This is my second, breastfed my DS for 2 years but I'm back to square one again here and today I have cracked nipples :(.
My milk came in really quick, end of first day and she's been feeding well, 8 merconium nappies in first 24 hours and this has continued, slowing today, she is a little jaundiced, not feeding every 2 hours like I made sure my previous child was( he was extremely jaundiced, 6 hours of pushing and he was full of mucous so didn't want to feed). She fed on and off for 2 hours in the night and a big feed this morning.
To ease the bloody nipple situation I'm pumping on the really sore breast and my husband is giving her that milk with a syringe.
I just wanted to know if you have any advice, I'll speak to the midwife today, we did work on the shallow latch yesterday but it's not improved even though I did a feed in front of the midwife and all seemed fine, got a lovely bloody crack on my right nipple ouch and it comes out of her mouth that lipstick shape.
I'm anxious because I went through hell with DS getting breastfeeding established, he was almost in under the lamps for his jaundice, just don't want to go through that again. Midwife thinks she's getting loads of milk already but I won't know till tomorrow when she is weighed.....
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3 day old newborn, need help re breastfeeding and poor latch
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Afrodizzywonders · 10/12/2012 08:52
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