Please can anyone offer any advice or tips? I've been to a breast feeding class, a group, spoke to midwives at the hospital straight after birth and the one now allocated to me. I couldn't get my ds to latch so the hospital insisted on feeding by cup, then the wouldn't let me leave until I agreed to bottle feed. I hired a pump and managed to get my milk going and have been feeding breast milk by bottle and trying him on the breast. He only properly (so it isn't painful) latches 1 in 10 times and when he does he tends to fall asleep. I've been told to stop with the bottle entirely as its confusing him and mist keep offering the breast and remove him if he isn't properly latched. I can't get him to open his mouth enough, or when he does he seems to move his mouth after a few seconds so he's back to just having the nipple in his mouth which is agony as he grips so tightly. The problem we are having seems to vary. He either seems like he can't be bothered or goes for it and attacks my nipple. I'm so desperate to succeed but don't know what to do!
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02/03/2013 08:31
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