Breastfeeding help.

AF, please drop by the breastfeeding moms group. Those supplemental feedings gave your son nipple preference, and I'd like to take my baseball bat to whomever told you they were needed.. they weren't! Bret isn't old enough for that need yet. They need a tiny bit of colostrum in the first couple of days... just enough to dirty one dipe per day of life.

See a lactation consultant and ask for a supplemental nursing system. If the LC says "what's that?" then thank her for her time and WALK OUT... you don't want that LC.

I know you're stubborn enough to get through this... and stubborn is what's needed. Because you're going to pout all those bottles away RIGHT NOW. Don't touch them. No, baby will not starve.

Again, drop by the Breastfeeding Moms group. We've helped literally HUNDREDS of breastfeeding moms over the years. Every word you wrote above... *I* wrote myself 12 years ago. Got mine on the breast! We'll get yours there.

Call the lactation consultant, or maternal/child educator, at the hospital where you delivered. they should have a "warm line"

I had trouble with my youngest when he was born. He would scream bloody murder with each feeding. I brought him to the chiropractor. After a couple of adjustments, he nursed wonderfully.

I think he might have developed a taste already,, lol,, keep pumping and put in the bottle, he will get the hang of it,, congrats!!!!

Def join a breastfeeding group on this site and call someone from your local le leche league. Good luck!!

i had a preemie that stayed in the hospital for 26 days. during those days most of his feedings were formula. as soon as i got him home, i refused to give him any more. it took two days to "break him", but then we went on to breast feed until he was almost 2! it is hard, and you feel like you are starving your baby, but your baby will go back to the breast, as long as you do not give formula in a bottle!

just put your baby to your breast every time he is awake. and do not contact a lactation consultant, contact la leche league, and be sure to get your husband's support ahead of time, you will need it. if you can avoid mothers and mothers in laws for the next two days too, they may make you feel like giving up and giving a bottle!

hang tough!

You should contact your local LLL.. They can help. Or an IBCLC as mentioned. Try offering the breast before he seems hungry, if he's really hungry it can be harder. Try latching all the time. Spend as much time as possible in bed, skin to skin...topless so he has access whenever he wants it. A SNS is a good tool to get babies that are used to a bottle nipple to nurse, because it offers the instant flow like a bottle does, but he'll be suckling at the breast at the same time. I hate that you were told to supplement until your milk came in, its almost never necessary. I actually started nursing when my daughter was 5 days old, we had a hard time with latch, etc, in the hospital, so I gave up and went to formula. She was quite the colicky baby, and that night, DH suggested I just give it one more try, and I did, even though I didn't think it would work... well all of a sudden she just latched and nursed, like she knew

how to do it all along and was just tricking us or something...and it was smooth sailing from that point on. Keep at it , be persistent, you can do this if you want to.

are you getting engorged, that he is having difficulty latching? try pumping or expressing enough to soften your breast before nursing him. i had to do it with a couple of my kids because when i was full, they just could not latch.