I feel like I’ve recieved conflicting advice and I’m feeling a bit upset and confused. I was told to wait a few weeks before pumping and just breastfeed. Then I was told it’s okay to pump now (my baby just turned one month old).
I attended a community event today and heard that basically at this stage I should just be breastfeeding. Pump after 6 weeks more or less.
Im sad to say that there are days baby doesn’t latch or a day like today where I was away the whole day I only pumped at 6AM and now at 2AM. The days baby latched its wonderful but it’s only like once or twice a day. I have to make more attempts.
I feel like I got off to a rocky start with breastfeeding (between the discomfort with incorrect latching, a little postpartum episode, and inconsistent support, etc) and not sure what I want to do now going forward. I don’t think it’s too late to turn the tide and steer this in a different direction.
Any advice???