Wondering about breast feeding round two.

Re: Wondering about breast feeding round two.

• momofmanyinthemitten member

  February 2013

  I was a hard-core EBFer with DD, but DS was a huge baby and wasn't getting enough milk from me and had lost 10% of his birth weight by the time we left the hospital. We supplemented with one bottle in the evening. Last night was the first night he didn't need the formula and I finally feel like my milk has caught up with him. Get the formula just in case. You'll know if you need to use it and don't hesitate to do so. You don't want an unhappy newborn on your hands.
  

  
  

   
  
  

  

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• cowgirltu member

  February 2013

  My ob's office gave me a can. They promote breastfeeding but give everyone a can just in case of situations like yours. Also, I would visit manufacturers websites and see if you can get other free samples. That way your not out any money if you end up not needing it. Gl!

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• T&T=C

  February 2013

  Thank you so much for your reply,

  I had to reply to you because of the picture of your little girl! Who is super adorable by the way. I see her name at the bottom and you wont believe this but my daughter and yours have something in common. My girls name is Clara Elise

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• lbatchler member

  February 2013

  Definitely get a few cans to be on the safe side. Because I was induced a week early, my milk was delayed. My hospital was pro-breast feeding and they kept insisting he was getting what he needed...although I knew better. He ended up with jaundice and had to be hospitalized at 5 days old to receive fluids. I felt terrible! Ip my gut told me to give him formula but I listened to my doctor. I'd have some on hand to avoid a situation like mine. As a first time mommy, I didn't know any better!

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• pb&fluff member

  February 2013

  We had a can just in case.  Turns out we needed to supplement anyway because his blood sugars were low in the hospital.  I pump, but I just don't make enough.  DS is 3 weeks old, and pretty much since we brought him home, he's been eating 3oz, which is a lot for a baby that young.  But since I'm only making about 3oz a day, we never would have made it. So he eats mostly formula and 1-2 bottles a day of BM, depending on how much I can pump.
  

  Feed your baby.  It doesn't matter if it's FF or BF.  Have the cans just in case, because it sounds like it's a possibility that it may not be successful again.  Try your best, an if it doesn't work out, then you've got back up.  The nurses and lactation consultants will try to get you to EBF, but do what's best for your LO and if you have to do formula, it's not giving up.  I don't believe in nipple confusion, personally.  We've been doing a bottle since day 1 and on a whim today I tried to BF (he's 3 weeks) and he was able to latch and get something (not a lot, but it was something).  GL!
  

  
  
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• momofmanyinthemitten member

  February 2013

  T&T=C:

  Thank you so much for your reply,

  I had to reply to you because of the picture of your little girl! Who is super adorable by the way. I see her name at the bottom and you wont believe this but my daughter and yours have something in common. My girls name is Clara Elise

  Small world.

   

  We love the old names. DS is Henry Levi.
  

  
  

   
  
  

  

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• T&T=C

  February 2013

  That is a great name! Our Son who we are excited to meet very soon Will be Silas Cole. Yes the old names are great and they will never find their names on generic things like pencils or stickers lol.

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