UK breastfeeding mothers (sorry don’t mean to exclude), re. Lactation Consultants?
Did you have difficulty establishing Breastfeeding? Would you have benefitted from the ‘mythical’ Lactation Consultants? Did you see an LC? Do you think the NHS, who make such a big deal of BF, should train and employ BF specialists?
Personally, my closect LC was 140miles away (not exactly convenient for a home visit). I had great difficultys with my first daughter, I was basically told to work through them on my own – the midwifes answer to a poor latch was forcing my babys head on my breast, it was irrelevant that she was holding her so close in that she couldnt breathe.
I had problems for a long time. i had help in the unit where i gave birth, where i was lucky to stay for four days, but one of the midwives left me distraught one night after telling me i was just going to have to bottle feed, as some people just can’t breastfeed! this was after forcing me to pump for two hours, telling me i wasn’t producing enough milk for the baby, despite the fact it was only a couple of days since the birth and my milk hadn’t come in yet! eventually, after three weeks of sitting permanently on the sofa i managed to get baby to latch on – i wasn’t going to let that midwife be proved right! I heard the term lactation consultant, i even thought about trying to contact one, but had no idea where to start. my hv was fab and popped by the day i came home with the baby – after hearing me sobbing down the phone that i couldn’t feed my baby and she was starving and i didn’t know what to do! she was comforting, and tried to help, and assured me i was doing well, but i just don’t think she had the answers that a lactation consultant might have! Also half of my antenatal friends,all of whom wanted to breastfeed, didn’t manage to. Most gave up before they even left hospital, others when they were told they weren’t producing enough milk. I just think it is such a shame they couldn’t get the professional hel p that would’ve helped them continue!
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