Each time she implies that I'm out of touch with breastfeeding (Me? Me, who used to be a lactation consultant! Me, who nursed each of my three children for at least a year?), I feel my blood boil, but try to remind myself that she needs to explore her own options.
For weeks 1 16 of the subsequent lactation, treatment 125 ME increased milk fat content and yield but had no effect on food intake, milk protein content or onset of cyclicity.
Lactation consultants showed me the football and cross-cradle holds, offered nipple guards and feeding tubes, but nothing worked.
Fortunately, Cody took to the breast almost immediately the next morning, and the lactation consultant ordered me to pump after every time I nursed.
My OB suggested that I resort to formula feeding, but my pediatrician and lactation consultant gave me a larger menu of options to work with including supplementing, medication to increase my supply and a rigorous feeding schedule.
Everything was easier with him; my milk didn't come rushing in to make me engorged, I didn't suffer from borderline mastitis, and I didn't need a small army of lactation consultants to help me figure out what to do.
I went to multiple lactation consultants who told me her latch was fine, I just had extremely delicate skin.
The lactation nurses were telling me to feed, then pump an hour later, then feed an hour after that – all day and all night.
All mothers were fed to fully meet their ME requirements throughout lactation.
Nurses who are very attentive and patient, assist us the best they can, and a lactation specialist struggles to help me make progress.
