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She was feeling useless when she was pregnant, didn’t like her new limitations. Then the birth was pretty rough, episiotomy… if you don’t know, baby quite literally ripped her a new one. Feeling even more useless and ugly. To top it off, her milk isn’t coming on strong yet so we have to supplement with formula. Baby don’t get It, so she refuses to take the bottle from her. The wife knows she needs help, and that just makes it worse. What do?

She was feeling useless when she was pregnant, didn’t like her new limitations. Then the birth was pretty rough, episiotomy… if you don’t know, baby quite literally ripped her a new one. Feeling even more useless and ugly. To top it off, her milk isn’t coming on strong yet so we have to supplement with formula. Baby don’t get It, so she refuses to take the bottle from her. The wife knows she needs help, and that just makes it worse. What do?

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[–] • 3 pts

Call the hospital and ask for a referral to a lactation consultant. We consulted with one with each baby ... made so much difference.

[–] • 0 pt

zipmilk.org is what the lactician recommended. She didn’t personally know anyone in our area to recommend.

[–] • 0 pt

Hmm. Suggest you push a bit further. We got (1) a visit in the hospital for ~15 minutes, and (b) a 15 minute phone conversation. Made a huge difference giving my wife confidence that what she was doing was correct.

(Sadly, the mother community is weak in this area, where we live. Maybe you have a better mom network?)