Triple feeding trenches
Anyone else in or has been in the triple feeding trenches able to offer some words of advice? I had a traumatic and early c section at 36+2 with a large PPH. I was in hospital for 5 days with no feeding support, an inability to latch and vein told to “just give her formula” we had to push for an LC review and then when they finally came the day of discharge they offered little to no support. I told all the midwives she wasn’t latching, I was had expressing nothing and then pumping with no clue.
She’s now one week old and we’re in the depths of what I realised only yesterday is triple feeding and it’s breaking my soul. I waited for this baby for so long and after multiple losses she’s here and I’m finding it so incredibly hard and like it’s ruining this time together. I’m grieving that she’s never going to be this small again and I’m missing it.
I started seeing an IBCLC who I saw today but thanks to postpartum fog I can’t remember what she told me with our positioning and every feed is being met with distress by me. We also picked up a hospital pump today and started domperidone.
My partner wants me to reach out to services to support my MH and I’m seeing someone from the hospital as well.
Can anyone doing the same commiserate, or any successful graduates please tell me it gets better.