Are you asking anyone specifically Kelly or all of us in general?
For me, the midwives at the hospital kept telling me to feed Zander, keep him on constantly if I had to as he was getting dehydrated - few wet nappies, dry mouth, cracked & peeling skin around his mouth, constant screaming, low BSL, I think that was it. So I had him on for an hour off for an hour (probably, I wasn't timing exactly!) for around 18 hours & nothing had changed. In the end I was frustrated, he was crying, I was crying & I asked for a bottle. The midwife I asked questioned it & when I told her the above she just said ok here's your bottle. That day I went home (he was 3 days old) and for the next week we had a different midwife come to the house every day to check up on us. I told each one the same story & everyone was just satisfied with me giving Zander formula.
No-one suggested anything to help boost my supply or recommended an LC or anything like that. In new mum mode & after all the stress I had been through I wasn't in any frame of mind to think of these sorts of things myself. Dunno, that might sound like a dodgy excuse, but it's what was happening at the time for me.
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