How long did it take for your newborn to latch and breastfeed properly?

Question

Hi all, facing issues latching my 11 days old new born and I wonder when he'll be able to latch and breastfeed properly. It is really draining and I wonder if I should just switch to bottle feeding.

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I fought and fought and fought to get him to latch and it finally worked well at about a month.  Was totally worth the battle to me

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When they roomed my baby in my room, my mom and aunt suggested to make him latch to me (even though I’m not yet producing breastmilk) to initiate milk production and so that he’ll learn to. He sucked it well. We would make him latch every after he takes a bottle(formula). Within a week I was already breastfeeding.

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My son couldn’t latch on my boob after he was born due to him being so small and didn’t have strong muscle to suck. So, my lactation consultant suggested nipple shield which worked beautifully for the next three months. We no longer needed it once he was able to latch and suck the milk very well without any help at almost 4 months old.

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I’d probably be talking to a lactation consultant at this point. They can probably help a lot. My daughter started rooting around as soon as she was placed on my chest and she latched right away and ate for like an hour. And we’ve never had any issues and she’ll be a month old in a couple days. We did have one time where she was so tired that I needed help and the nurse like shoved my boob in her mouth and it worked lol.

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One one side straight away but about 3 or 4 weeks for the other.

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It can take a while. Have you seen a lactation consultant? We worked with one and it was very helpful

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My first took 3 weeks and meeting with my midwife every other day to be successful breastfeeding. 
This time he latched well first try

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My oldest: 3 weeks when he got his tongue tie fixed. 
My youngest: about 30minutes after he got his tongue tie fixed when he was 5hours old.

How long did it take for your newborn to latch and breastfeed properly?

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