Ash - we have had to get Jason colief. Infacol wasn't helping. Marks grandma passed last Wed at 2am. She lasted 12 weeks 1 day from diagnosis. She is at peace now. Funeral is this Thursday which is going to be difficult. The family have asked us to take Jason and marks aunty Is flying home from Canada for it. I'm just so glad Mary got to meet and spend time with Jason. Talking of which he was 10lb the Fri before last. He's started smiling loads and is in his own cot. I'm having a lot of issues from the spinal and epi together. Got to have more blood tests this week. Hope everyone is ok. Will have a read and bbl x
Ummmm..... Can I share your thread? It appears no one birthed in June except me, and July bellybuddies thread was quiet too.... I could do with a thread to join...
Peanut arrived on 20th June so is only a week and a half old. BFing has proven challenging especially as the hospital had me topping up with formula and waking her to feed 3 hourly during the day and 4 at night. We saw a LC on Tuesday which was great, bit while over hot the theory about how to get the latch right... In practice it's still challenging and I feel like we spend the feed in a perpetual state of on and off and on and off.... I've found it much harder than I hoped. Tell me it gets easier.
Hi my turn, welcome and congrats on your little peanut.
Yes the latching and bfing in general does get easier.
My little girl turned 5 weeks yesterday and although we're still doing mixed feeding my LC is working very hard with me to help me get my supply back, which dropped when I had to stop feeding due to cracked and bleeding nipples from bad attachment.
After a bit of time off and perseverance bub is feeding nicely now and attaching well, she just needs more milk from me to give the formula the flick.
I had always thought and expected bfing to be a lovely bonding experience and an enjoyable part of motherhood, I had NO idea how challenging and difficult it could be.
Stick with it and work with the LC, you'll get there. Although I'm still working through the challenges myself, it's much more pleasant now that our attachment has improved and I'm enjoying the time I spend feeding/bonding with my little girl now.
How are you finding motherhood otherwise? Getting any sleep? Lol
I'm exactly like Shanleem Myturn, I struggled from day 1 with cracked bleeding nipples and low supply and ended up supplementing with formula. Im also trying to wean out formula and feed exclusively. Im on Domperidone from Doc and getting advice from ABA. I also found reading Dr Jack Newman from the NCIB's website and his videos brilliant. Im having to use compression when I feed as I have a lazy drinker who looses interest when my flow slows down and he uses me as a pacifier! So I have to compress to get him drinking again. I've heard feeding gets easier from 6 wks onwards. Im still working on it at 5 wks including a good latch. Im hoping like you it gets easier. I may never get a 100% supply but I'm trying! Good luck and keep us posted. There's also a Facebook page for May Mummas if you're interested. Welcome to the thread
Welcome and congratulations myturn. BF can definitely be hard work, even with my third bub it wasn't easy. I hope it improves for you quickly.
Footsteps I am sorry for your loss
Little miss is 6 weeks now. She put on about 1kg and 7cm in length. We are struggling a little with wind but seeing the osteopath. She has a cold at the moment too so not a lot of sleep happening, I've become an expert at dozing while mostly sitting up with her on my chest lol.
BF is the Domperidone working for you? I've been on it to 2 weeks now and not seen a big change in supply and have been advised by LC to increase to a double dose to see if that helps.
Just popping in regarding Domperidone. I used it for 13 months and initially built up to 9 a day under guidance of a LC. It requires a high dose usually to have any effect. Also water intake and Herbs of Gold Breastfeeding Support at 5 a day (build up to it) worked for us as I have diagnosed low supply.
Hi myturn! Your more than welcome! Hope the bfing gets easier for you. Your doing a great job. In fact all you struggling mums are. I have been so impressed by the perseverance in this group of mammas! I have never had a really hard time like many of you. I mean my first it was harder, but not as bad as many, but having done this three times I have watched on as so many mums have struggled. So often they just decide that they wanna spend their time doing something different, and that's cool, but I have been really surprised by the tenacity and dedication to bfing in this group. You guys are doing great! I have no idea if I would have fed so much if it had been half as hard as what some of you have had to cope with.
I had so many problems breast feeding! Amelia was born with a lip tie and her tongue was short so she had a really bad latch (instead of sucking she would just chomp at my nipple!) which caused bleeding/bruised/cracked nipples and I also have flat nipples! We were a match made in hell! Haha we tried nipple shields but because of her latching problems they just didn't work!
I'm now express feeding but I also have a low supply so I express her morning feed and her nightly feed and the rest is formula.. I have been trying to express more during the day to build my supply.. I also feel like my milk might be going, every time I express I feel like I am getting less and less out..
I want to give her as much of my milk as possible but it's looking pretty bleak. So long as I can still give her some everyday I am happy with that!
Thanks lovelies. I had the MCH nurse visit today and she has put on 140g since Tuesday, exclusively breastfed - such relief! So she is back to birth weight by two weeks. We are still working on the latching, but it's definitely better, and I know how to fix it now. I'm also managing to pump and store some in the freezer. Which feels good.
I think the universe (or god or whatever you believe created the world) got it wrong.... From an evolutionary perspective BFing should be so much easier.....
How is everyone's bub sleeping? I put A down after her night feed at 9pm and she wakes up at 1am and then 5-5:30 so I'm very happy and feel quite rested!
My A goes down at night after a feed at around 10-11pm and will wake somewhere between 3-5, then will wake again between 7-9 depending on what time she fed during the night. So I'm really happy with how she's sleeping.
Apart from today, which for some reason she's not wanting sleep, she usually sleeps for 2-3 hour stretches, often I have to wake her for feeds.
It's working out so well that I've managed to go out for lunch 3 times, and out for dinner with hubby and bub once already. She just slept her way through each time.
Shanleem I'm on 2 tablets x 3 times a day. Doc said if I don't see a difference by the end of the month that I probably won't. Fingers crossed.
Emmalee that's what I was doing a feed at night and morning but I'm feeding every feed now and topping up with formula. Well done on persevering and giving A some of your milk! Ad sleeps from 10 to 1 and then until 5am, pretty happy with that although I think Its the formula! If I go exclusive bfeeding I think we may be up more often!
BF I'm on the same dose as you, and feeding the exact same way. BFeeding from both sides then topping up with formula.
I think the meds are working, just slowly. I leak all the time now and I wasn't getting that before. I certainly could not ever go without Brest pads. But A will take an almost full formula top up at every feed, so either she's just a guts and/or having growth spurts or the meds affect on my supply is not enough yet.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for both of us that it works.
What is A taking Shanleem? Ad is a very hungry boy! He feeds both sides then will take anything from 60-100ml Aptamil Formula! He's 5kg already! He's got a chubby little face now lol!
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. Hope your back gets sorted soon too.
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