Evening/morning ladies!
So my baby came a tiny bit early at 37+6 and wow, what a rollercoaster! I don’t wanna sound like an earth mother but I had such a good/positive labour and delivery but 4 days later we are still in hospital due to baby being a reluctant feeder and now jaundiced! I just want to say... I was set on breastfeeding and really struggled with it. My baby just wouldn’t latch so I was expressing colostrum, using a nipple shield, pumping all whilst on a busy ward and this time last night I felt like a failure and so miserable. My baby wasn’t getting enough food and it was affecting me massively (poor husband and midwives had to deal with multiple breakdowns)
This morning I decided to just go for formula and see how it goes... well there’s a different mum and a different baby and we are both so much happier and content. It’s not how I visioned it but that’s fine! Once I get home I’m going to try and pump and see how that goes in a more relaxed atmosphere but just wanted to say to any new mums, please don’t put pressure on yourself to be this “amazing mum” your baby loves you regardless. Good luck to all the mamas, it’s hard and those day 3 hormones were ROUGH but it’s so worth it.
(I’m sure I’ll be back with more breakdown stories lol)