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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rubyroo44" data-source="post: 1533916" data-attributes="member: 429132">Hello,I had a planned/semi emergency c section over a year ago. When they tested my sons blood,an hour after delivery, it was 1. He was taken to SCBU where he ended up having many different glucose drips including one into his stomach. I didn't really have any support with breastfeeding and so baby was given formula and was also tube fed. It took five days for milk to come in due to c section and stress. I wasn't really allowed to hold him much. He was left to cry on the ward, which hurts me the most. His heart rate was so fast on two occasions he needed further investigation but I feel this was because he was on his own. It might not be but I will never know. I read articles by breastfeeding expert Dr Jack Newman that state babies shouldn't be separated based on low blood sugar alone. How much does this apply to a type one mum? Has anyone ever been in this situation?I totally realise that if baby needed intervention then he needed it and I hope I do not sound glib. The health of my son is more important that anything. However, I can't help but think if I had been told about expressing colostrum I could have prevented our separation. I worry about the long term impact of him being on his own for a week. I generally feel terrible about everything to do with his birth, fourteen months later. Nobody has any answers but I want to be prepared for our next child and it took nearly two years of planning to get perfect HBa1c.</blockquote>

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