I am wondering if this baby got deep suctioning at birth?  I don't have a
solution to offer, because obviously the baby had to eat.  Just want to
observe that I had heard anecdotally about deep suctioning interfering with a
good start then got to see it with my own eyes:  when my sister gave birth
2-1/2 years ago our mom videotaped everything to do with the baby (NOT the
manual placental extraction!!!) and I was just horrified to watch what was
done to this *beautiful healthy PINK* baby as the nurse and doctor took turns
DEEP and I mean DEEP suctioning him.  I should say he was pink until they
started that crap, then he was blue - what a surprise.  This baby went on to
have a very hard start at breastfeeding, and no one understood why until my
sister got up her nerve to look at the videotape and saw all the horrible
things done to this poor sweet baby's mouth.  I am still shaken-angry-upset
about it!  (Can you tell?!)

Such a baby is going to need very gentle patient and creative handling, as
the baby has to eat but also has to relearn trust in the people caring for
him/her.  Sad, isn't it?

Mary Renard, Vienna, VA, USA,
whose uncle wrote the commercial for margarine that was popular in the USA
back in the late 60s - early 70s:  "It's not NICE to fool Mother Nature!" and
who managed to find lessons about breastfeeding while watching "Jurassic
Park."