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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azure" data-source="post: 1534072" data-attributes="member: 39639">[USER=429132]@Rubyroo44[/USER] First of all, don't blame yourself for anything. You did nothing wrong and it's not your fault in any way. Your post brims over with love for your son. You're clearly a fantastic mum. XAs regards SCBU and separation, I couldn't comment on your circumstances, but usually mums are allowed to spend a lot of time with their babies and breastfeeding is positively encouraged. Even if a baby is being fed by a nasal tube, they can be given expressed milk/colostrum.One of my children had to have extra monitoring in SC and they were in a separate room from me, but I spent most of my day there and if they cried at night, someone would come and wake me so I could go to them.If I was you and if you feel up to it, I'd ask for an explanation of what happened and why. Sometimes just hearing that can help enormously, as can talking it over.If, after that, you still feel that things could have been handled better, then I'd put your complaints/comments in writing - both about the - to you - excessive separation, and about the lack of support for breastfeeding. That latter thing is very poor nowadays. For my last birth, I had a breastfeeding guru help me within hours of the birth and the whole ward was extremely supportive of breastfeeding, with lots of pumps and lots of people to help and demonstrate hand-expressing. There was also storage in the SC unit for expressed colostrum and milk.But again, please don't torture yourself over it. You've clearly made up for that early separation now, and your son will know how much you love him. XXP.S - would you like me to move this to the Pregnancy section for you as that section is also for new mums?</blockquote>

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