Breastfeeding case study of Baby Aarya – 5 weeks, from Hemisha
Birth
Delivered at 40 weeks 1 day – due date 19th Dec arrived 20th Dec 7:30am.
Induced on 19th Dec 1:40am, went to hospital with pain – on swab test confirmed waters had broken although I had no sign of this. Antibiotics drip given and induction started.
Upon arriving at hospital I was 0 percent dilated. Epidural given at 2 cm dilated.
Temp went up in labour – antibiotics given orally after delivery.
Discharged on 21st Dec, breast feeding specialist at the hospital did come to have a chat and help but baby latched for 2-3 min and came off shortly after. No further help was given.
Since birth
Suffered from haemorrhoids, with extreme pressure and pain and was triaged at hospital. Had a lot of pain after bowel movement and could not express or pump much and could not try to get baby to latch or provide much skin to skin.
Formula bottle introduced from day 3 of birth.
Shortly after this I contracted covid which made me feel even weaker and symptoms lasted 12 days. 1 vaccine was taken at time of contracting covid.
Staying with my parents currently receiving great help and support
I really wanted to breastfeed my little one but encountered various circumstances within the last few weeks. Feeling quite low and stressed that I am not able to get my baby to latch. She roots to the breast when she’s hungry but can accept the nipple and immediately comes away despite trying.
Current schedule
No real schedule at the moment- each day seems different.
Aarya normally wakes up at 7am- 8am.
Currently expressing with very little in 30min maybe 1 oz collected. If I express again in 2 hours not much comes out.
Baby is feeding on Aptamil powder formula. Much more formula than expressed breast milk as not producing much via expressing.
Usually 8 wet diapers a day and 4 to 5 dirty nappies per day.
Quite gassy and on passing bowel movement there is quite a lot of straining.
Colic sometimes due to drinking fast when hungry but generally does pace herself for the feed. Tommee tippee antic-colic bottles used.
Currently feeding on demand 3 oz seems to be the average amount per feed. Averaging 600ml per day.
Alert and playful for 3 to 3 hours per day.
Wakes up every 3 or 4 hours at night – formula given and goes back to sleep.
Baby sleeps on moses basket but needs a little rocking and then is settled in the moses basket.
Other notes
I would really like to breast feed my baby, however I have lost confidence as she is not able to latch despite efforts over the last 8 days from various sources such as different breast feeding positions and also health visitors.
Want to be able to breast feed baby and also get enough expressed milk to give via bottle.
Have not tried nipple shields yet.
Concerned I have low milk supply and how to improve this.
