How many times within the first day or two did your baby take to your breast? Did you supplement with any formula? Our little girl is 24 hrs old and she has been breastfeed 4 times about 15 mins a time and has not had formula supplemented yet. The nurses said the first 24 hrs is a sleeping period and they baby might not be to hungry. Just wanted to check with the other mothers out there. Thanks!!
Re: Breastfeeding Question??
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My baby had a hard time getting started on breastfeeding but I didn't supplement with anything and made sure the nurses knew that and we just kept trying. He finally got the hang of things. He didnt feed for the first time until 5 hours after he was born, then he wouldnt regularly eat. After the first day he cluster fed the second day every 1 hour he was hungry only for about 10 minutes. I just let him feed whenever he wanted. Right now he is 6 days old and getting on a more regular schedule of every 2-3 hours.
Same here for my daughter. I'm still nursing every 3 hours at least and she is 5 days old. I make sure to unswaddle her and change her diaper before feeding so that she will be awake.
Yep, I woke Amelie up every two hours during the day and let her go up to four at night (which only happened once..). It's hard to keep them awake, but it was worth it.
contractions. And DH had slept even less, so we were exhausted. We did supplement with finger feeding probably 4 times over tbe 4 day hospital stay because i was so exhausted.
Also, the lactation specialist pointed out that it is a hormone that is released during BF, esp eatly on that stimulates the milk production, but also causes the sleepyness ... oxysomething. I always mix the name of thehormone with the name of the drug.
This. It is true that the first 24 hours they sleep ALOT. They just through a pretty big deal As you go into day 2 keep offering every 2 hours and don't get frustrated if they aren't eating a lot each time
I agree kellymom is an awesome resource and use the LC while you're there too.