things that no one told me about bf

[Kalah]

Sorry you had a hard time, there were lots of things people didn't mention to me about it too! Like feeding very very often is normal and pain is normal etc... I had actually read something about BFing that said if it hurts you're doing it wrong so when baby was born and it really hurt the first midwife kept saying it shouldn't hurt at all! But another one said that's completely normal and my nipples just have to toughen up. Talk about mixed advice!

 

[fidget]

i was discharged from hospital within six hours of giving birth - and i'd only managed to get lucas to feed once and that was with the midwife latching him for me. i struggled to feed him for a week, feeling like a failure as the midwives make it seem like it comes naturally and i was really fighting with it. i finally got the hang of it but now at nine weeks he's chucking up breast milk but keeps formula down, and when i told hv i might just ff she was really discouraging and made me feel guilty

i'm another 24 hour bra wearer, i wake up in puddles of bm WITH a bra and breast pads lol

 

[fidget]

and i was told too if it hurts they're not latched properly, but it is awful for the first week and i used to sob whilst feeding

 

[shimmy]

If it wasn't for b&b preparing me for breastfeeding , I probably would have given up by now. It's hard and is only just getting easier but I love it and am so grateful nothing has gone majorly wrong. They really should give more information, all the negatives of ff are shoved in your face but no one mentioned the hardship of bf , no one should be made to feel bad about their decisions and its terrible that we still all do.

 

[Nervous_1]

I got thrush too, right from birth, and when I mentioned the pain I was just told that my latch was wrong. It wasn't but it took 2 weeks to convince people otherwise. I had to have tablets and LO had all sorts of treatments for weeks before we finally conquered it.

I think that was the hardest thing I have ever done, and I think I would have coped a lot better if I'd had support and encouragement. Thankfully I am stubborn so I persevered through, though I doubt I could have done it without the help of an old school friend and the lovely ladies on the BF section on here!

 

[wiiwidow]

Aw poor you, I had exactly the same complaint, no-one told me about thrush and how to prevent it. Even when I was prescribed antibiotics my mw didn't remind me that this could assist thrush in spreading! I had it from about 5 weeks to 9 weeks, by which point I'd been expressing and bottle feeding loads and when lo started latching back on he'd chew really hard so my nipples ended up a weeping mess again

I was diagnosed st the bf clinic with thrush and told to go to my gp, I was then prescribed the wrong treatment, went back a week later and was told I didnt have thrush by a gp who knew nothing about it, eventually was prescribed the correct stuff but that took 2 weeks to work. Arrgh!

Gutting but I gave up at 11 weeks too

 

[tristansmum]

i was totally unprepared for BF. thought it would be easy. well its not!

I had c section so milk was delayed, he would only use one side, its was agony, his gums were hard, my nipples bled, there wasn't enough milk... the list is endless.

so after much heart ache i stopped after a few weeks. best decision ever. it wasn't right for us. don't feel bad. you did your best. xxxx

 

[emilyjade]

 

[Maya23]

and i was told too if it hurts they're not latched properly, but it is awful for the first week and i used to sob whilst feeding

that is rubbish..it's not true!it can hurt even if the baby is latched on properly.

 

[Maya23]

Aw poor you, I had exactly the same complaint, no-one told me about thrush and how to prevent it. Even when I was prescribed antibiotics my mw didn't remind me that this could assist thrush in spreading! I had it from about 5 weeks to 9 weeks, by which point I'd been expressing and bottle feeding loads and when lo started latching back on he'd chew really hard so my nipples ended up a weeping mess again

I was diagnosed st the bf clinic with thrush and told to go to my gp, I was then prescribed the wrong treatment, went back a week later and was told I didnt have thrush by a gp who knew nothing about it, eventually was prescribed the correct stuff but that took 2 weeks to work. Arrgh!

Gutting but I gave up at 11 weeks too

The thing that upset me the most, it was my son having his mouth full of thrush ..it was heartbreaking
The doc treated me, but didn't treat him, and then he got it..and gave it back to me and so on and on arrrrgggghhhhh
And once I have given him a bottle , he was really rough on my nipples..and started bleeding..and I had to put a stop on it..I didn't want to be in pain no more and I didn't want my son to end up with my blood in his mouth either!

 

[wiiwidow]

Aw poor you, I had exactly the same complaint, no-one told me about thrush and how to prevent it. Even when I was prescribed antibiotics my mw didn't remind me that this could assist thrush in spreading! I had it from about 5 weeks to 9 weeks, by which point I'd been expressing and bottle feeding loads and when lo started latching back on he'd chew really hard so my nipples ended up a weeping mess again

I was diagnosed st the bf clinic with thrush and told to go to my gp, I was then prescribed the wrong treatment, went back a week later and was told I didnt have thrush by a gp who knew nothing about it, eventually was prescribed the correct stuff but that took 2 weeks to work. Arrgh!

Gutting but I gave up at 11 weeks too

The thing that upset me the most, it was my son having his mouth full of thrush ..it was heartbreaking
The doc treated me, but didn't treat him, and then he got it..and gave it back to me and so on and on arrrrgggghhhhh
And once I have given him a bottle , he was really rough on my nipples..and started bleeding..and I had to put a stop on it..I didn't want to be in pain no more and I didn't want my son to end up with my blood in his mouth either!

Gosh I know, it must be so hard to see your lo with it...it annoys me the doctors don't treat it properly, I was prescribed the treatment that should've been for my lo's mouth! so I took it for a week with obviously NO change! Even then I had to refer both doctors I saw to a website that could tell them what to prescribe and they STILL got it wrong!

It sounds so similar to my treatment...the sad thing is that my hospital were so good with the bf, they wouldn't discharge you until you'd shown you could bf twice on your own without their intervention...but then it failed at the gp treatment
I was even told that I didn't have thrush, this is by the doctor who didnt know what the treatment was and despite being diagnosed the day before by a bf specialist mw! Grrr