I did raise my concerns to every midwife I saw for a week and was patted on the head and told to get on with breast feeding. My daughter was diagnosed with a TT after quite a bit of weight loss and being told it was my milk that wasn't good enough. Make sure you are well hydrated and eat lots of oats like porridge and flapjack and this will help increase your supply. I also found multi mam compresses excellent for relief and aid healing, you can get them in boots and well worth the money. You may have to supplement whilst you built up a small supply in the fridge, but then you'll be able express after every feed to make sure you help build your supply up.

If you do feel you wish to though if you're within a decent journey time of Cambridge or bury st Edmunds I can highly recommend a private specialist. Your baby can stay on it until you start tointroduce solid foodsat around 6 months when you might consider changing to follow on milks. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Our clear guide wilGood eating habits start early, so it’s important to teach your baby to eat a wide variety of foods during the weaning stage. Aptamil have gone to the effort of labelling every product with whether it is Suitable for vegetarians or Halal.So along with some expression for tonight's late night feed and more skin to skin in night with shields, hoping the formula will not be needed again!

In the meantime I was topping up with expressed and formula as well as feeding her so I know how hard you are finding it and how tired you must be! My silver cloud to introducing a bottle so early was they fact that my lg who is now six months will happily take a bottle if I go out or need a break whereas a lot of my BF friends can't leave their babies as they ring take one. Also regarding expressing, remember babies are a lot more efficient at getting the milk out than a pump, maybe your pump wasn't put together correctly, time of day can effect it, when baby last fed, your breasts will create what baby needs. In the early days you'll find eithe hand expressing or manual pump will be good enough for your milk. I was struggling thinking I couldn't get her to latch well as the amount of breast the MW wanted me to get into her mouth was ridiculous.I found the best way to help with sore nipples was to squeeze a little milk onto them and let them air dry. Although as my little one is getting older he has a 10/20min milk drunk power nap and is awake again. Determined to carry on BF and aiming to get tongue tie sorted privately as I cannot carry on like this in such pain dreading feeding times!

So the following day I panicked and just expressed every time she was hungry and gave her it in a bottle, that night I tried the breast again and she took it and since then I've been fine. We advise that all formula milks including the decision to start weaning should be made on the advice of a doctor, midwife, health visitor, public health nurse, dietitian, pharmacist or other professional responsible for maternal and child care, based on baby’s individual needs. It’s also worth noting, Aptamil class using Fish oils and Lactose (milk) in products as unsuitable for vegetarians. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services (setting your privacy preferences, logging in, filling in forms, etc. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.

Currently expressing from my sore breast using pump and managed to get 2oz off which is double what he had during last night. As required by legislation, First infant milk is nutritionally complete and suitable as a sole source of nutrition from birth and as part of a varied weaning diet from 6 months. I stopped worrying about putting a pillow up here and down there and this wrist pushing in here and the bum tucked up here and the tie a tie around your neck to lift up your breast.

My plan to avoid formula backfired this evening as I've simply not had time to express between feeds he's been that demanding.I just done what came natural to me, I was uncomfortable a lot of the time in the beginning, leaning over all sorts of angles instead of putting my feet up like the MW wanted me to (as much as I didn't end up doing what the bf support said, they did help me relax and know that they'd at least helped me do one good feed that day) but I did owhatever to just get my milk into my baby.