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HELP ASAP baby wont latch on was hospitalized for Jaundice and feedwith bottle!!
Please help!! My one week old baby girl almost refuses to latch on.
She was doing very well nursing initially but she was readmitted for Jaundice the evening we were discharged. I went to the hospital while she was under light treatment to breast feed her and they used a bottle when I was not there. We brought her home and had to take her back to the ER new years eve for Jaundice again and now she is finally home. But she does not want to latch on at all so I've been pumping and bottle feeding her. When I try to breast feed her she gets real fussy and starts crying I even try keeping my nipple there and there is plenty of milk I can squirt her in the mouth!! Any suggestions ASAP would be greatly appreciated. |
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HELP ASAP baby wont latch on was hospitalized for Jaundice andfeed with bottle!!
On Jan 3, 1:33*am, wrote:
Please help!! My one week old baby girl almost refuses to latch on. She was doing very well nursing initially but she was readmitted for Jaundice the evening we were discharged. I went to the hospital while she was under light treatment to breast feed her and they used a bottle when I was not there. We brought her home and had to take her back to the ER new years eve for Jaundice again and now she is finally home. But she does not want to latch on at all so I've been pumping and bottle feeding her. When I try to breast feed her she gets real fussy and starts crying I even try keeping my nipple there and there is plenty of milk I can squirt her in the mouth!! Any suggestions ASAP would be greatly appreciated. If I was in that situation... I'd wait until the baby was hungry... and take time... maybe about 15 mintues... and try during that time to get her to latch on. I think she is more likely to try to latch on after she realizes that is all you have to offer... she may try harder when she is hungrier. Only my opinion though. Good Luck |
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HELP ASAP baby wont latch on was hospitalized for Jaundice andfeed with bottle!!
On Jan 2, 10:33*pm, wrote:
Please help!! My one week old baby girl almost refuses to latch on. She was doing very well nursing initially but she was readmitted for Jaundice the evening we were discharged. I went to the hospital while she was under light treatment to breast feed her and they used a bottle when I was not there. We brought her home and had to take her back to the ER new years eve for Jaundice again and now she is finally home. But she does not want to latch on at all so I've been pumping and bottle feeding her. When I try to breast feed her she gets real fussy and starts crying I even try keeping my nipple there and there is plenty of milk I can squirt her in the mouth!! Any suggestions ASAP would be greatly appreciated. The hands-on help from a lactation consultant, or even a La Leche League volunteer, would be far more helpful than anything we can write on the internet. Get thee some in person help ASAP. Kate, ignorant foot soldier of the medical cartel and the Bug, 4 years old and something brewing, 4/08 |
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HELP ASAP baby wont latch on was hospitalized for Jaundice andfeed with bottle!!
mommak wrote:
If I was in that situation... I'd wait until the baby was hungry... and take time... maybe about 15 mintues... and try during that time to get her to latch on. I think she is more likely to try to latch on after she realizes that is all you have to offer... she may try harder when she is hungrier. It's important to realise that the strategy of getting the baby hungrier in hopes that this will make her more likely to suck can backfire in a newborn. A very hungry baby is likely to be too distracted and distraught to want to figure anything out, not to mention too uncomfortable because of being filled with wind from all the crying. Probably the best time to try to get a baby to learn to feed is when they're just starting to get hungry (turning head to the side, making rooting movements with mouth, possibly just starting to fuss) rather than when they're full-on ravenous. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com "That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell |
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