A woman who has a failed
breastfeeding attempt due to bad information is either grieving to some degree or perhaps, miraculously and wonderfully, has managed to move on.
I would highly reccomend these to anyone that is pregnant again who has inverted nipples and didn't have the success they planned on with their
previous breastfeeding attempts.
If breastfeeding attempts are infrequent or weak, the possibilities include kangaroo care, maintaining nearness to the infant, hearing and responding emotionally to baby's cries, having the infant attempt to suck or at least nuzzle and regularly attempting to manually express or pump milk (which is beneficial even though only drops may come the first days).
When some kind
of breastfeeding attempt is made within the first six hours after birth, prolactin levels are much higher than when the first attempts are three days later.
The frustrating thing about lip - ties and tongue - ties is these conditions can go undiagnosed long enough to seriously
damage breastfeeding attempts.
A number of studies have found a correlation between epidural use and fewer breastfed babies though no correlation to
breastfeeding attempts.