Joined
·
255 Posts
Hello everyone. I've read through some of the advice you've given other mommas and it sounds so good I thought I would try and post about my "problem".
When my son was born I wanted to breast feed so bad. But, I had so many problems. The nurse at the hospital gave my son a binky after I told them I was against them. They did it because I didn't make it in time to feed him (I was a few min late) and he was crying (he was in the NICU for a few days because of a virus).
Ever since then he would suck so hard that it hurt. The ped insisted he wasn't getting anything because I had colustrum and that didn't have enough nutrition. I told him what I thought of that (that it was total bull) but he had the nurse give my son a glucose IV anyway which made him not want to eat.
When he would eat he would suck so hard. The LC said she had never seen anything like it before. I swear it's because of the pacifier. By the time my son was 3 days old I had blood blisters on my nipples.
Anyways, I remember that it was sooo painful I couldn't handle it. I would flinch every time my son would suck. I couldn't even pump, though I tried, because that was even more painful. We bought formula and I planned to use it only for a day so I could at least heal a little bit.
My son refused me after that. I called the LC and she "didn't have the time to deal" with our problems. No one else I knew had bfed before and so I felt very alone. I wound up giving up and giving him formula. He was refusing me. Flat out.
I didn't know about support groups or LLL then. I do plan on joining the LLL here. I'm pregnant with my second child and I want to try to bf again. But, I'm so afraid. I know that the majority of my problems were because of the hospital (one more reason I'm having the baby at home) and probably because I was a little dehydrated.
I plan on avoiding the "mistakes" of last time. But, I'm so afraid it's going to be painful and that I'll have blood blisters. I remember it felt like someone was stabbing my boob with every suck. I don't want to fail again. I plan to join LLL for support and I also thought I would ask for some on here.
Is there any advice you can give me?
When my son was born I wanted to breast feed so bad. But, I had so many problems. The nurse at the hospital gave my son a binky after I told them I was against them. They did it because I didn't make it in time to feed him (I was a few min late) and he was crying (he was in the NICU for a few days because of a virus).
Ever since then he would suck so hard that it hurt. The ped insisted he wasn't getting anything because I had colustrum and that didn't have enough nutrition. I told him what I thought of that (that it was total bull) but he had the nurse give my son a glucose IV anyway which made him not want to eat.
When he would eat he would suck so hard. The LC said she had never seen anything like it before. I swear it's because of the pacifier. By the time my son was 3 days old I had blood blisters on my nipples.
Anyways, I remember that it was sooo painful I couldn't handle it. I would flinch every time my son would suck. I couldn't even pump, though I tried, because that was even more painful. We bought formula and I planned to use it only for a day so I could at least heal a little bit.
My son refused me after that. I called the LC and she "didn't have the time to deal" with our problems. No one else I knew had bfed before and so I felt very alone. I wound up giving up and giving him formula. He was refusing me. Flat out.
I didn't know about support groups or LLL then. I do plan on joining the LLL here. I'm pregnant with my second child and I want to try to bf again. But, I'm so afraid. I know that the majority of my problems were because of the hospital (one more reason I'm having the baby at home) and probably because I was a little dehydrated.
I plan on avoiding the "mistakes" of last time. But, I'm so afraid it's going to be painful and that I'll have blood blisters. I remember it felt like someone was stabbing my boob with every suck. I don't want to fail again. I plan to join LLL for support and I also thought I would ask for some on here.
Is there any advice you can give me?