Breast feeding

The best way is to feed her, the more she feeds the more you’ll make. Milk should have come in around day 3 to 5 though

Idk why this came up on my feed because I’m in the American group lol but my advice would be to put baby directly on breast as much as possible. Baby’s saliva tells your body what to make so if baby is directly latching your body will figure out what to do. My first baby couldn’t latch well for the first 3 months but I kept trying to latch her several times a day and pumping whatever she couldn’t get out with the bad latch. We eventually figured out how to do it and she BF for 18 months. Also—tons of water with electrolytes!

You need to feed her on the boob and keep expressing it and baby will be better at getting it than a pump. Like Emily said, put baby to boob as often as possible. Colostrum is incredibly high calorie and sustains babies for a short while until milk comes in. Everyone's milk in comes in at around 5 days. If you haven't been feeding on the boob this will delay it. Your body won't produce what it doesn't think it needs, so if it's not being removed from the breast, it will think it's not needed and won't waste the calories to produce it.

First Try to put baby as much as you can on your breast Then Pumping and pumping : your body has to understand that your baby needs : so stimulate as much as you can = pump every hour/every 2hours max, 20min sessions, both breasts at the same time (best is to have a hospital grade wearable pump, check your health insurance about it if you can’t afford it they have options). At night as well, when you give the bottle, pump. It is a lot of work and ask to be very constitant but I promise in 1week only from only a little colostrum I had more than enough for my baby (had enough to EBF + store a bag in the fridge !) Good news is, even women who never was pregnant are able to breastfeed with this method ! Big luck to you, and take care, don’t put your health or/and mental health in danger for that, baby needs a happy mama

Oh wow, this is so useful. I only pumped twice today but will increase it to Allow flow. As for my baby, she gets very distressed so I end up giving her formula. As easy as it is to do that, I don’t want to miss out on giving her breast milk

I would also contact your midwife for some support they might be able to set you up with some breastfeeding support

I’ve had a midwife come out to me already, she’s shown me how to get her to latch but it’s also difficult when she starts crying for milk

I would keep an eye out for hunger cues, but what you can do is give her like a syringe full of milk or even on a spoon when she's starving crying then get her to latch. It'll settle her enough to latch as it's difficult when they're distressed. But easier to get on there before she gets to that stage.