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Breastfeeding Questions
If you pumped and bottle fed breastmilk, do you remember how much your child was eating per feeding at different ages? Right now Carina has only had a bottle a few times but she tends to take 4-5 oz per feeding. I'm wondering how quickly that will increase.
Right now she is eating every 3 hours during the day and I'll wake her to feed her if she's asleep. How often was your child breastfeeding at 2 months of age? When did that change?
One more - I'm going back to work the end of this month. Did you have any trouble pumping at work? Did your supply suffer? Any tips for making breastfeeding work for a working mom?
Thanks ladies!
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Re: Breastfeeding Questions
The most Adam ever took from a bottle, BM or formula, during the day was 6 oz. every 3 hours. Eventually he could do 8 right before bed and 7-8 when he got up, but even at a year old, 6 oz. mid-day was the max. I went back and forth with breastfeeding, pumped milk and formula for the first four months, and he was going every 3 hours basically until we started solids.
I didn't really try hard to pump at work. I work 3 days a week, so I'd pump when I went home for lunch, but didn't even attempt to pump at work. My supply was starting to go down during this time, but at 4 months I got very sick with a very high fever for a week. I had no supply after that.
DS only took 4oz for a long time. I think he increased to 6oz around 6 months or so, but never really got above that. Once DS was sleeping through the night (around 3.5 to 4 months) he ate 6x a day. Around 6 months we bumped that down to 5x a day and around 8 months he dropped to 4x a day. That's where we are now.
I only worked part time from 6 weeks on, but I ended up getting my first period when he was 12 weeks old. My supply would totally tank right before AF, and increased immediate after. At 6 months the increase after AF never happened and I started using Fenugreek. I don't know that I really noticed a huge increase, but I do think it helped a little. At 10 months I had to start supplementing with formula 2 of the 4 daily feedings, but nursed the AM and PM feeding. Just last night at 10.5 months, he completely rejected the night feeding, so we're on all formula now. I really think that it was working and pumping that caused my supply issues. I don't know what you can do to prevent it other than pumping a lot!
I hope things work better for you. Good luck!
Up until he started refusing bottles about a month or so ago Ethan was taking 4oz. I think if he were still taking them now he'd be up to 6oz b/c that is what I've been pumping.
At two months Ethan was eating every 2-3 hours but I wasn't waking him to eat. That hasn't changed much. He still nurses every 2-3 hours. Sometimes he'll go 4 or more though.
I haven't had trouble pumping (knock on wood) but I started pumping once a day when E was only a few weeks old to build my (sadly lost) freezer stash. I think it helped me that my body was used to responding to the pump daily. My LC suggested that I pump every 3 hours so I did that when I first started back to work. After a few weeks, if I had to, then I would go 4-5 hours between pumping sessions.
Good luck!!!
TTC since Jan 07. Dx with PCOS Jan 08