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Breastfeeding Support and Information
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Support and encouragement for our O'14 breastfeeding mamas and babes!
Post your breastfeeding-related questions in this thread, and moms can respond with resources they found helpful or their own personal experiences.
----- Here are some helpful links for breastfeeding mothers -----
https://newborns.stanford.edu/Breastfeeding/MaxProduction.html
Laid back breast feeding: https://www.llli.org/docs/0000000000000001WAB/WAB_Tear_sheet_Toolkit/01_laid_back_breastfeeding.pdf
Mastitis symptoms and helpful treatments to stop it worsening: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Mastitis/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Increasing milk supply thread from our own TheresaT858 https://www.thebump.com/interstitial_ad.html?originalUrl=https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12448116/how-to-increase-milk-supply-long
https://www.breastfeedinginc.ca
https://www.kellymom.com/
https://www.llli.org/toolkit
Post your breastfeeding-related questions in this thread, and moms can respond with resources they found helpful or their own personal experiences.
----- Here are some helpful links for breastfeeding mothers -----
https://newborns.stanford.edu/Breastfeeding/MaxProduction.html
Laid back breast feeding: https://www.llli.org/docs/0000000000000001WAB/WAB_Tear_sheet_Toolkit/01_laid_back_breastfeeding.pdf
Mastitis symptoms and helpful treatments to stop it worsening: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Mastitis/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Increasing milk supply thread from our own TheresaT858 https://www.thebump.com/interstitial_ad.html?originalUrl=https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12448116/how-to-increase-milk-supply-long
https://www.breastfeedinginc.ca
https://www.kellymom.com/
https://www.llli.org/toolkit
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Re: Breastfeeding Support and Information
DS will be at daycare about 12 hours every day. I planned on taking five 3 ounces bottles. The problem I'm running into is that they feed one bottle per feeding. I told them when he roughly eats, but it's been on demand. So if he sleeps and doesn't eat for 4 hours, he will only get a 3 ounce bottle. If I fill them to 4 ounces each and he eats after two hours, they will only use that bottle once and the leftover will be given to me at the end of the day. This essentially wastes at least an ounce or two of my hard earned milk.
Any advice? I thought I could send some 3 ounce and some 4 ounce, but these ladies are extremely literal. I don't think that they would pick and choose the bottle based on his last feeding.
Example: I sent two thawed bottles and marked them "use first." She asked which one to use first because they both said first, and not first and then second. I also sent extra clothes with both a short sleeved and long sleeved onesie because I didn't know the temp of the room. When I picked him up he was wearing all of the clothes and getting warm.
Sorry so long. Here's a pizza cookie.
I shared this in the other thread, but it has some more helpful tips:
https://sdbfc.com/blog/2013/10/9/top-10-ways-to-stop-caregivers-from-overfeeding-your-breastf.html#.VKv9EEY8Lv4
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
I feed on demand but dd is a comfort sucker and she wont tollerate any pacifier for very long so I think she's eating even when she's not hungry. She gags and coughs and spits up a lot more frequently lately and I'm pretty sure it's because her little tummy is too full. Sometimes she seems like shes gasping for air but then she'll just latch back on like its nothing and will literally suck away for another hour. She does this especially when she's tired as she prefers to be nursed to sleep.
Should I let her eat/suck as long as she wants or should I pull her off when she seems full? Maybe I'm over thinking this but I think she would nurse all day if I let her. I'm not worried about overfeeding her in terms of weight gain just in terms of her overfilling her tummy and making herself sick.
How long is she nursing? Like an hour per session?
I hesitate to withhold from a baby who is actively nursing, even if she's nursing for a long time or frequently and spitting up (which often peaks around 4mo), which also occurs more often when mom has a forceful letdown. Side-lying nursing may help. Lay a towel or cloth diaper under you and baby so that the excess milk can flow out the corner of LO's mouth.
You might also consider adding a couple weekend pumping sessions or a morning session before you leave for work.
ETA: with such a short commute i'd skip the one on the way home.
Evening is when your supply is naturally lowest, and with all that nursing it's no wonder you weren't able to pump easily. That doesn't mean you have any supply issue. Keep in mind too that pump yield is not a good way to tell whether you have an adequate supply; too many factors involved.
I would plan to pump in the car on your way to work. Even if you just nursed and get only an ounce, that's one ounce for one of those times when LO needs an extra.
And if you can spare 5 mins between your every 4hr pumping sessions at work to pump with the manual pump, that will protect your supply and add to those ounces.
Best of luck, and try not to worry!
She is still wetting diapers and growing. Am I worrying about nothing? I just feel like 5 minutes isn't enough!
Does she nurse pretty frequently? It could be a mixture of super efficiency and storage capacity (not to be confused with production capacity):
Extra oz are always helpful, so I don't usually recommend stopping just because you have the milk you need. If you get to 3 and milk is still flowing, keep pumping until you've emptied your breasts. If you pump frequently enough, it's unlikely that you would need more than about 15 minutes to empty your breasts.
ETA: @theresat858 might have some more recs since she is our expert pumper.
Honesty I sometimes feel like I'm being lazy just letting her nurse so long rather than playing with her or interacting with her in some other way.
It's really nothing to worry about. Just enjoy nursing your baby and reuniting after the separation.
I've had to pump 5 x's a day (24hr period) to keep up! At that rate I feel like I'll never be able to keep up! Monday I was able to pump what he ate but since then output has dwindled. I have a good size stash, but don't want to use it all up in the first month back! HELP!
I will try changing out the membranes. I called the LC, maybe she can check the pressure and flanges for me.
I am using compression/massage and pictures of baby. My pump doesn't have a let down button, but I have tried changing the speed periodically which doesn't seem to make a difference for me.
I'll PM you some resources for your mom. It is so hard not to have positive encouragement from your family. ((Hugs))
Kellymom.com
Later in the day, I used the hands free bra successfully. The last pump of the day, I actually started to let down right after I put the flanges on but before I turned the pump on. I was wearing the bra again, so my earlier theory of the bra being too tight seems to be inconsistent with the rest of the day.
What the hell? Any advice how to prevent this from happening again? I'm wondering if it was the 0 degree weather? I pumped 3 other times in the car before and it was cold, but not that cold. I just need to figure this out because I need to have that 4-5 oz in the am in order to keep up with DD while I'm away. I would hate to pump before I leave for work because pumping while I am on my way allows me to push my first break back about an hour, which is really helpful. It's hard to fit 3 pumps into my really busy 10.5 hour workday as it is. I'm sorry for rambling, I think you can sense my stress. One of my biggest fears is being unable to continue to breastfeed DD because of work.