Bottle feeding (kinda long question)
I know breast is best and all the antibodies a babie can get from breast milk, but my son nursed for all of a month and we even had a consultant come over to our house after the hospital and help and she's the one who said he can't do breast and so we went to my dr and she tried to help and she said no he can't do it, he was born about 3 weeks early and they think that was the problem, there was nothing physically wrong with his mouth he just couldn't do it with all the help we got. And I had also developed a staph infection from trying and had a lump that needed to be biopsyed (so gross!) and it hurt to wear a bra to shower to sleep, it would hurt and make me cry whenever he cried wanting to be fed. He was also using me as a soother. So we went to formula and a soother and we finally bonded. Now I still know breast is best but I do not want to do that again with this one. I'm so afraid of the nursing part that labor is going to be easy lol!
My question is if I do bottle feeding in the hospital how does it work? Do I make up a bunch before the baby's born and bring it in a small cooler cuz they want you to feed as soon as they're born right, or do they help you mix some afterwards and then you make enough for a couple hours and store them in the fridge in the hospital and do you label them with masking tape and your name? How does it work? I really don't remember much of my hospital visit except with the blood tests I needed and the iron pills I was taking and them telling me my iron is so low if it doesn't go up in 2 days they may need to give me a transfusion or something cuz I had lost a lot of blood and I have anemia so I slept a lot during those 3 days and don't remember a lot of it.
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