Fortifying breast milk for preemie

hooverj3

My baby is now a little over 3weeks old (born at 34w3d). Per pedi orders we have been fortifying our LO's breastmilk with neosure to help her gain weight. She was 4 pounds at birth.  We have been taking the neosure powder and mixing it with water like the directions on the container call for and then we mix it with the breastmilk. Is that the right way of fortifying or are you suppose to just mix the neosure powder with the breastmilk? Hope we have been doing it right!!!   TIA!

hooverj3

The pedi was unclear and I should have clarified. We may have been doing it wrong for awhile now....ugh. My husband swore this is how they said to do it but I wasn't sure. Thanks though. I am going to call tomorrow. Thanks!

katie4253

This will help!  https://www.childrensmn.org/manuals/pfs/nutr/018727.pdf

3litttlebirds

We were told to put formula directly into BM. And we were given an exact recipe...1/2 tsp per 90cc BM.

DrRx

hooverj3:

The pedi was unclear and I should have clarified. We may have been doing it wrong for awhile now....ugh. My husband swore this is how they said to do it but I wasn't sure. Thanks though. I am going to call tomorrow. Thanks!

I would definitely ask your pedi.  We were told to just alternate her feeds--one with neosure, one with bm (sometimes it was 2 bm and 1 neosure) and to mix the bottle per the instructions on the box (1 scoop in 2 ounces of water).  

Don't be too hard on yourself! As PP said, it's not like you mixed it with Mtn Dew!