Breastfeeding help

I'm struggling to understand how people do this 😭

I'm on day 3 and my nipples feel like they've been cut with glass. I cannot get baby to latch well. I've had advice from midwives and they've helped me multiple times now, and I always manage when they help, but as soon as I'm left to do it myself I just cannot get baby to latch deep enough and its so painful.

I tried expressing so I could still have milk to give baby but I'm not making enough milk yet for that to even be worth it tbh.

She wants to feed every 5 minutes, I can't keep up. My breasts feel empty and soft and she still wants to feed. I know this is because she's making my supply increase but it's constant. I can't do anything else, i can't put her down for anything, not even to go pee.

I have a toddler too and I'm just feeling tremendous amounts of guilt for not being able to even have 5 minutes to cuddle him 😔

How does this get better??? Please help!

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Baby struggling to poop

Hi guys,

(To preface this, we are taking him to the Drs today)
My baby is 2 weeks old and formula fed and for the last week, he has really struggled to poop.
He's passing some really hard paler yellow stools. Once he passes these, he seems to be able to get less formed stools out but it's still more formed than it should be at his age.
He's constantly straining, grunting and trying to go and none of the methods like cycling his legs, etc seem to work.

Have any of you come across this before?
What worked/what was the cause in the end?

From,
A Mam that just wants her baby to poop comfortably 🥺

Health visitor home visit

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At least it's giving me the kick up the bum to nest and get everything out the loft ready 😂

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