No breast milk yet - what to do?

Hi, I used to work on the maternity ward. We don’t worry for the first 24 hours but over that we suggest keep putting baby to the breast and also hand expressing & just giving baby what you can. Honestly the midwife who will visit you really is the best person to give you advice, they are the experts. Are you home? I’m surprised they’ve sent you home if baby hasn’t been feeding x

The more often you put your baby on boob the quicker your milk will come. Remember to drink plenty of fluids. This is where many young first time mums will doubt their abilities of feeding the baby with their breast milk. Give yourself time.

As above the feeding team should have given you some support to hand express. My milk took around 3/4 days to come in after birth. Keep latching baby as much as possible as this will also encourage milk coming in x

It’s very normal for your milk not to come in until around day 3. Their tummy is incredibly tiny atm and colostrum is enough for them even in small amounts! You can try hand expressing a little.

Lots and lots of skin to skin and latch baby as often as they’ll accept.

Introducing formula is a bit of a trap and it will delay your milk and affect your supply and can also stretch babies tummy.

Ask to speak to the infant feeding team for some support x