today has been trickier, shes latching fine but the first 5 seconds, wow the pain is real. Haha xx

MrsGrannyWeatherwax

Good point, I should definitely get OH to do more of the routine stuff like bedtime so they both get used to it. He's great with taking him out or playing with him but not the routine stuff (and still has to ask me to pack his bag and get him dressed - urgh). DS very much likes to comfort nurse though throughout the day, not for milk but just using me as a dummy but he won't use an actual dummy any more so there's no replacement for that if I'm not around.

xJune88

Those first few seconds are toe-curling, aren't they?! It will get better soon enough

Seconding this:

Those first few seconds are toe-curling, aren't they?! It will get better soon enough

It really does get better though. Effortless (and painless!) after a couple of weeks.

Has anyone tried a power pumping exercise?! 🙈 you do it over 3 days. I’m trying it just now as baby is still taking formula during the day. So far have managed between 2-3 ounces. (I know it’s not as powerful as baby sucking). I can feel myself becoming not as enthusiastic about breastfeeding but I just don’t want to lose it yet. It’s such a pain sitting with the pump though. lol xx

Hiya,

I'm joining also. Had a little boy on the 16th and we've been working hard on establishing breastfeeding.
Holy guacamole was I unprepared for how difficult this was going to be. I always just assumed I'd pop him on the boob and boom.

The opposite is pretty much what's been happening.
My little boy was jaundiced and had to get some light therapy and the hospital staff mentioned he's got a tongue tie too, so the start was not ideal.

For the time being I'm expressing every feed and offering him top ups of the expressed milk as we are currently a tad stuck.

He's latching on fine most of the time but then only sucks for a few moments before doing nothing...

Yesterday evening and this morning we had 2 successful feeding sessions of approximately 25 mins, so I feel like we're finally getting somewhere... long may it continue!

Had a bad day yesterday it was so painful I couldn't even put her on me! Sat for 2 hours at one point with her sucking, took her off, bottle of formula and she settled so I must of been empty. Today seems to be better but I have a good and bad side so keep expressing that. X

@xJune88 hope you are getting on better today??? 2 hours does not sound much fun!! X

Unfortunately not! Thought it was all going too well. Nipples are too painful for me to put her on I'm gutted. I keep expressing and hope I'll be able to try again but my milk cant meet her needs shes hungry constantly and I'm not producing enough so having to top up with formula x

xJune88 are you sure it's hunger? Sometimes they are just miserable little sods at this point who want to latch on for hours on end just for comfort.

Yeah bottles after bottles of formula x

@xJune88 oh no sorry you are struggling!! Have you tried the lanolin (purple tube) it really helps with the nipples even straight away!! I still use it occasionally after nearly 5 weeks. I hope things get better xx

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