Interventions during labor equates to troubles BF? - Page 2

[Kama82]

I thought I would reply here because I know when I was having supply issues I could have really used some hope. We had a terrible time at first but I consider my story a happy one. My daughter is 5 1/2 months and is now EBF and very happy and healthy (and quite chunky!).
I know your situation is not the same (everyone has unique circumstances!).
First of all your doing a GREAT job. Even if you have to give her 4oz or 8oz of forumla a day, compared to all the breastmilk she is taking in that is not much. Even if you always have to do one bottle of formula a day that is great, just think how many bottles of formula you would be giving if you were not nursing.
I 100% agree with you that labor inteventions effect production. In fact it seems absurd to me that any Dr could suggest that they don't. I had a very high intervention birth that ultimately ended in a c section.
I am living proof your supply does NOT peak at 2 weeks. It took FOUR weeks for my milk to come in, and another two after that before I could quit supplementing. I do believe it could have taken longer and that if I had kept it up eventually my body would have clued in.
I could give you a long list of things that might help but if I want to try to keep this short. The only thing I haven't seen mentioned is co sleeping. My girl is an all night nurser and co sleeping *really* helped increase my supply.
The first 6 weeks were very very hard for me. Now we EBF and I feel honored to have this nursing relationship with my child. There were times I hated it and wanted to quit but thinking of the happiness I would have denied myself if I had given it up breaks my heart.
So supplement if her wet diapers are low, but don't let anyone tell you its one or the other. There is no reason you cant do both (sns, cup feeding ect really help prevent nipple confusion but it looks like you had this covered).
I thought it was an all or nothing thing but I realize now that even if my supply had not built and we had to do some formula every day that I would treasure every nursing moment I was able to have.
Wow this got long afterall. Your doing a great job. There can by happy endings to low milk supply stories.

[North_Of_60]

We kind of co-sleep. She falls asleep in bed nursing and then I move her to her bassinett for her 6/7 hour stretch, then bring her back to bed when she wakes at 5. I do this for various reasons. One being that I almost suffocated her when she was 2 weeks old. Thank God my husband woke up. So now, during my soundest sleep, she's safe in her bassinet. She also doesn't nap during the day, so I'm hapy to let her sleep like the log she does for those 7 hours. I do pump after she's asleep, though.

[melbb]

I believe this is true for some people. My water broke before labor. I waited 12 hours to see if I would go into labor naturally, but didn't. So I had to get pitocin. Audrey ended up being in the birth canal a long time and was not positioned well, so she had to get the vacuum, too. She had blood type incompatibility jaundice, too. So she wouldn't BF at birth. She had to be trained to suck properly as she wanted to thrust everything out of her mouth. And she had a weak suck because of the jaundice. She did BF after 3 weeks, but it never went well. She went through multiple refusals, screaming at my breast. We only BF 2.5 months and now I exclusively pump, which sucks. It has been a very sad experience for me and one that I still grieve over. But I know people with babies that have jaundice, or get the vacuum, and their babies BF fine. So I guess it depends.