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Recovering from surgery with a seven week old

aibarnesaibarnes member
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I had to have emergency surgery Thursday night to remove an IUD. I can't nurse using the cradle or reverse cradle hold due to my incisions and my daughter refuses to nurse using the football hold. It ends with her having a bottle of pumped breast milk after screaming and refusing to latch for five to ten minutes. Any suggestions for getting her to accept this position? She has hated it since the very begining, she likes a lot of contact when she nurses. I keep pumping and using bottles but I really miss the connection we have when we nurse since I can't pick her up, hold her or carry her currently.  My husband doesn't get why I want to keep trying because it always winds up with a bottle anyway.
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Re: Recovering from surgery with a seven week old

  • Diver10Diver10 member
    What about side lying in the bed? You don't have to support her and you can pull her close to you for contact and shed be up higher so hopefully away from your incisions
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  • Goldsgirl9Goldsgirl9 member
    when was your IUD put in and why did you have to have it removed? I'm scheduled to have one put in a couple weeks from now so I can curious. Keep trying different positions until you find one that works for both of you. What about a little from the bottle to start just to take the edge off then try different positions? I had to do this in the beginning because lo was ravenous and I wasnt producing enough. it helped calm him so we could establish a good position and latch.  
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  • LittleFish1LittleFish1 member
    Am assuming you are using football hold and putting a firm pillow next to your hip for LO to lay upon. Side laying can be nice but easy to over arch your back to give LO a better position so be careful with that. Allows for cuddling LO. I have started putting small, flat blanket on bed, LO ontop so it is easier to reposition her by shifting the blanket with her ontop if she falls asleep.

    Sounds like your LO is taking the bottle... if not though, there is finger feeding. Uses clean syringe of bm or f hooked up to tube you place on tip of your gloved finger, with only tip of finger going in mouth, tube towards roof of moth aimed towards gum on side of mouth. Your finger tip hest stroked by baby's tongue ...baby's suction pulls the stopper down in the syringe with a bit of help from the adult holding the syringe. It's a 2person job though. The nurses at hospital taught us this rather than bottle feeding after LO was born.
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  • aibarnesaibarnes member
    My IUD was put in when she was five and a half weeks old. I had it removed because it migrated from my uterus into my abdomen.  My doctor said that it was rare but that if it happens not to try that form of bc again.
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