AFC84
Mama to One + Bun :)
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About time too! 
She's such a cutie, congrats
Sorry to hear about your crappy experience...sounds quite similar to mine except I only had my waters broken, didn't even have the drip and that kicked things off very quickly so I can only imagine the pain
Do you know if she was back to back? It's just that you had back pain and the fact that the dilating wasn't going anywhere fast, that's what happened to me and apparently it's because the baby's head isn't pressing on your cervix in the right way, so it takes forever
I also had a similar situation with both me and LO needing antibiotics, a week in hospital, and with the slow start for breastfeeding. I ended up getting a lot of one-on-one help on [I think] day 4 and it helped sooo much...we went from mostly expressing with a tiny bit of actual BF to just exclusively BF overnight. Would definitely recommend it. I'm also a GG cup currently and started off doing the rugby hold [mainly because of Finley's canula in his hand and me not wanting to hurt him] but the BF counsellor eventually got me to switch to the cradle hold because it's easier to feed in public that way. I just find you have to really tuck their bum in with your elbow, and that way it frees up some nostril space and they can breathe

She's such a cutie, congrats

Sorry to hear about your crappy experience...sounds quite similar to mine except I only had my waters broken, didn't even have the drip and that kicked things off very quickly so I can only imagine the pain

Do you know if she was back to back? It's just that you had back pain and the fact that the dilating wasn't going anywhere fast, that's what happened to me and apparently it's because the baby's head isn't pressing on your cervix in the right way, so it takes forever

I also had a similar situation with both me and LO needing antibiotics, a week in hospital, and with the slow start for breastfeeding. I ended up getting a lot of one-on-one help on [I think] day 4 and it helped sooo much...we went from mostly expressing with a tiny bit of actual BF to just exclusively BF overnight. Would definitely recommend it. I'm also a GG cup currently and started off doing the rugby hold [mainly because of Finley's canula in his hand and me not wanting to hurt him] but the BF counsellor eventually got me to switch to the cradle hold because it's easier to feed in public that way. I just find you have to really tuck their bum in with your elbow, and that way it frees up some nostril space and they can breathe
