I know it’s early but I am feeling so stressed...I gave birth on Sunday.I had gd so my baby had low sugar and they had to give him formula.I don’t have anything against formula,I just don’t want my baby having it.(please don’t say fed is best cause although fed is the untimate purpose of course,for me it is definitely not the best).

The problem is it’s day 4 now and my milk hasn’t come in.I hand express around 12ml of colostrum in total during the day after every breastfeed I do so I breastfeed the baby (I have no idea how much) then top up with 2ml per feeding expressed colostrum,then top up with formula.

They say tomorrow they will try without the formula so they see how much the blood sugar will drop...

My concern though is that my milk hasn’t come in yet...I read that it should be here by now...my breasts are hard rock from engorgment so shouldn’t there be here already? I pump once a day for stimulation,breastfeed 6-7 times a day for 40 minutes and hand extract 6 times a day...but still they are rock solid..

I have been crying all these days cause I really feel I am failing and i am at the hospital room all alone with the baby all day and here we have to stay in the hospital for 5 days and all the midwifes have a different opinion and say it’s baby blues and stuff,but the thing is I don’t have depression or baby blues...If my milk came I wouldn’t be miserable...

Anyway thank you to the ladies who will go to trouble to read all of my concerns...