Very fustrated bub at breast

[MantaRay]

These longs weekends without medical services readily available are really hard for new mums

Babies usually attach better when they are calm too. If she's crying, try to calm her a bit before attaching - maybe by letting her suck your finger if that helps. Looking for the early hunger signs can help too - bobbing head, sucking fist etc, rather than waiting until she is crying with hunger. If she sleeps right up to waking for a feed it makes it hard but calming her before attaching might help here.

[caixin]

Mantaray: She does indeed attach better when she's calm but sometimes if we feed her too early just when she's starting to mouth and turn her head she falls back to sleep almost immediately once she's on then comes off the breast. If we wait till she's crying then she doesn't feed very well either. So I'm till trying to find that balance.
I've tried to express before feeding and it seems to help for the right breast as she attached well this afternoon on the right but still refuses the left. Makes it hard for me to judge how much she's had as she would only drink about 10 ml of the EBM that I offer her after. She's often too worked up for me to try the baby led attachment but will try to if I get the opportunity. Babies can be so hard to read, not coming with an instruction manual!