Little one not bothered to breastfeed

Does anyone else have this problem or is it only me? 🙈 My little boy is 4 days old and has been very very lazy when it comes to breastfeeding. I have tried as much as possible to always put him on the breast first and I know I have milk coming through as I’ve expressed severally and giving it to him like that, which he takes without hesitation. He just can’t bother to put in the work 😅. He gets all red and bothered and frustrated if I so much as try to put him on my breast now. He immediately calms down and drinks almost an entire SMA bottle 🤣 in seconds. I have now moved on to using an electric breast pump to express and give breastmilk to him in a bottle 🙈 I wasn’t able to breastfeed my daughter because I ended up in ICU after giving birth, so I really don’t want to give up on giving him breastmilk now that I’m well and able.

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Like my little girl 😅. Once they introduced bottles in hospital to her cause my milk was not coming she refused breastfeeding after that and she wanted only the bottle. She started latching when she was 2 months old but didn’t stay more than 5 minutes on the breast. So I tried breastfeeding only for a few days and she was dropping weight so now I exclusively pump and she drinks the Breastmilk with bottle. 2 meals a day she breastfeeds.

Nipple shields helped me in similar situation

lol aww, yes he gulps the expressed milk up from the bottle 🤣 silly little man. He just can’t be bothered with the extra effort 😂 not the breastfeeding journey I envisioned lol but oh hey 😅

Just give it time and do extra skin to skin contact! He's still learning ❤️ try different positions too. If you have a Facebook there are great breastfeeding groups that have helped me a lot!

If you introduce bottles too early they always prefer bottles that way bottles not recommended at least first month

unfortunately he had low blood glucose the first 24h and I wasn’t producing enough, so it wasn’t by choice

Not sure if you've tried giving him a little of a bottle then putting him on the boob? If he's a sleepy baby somtimes they need a wee boost of energy to actually get them in the mood to take the feed. Maybe worth a shot. :) good luck

one of my nurses kind of pushed formula on me after my baby was born. I nursed her for 2 hours and then laid her down so I could eat, the nurse asked if I wanted her to walk her around my room I said sure and then she said baby seemed hungry still and asked if she could give her a formula bottle and I was hesitant but alone and starving so I said I guess so. We got stuck doing formula for a month since it was easier but I still tried latching baby when I could and thankfully we stopped doing formula after we ran out. Nothing wrong with formula though! I just really wanted to breastfeed ❤️ someone also gave my baby a pacifier, I think the person who did the hearing test but luckily baby stopped wanting them after a couple of months

so similar to my case. After I gave birth via c-section, I was in so much pain and when they removed the catheter I couldn’t walk and almost fainted from the pain. One of the nurses was saying to me why do you fake you’ve taken painkillers, I guess you wanna keep the catheter for another week. I was crying so much from the pain and her words and the baby wanted to drink so she saw this situation and said someone give to that baby a bottle cause she wants to drink. There was my MIL with me who immediately gave to the baby the bottle. And that was the beginning of a long and so difficult journey where I have done my impossible just to give the baby breast milk cause she wouldn’t latch.

i don't understand why some people become a nurse just to be mean to their patients 😭 I'm so sorry you went through that it sounds so awful!!

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

Postpartum

I’m only 3 days postpartum (FTM) and already have extremely bad anxiety. I’m crying every night, as I think of another night of no sleep. My baby will not settle in his cot, he cries every moment we put him down unless in his chair rocker. So me and my partner are having to alternate after 3/4 hours of being awake with him downstairs. I’m trying everything to get him to settle. It’s a load of overwhelming stress. I’m 23, I was desperate for a baby and now I have one and feel completely useless. I miss it just being me and my partner.

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!