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My colostrum and milk never came in from last pregnancy will I be able to breastfeed this one?

Has this ever happened to you? I was in the hospital and heard all the horror stories of the colostrum and milk coming in, but it never happened. I never got my milk, nor did I leak in the hospital. What is up and how can I better my chances of my milk coming in this time?? I am wanting to breastfeed this one... Help please I leaked a little though out the pregnancy, but not much after my 7th month... I was induced and had my water broke... I was given potocin and had an epidural, but no meds past the epidural. I haven't talked to a LC yet, but will... I bottle fed my first daughter... My breast never leaked and I didn't even leak a few hrs. after delivery... I am totally confused...

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1. my sisters milk never came in...sometimes you need to put the baby on so it can stimulate the nipple and help bring the milk down. also you can try some heating pads.
2. My milk didn't come in by itself. I have Had three children and with each one what did come down was not enough to keep the baby from being hungry. The first time I stressed out bad and just went to the bottle. When that happened the second time I started just feeding what I had and if baby was still acting hungry( which was most of the time )after a month old, I used a bottle so baby got the nutrition needed but I kept starting out feeding him on the breast. it was good for both of us for closeness and I think healthier for baby to get at least half the meal by breast. The breat milk does help them to have a better immune system.
3. Hi, I have a few questions for you. Do you have PCOS or Thyroid conditions? Did you meet with an LC? Not leaking colostrum is no indicator of future milk production. Additionally, women make more milk with each pregnancy. All of your interventions with the birth of your baby probably did add to a delay in your milk coming. It can take up to 5-6 days for a mom's milk to come in with a difficult birth or csection. The good news is colostrum is all a baby need. Their stomach is the size of a marble and does not yet stretch. Pumping should never be an indictator of prodution in generall and colostrum is VERY hard to pump. What made you think your milk never came in? How were the diapers? Was baby fussy? Did you nurse often?(every 2 hours during day and 2-4 at night)New babies can be supper fussy and may want to nurse often for comfort and has nothing to do with hunger, it's also the babies way of establishing mom's milk supply. Did you supplement? Formula is a very slippery slop when it comes to milk supply. It is harder to digest and takes longer to digest than breast milk. Breast milk is very bio-available and so it is almost fully digested in 90 minutes( which is why breastfeed babies nurse A LOT in the first several weeks. breastfeeding works on supply and demand. When you give formula it takes baby longer to feel hungry, you go longer between nursing session and/or baby eats less from the breast, and you just signaled you body to make less milk. If your baby gulped down a bottle, that is not a good indicator of their hunger either. The bottle works very differently than the breast. Babies control the amount at the breast, but with a bottle, the nipple fills with milk, baby is obligated to swallow and in and in swallowing the nipple fills up again and so the pattern repeats. Get in touch with an LC before the baby is born!!!! This time nurse, nurse, nurse on demand and watch diaper-5-6 sopping wets and 3-4 poops is a good indicator of intake. Allow up to 3 weeks to gain back birth weight and take into account if you were given a lot of fluids because that can cause unnatural water weight to baby. If diaper out put is low, pump after nursing for 10 min. or an hour after baby fed. Use pumped milk to supplement. You need less Breast milk than formula as it is more concentrated and changes as baby grows. Breast fed babies only need an average of 25 oz in 24 hours. So, if baby nurses every 2 hours, then 2 oz bottle, 3 hours then 3 oz. and stay with slow flow nipples the whole first year. Breastfeeding does not have to be all or nothing. If you do truly have supply issues, which is rare, it does not mean you cannot nurse and bottle feed or use an SNS. Nursing is more than food, it is also comfort and security. Go to this web site www.kellymom.com - it is the BEST for accurate up-to-date information and has message boards for awesome help. Congrats on your baby and good luck!! Rachel-mom to Noah bf 27 month and Eleanor still going strong at 14 month
4. That's really strange, hon. When I had all 3 of my sons, it wasn't 2 hours tops, where I breastfed them after being delivered, one naturally and the other 2 by C-section. Of course, my breasts didn't feel heavy at all after they were born, it was 3 days afterward that the heavy milk came in. I think if you start them as soon as you can after delivery it stimulates you to produce the heavier breast milk, for the first few days, they will need the colostrum so try it with this one, just keep trying to breastfeed, just make sure you have a nurse nearby in case.