Hon, before you stress yourself out about producing enough milk, please get yourself to a qualified IBCLC to be evaluated. You are almost definitely producing enough milk, but she can help you confirm or disavow your fears. She will also assist you with helping your baby latch and, if she's not ready to do that, she'll get you on a SNS. We had to do the SNS for several weeks, then my son was on a nipple shield for three months before he was finally ready to latch directly.
In the mean time, the ladies in breastfeeding can help. It's also not too late to apply for an adopt_a_mom mentor. Best wishes.
Supplemental nursing system. It uses a tube with one end attached to a bag or large syringe and the other end feeding into a nipple shield to help your baby learn to latch.
He was about 9 or 10 weeks old when he started to yank it off. I thought it was accidental, but then I randomly decided to take it off one day when he was about 12 weeks and see if he would latch. He did, with pretty much no issue at all. I kept using it at night for another week or week and a half and then he was off it permanently. The best you can do is not force the issue and just keep trying. I've been told there are a few moms who use the shield their entire nursing relationship, but the vast majority are able to wean from it. I hope that's the case for you. :)
In the mean time, the ladies in breastfeeding can help. It's also not too late to apply for an adopt_a_mom mentor. Best wishes.
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Thank you very much, we are supposed to go to a La Leche league meeting in a few weeks
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I hope you get some answers at the LLL meeting.
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