DS was born at 7pm last night with a vacumn delivery. He was quite unsettled and has a nasty bruise on his head and we weren't able to get him to latch on whilst we were recovering in the birth suite. The midwife then thought it was because of my positioning (I was hooked up to drips etc so couldn't really move much) and said to try him again when we got back to our room. Once we were put in our room I tried again as he was sucking on my arm and all around my breast but I still couldn't get him to latch so I called a midwife in. She didnt have any success in getting him to latch either and basically bullied me into giving him formula as she said I was starving him as it had been 5 hours since his birth at this point. From my limited experience the problem seems to be I have big breasts (F cup) but only have small nipples. I'm currently wearing nipple extenders to try and help this but I don't know what else to do and really don't feel supported by the hospital. I really want us to have a successful bf journey but I'm stressed that we are already off to a bad start and I'm not going to be able to do this. Adding to my worries is we tried hand expressing and only got a tiny drop of colustrom so what if I don't have anything there to give him?
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