I used to fight hard to breastfeed
However, in the end, I found that it was better to lie flat!
My baby and I were separated after birth, and he was sent to the neonatal unit after birth, and I was hospitalized in the ICU very weakly, struggling to squeeze out a little bit of golden colostrum. Although there is only a little bit of it, we all regard it as a treasure and send it to the baby to drink.
After returning home from the hospital, I found that the baby did not drink my breast milk, and the kissing was unsuccessful many times. One is that maybe my breastfeeding position is not correct, and the other is that he was born drinking milk powder to reject breast milk. Every time he tried hard, he couldn't drink and cry, and then his mother-in-law said: Don't drink it, I can't drink it after being hungry for so long! Then I took the baby away and said that my milk was too thin and bad, and I was deeply shocked
Want to give the baby breast milk not only did not get the support and encouragement of the family, but blamed me for starving the baby, so sad and aggrieved, advocating breastfeeding everywhere, I feel guilty that I can't even do breast milk, is it an unqualified mother?
Because there was no successful breastfeeding directly blocked the milk, it was so hard that it hurt like a stone to insomnia, and quickly asked the lactation teacher to help dredge it, fortunately, it was painless milking, which was tolerable.
Ask the teacher to help guide the feeding position, the baby still cried at first, and then tried a few more times to drink it smoothly. But not long after the nipples were cracked, every feeding was like a torture, the first few mouthfuls, like needles, electric shocks like pain, gritted teeth to endure, seeing the baby in the arms can eat milk is the greatest comfort. But the milk volume was insufficient, the teacher asked me to do a card to chase milk, 5 times the card is nearly 2k, (looking back on 2K is enough for milk powder money in previous months)
The experience of chasing milk is too painful and difficult!
Every day in strict accordance with the teacher's requirements, squeeze out or suck with a breast pump after each feeding, and the PP chasing method is also used behind, and the milk-pumping-feeding infinite cycle is day and night... Especially when the prolactin is high at night, it is even more crazy to chase milk. Diet: various food supplements, drink all kinds of soup, soup and water every day to induce milk.
Feeding once in two hours at night, sometimes 45 minutes at a time, and then going to pump and chase milk almost did not have a good night's sleep, too tired and the baby is particularly difficult to bring, easy to cry, sleepy, collapse again and again, a little postpartum depression.
After insisting on six months, no matter how much milk is used, the milk volume still cannot keep up, and there is no significant increase. My milk duct is naturally thin, and the milk outlet is small, each milk burst lasts for a minute or two, squeezed out a fine milk line, both sides are up to 120ml, no matter how hard you try, it doesn't help, forget it, I think it's time to give up.
No one stipulates that it must be exclusively breastfed, mixed feeding is also possible, and my baby has never been picky in terms of eating, all kinds of milk powder are eaten, why should I still pursue it, I understand that the mood is much easier!
Drink milk powder at meal, breast milk as snack milk, and milk sleep and drink, soothing hypnosis, my baby will not fall asleep on his own, only milk sleep and hold sleep he can fall asleep. After I went to work, my milk gradually decreased, and I was slowly weaned naturally, and there was no trouble of weaning. So don't be too anxious, breast milk is a choice not a shackle!
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