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UPDATE to: are there ways to speed up milk coming in?/NEW QUESTION

kalmte214kalmte214 member
edited April 2014 in Breastfeeding
Thanks for your answers!  It seems my milk is beginning to come in!  I was very happy, but since I noticed it changing, DS is refusing the left breast and only eating sparingly from the right breast.  I'm concerned this will affect his weight and my supply.  I googled and found many reasons he may prefer one breast to the other and have tried several different nursing positions to get him to feed from the other breast, but it hasn't worked. 

Is pumping the only way to ensure supply won't drop, or am I over reacting, since it's been less than 24 hours?


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DS was born 2 days ago.  One of the nurses at the hospital made me feel pretty terrible about not wanting to supplement because DS was very fussy last night (she insisted it was because my milk hadn't come in yet, not due to gas, etc.).  DS lost 6% of his body weight at the time of discharge (which I know is fine at this point).

Anyway, is there anything I can do to speed up milk coming in?  DS nurses about 20-30 minutes every 1-3 hours.
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Re: UPDATE to: are there ways to speed up milk coming in?/NEW QUESTION

  • linzeek44linzeek44 member
    Keep nursing. It will come. :)

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  • linzeek44linzeek44 member
    And congrats on your new baby! 

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  • ChichigoChichigo member
    Colostrum is all a newborn needs during the first few days. Their stomachs are the size of a marble.

    It's normal for a breastfed baby to take up to two weeks to return to birth weight
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  • Tmgs2013Tmgs2013 member
    I seriously hate when nurses say crap like that! Just keep nursing as much as baby wants and count wet/dirty diapers. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the rule is one diaper for every day old (one diaper for day one, two diapers for day two, etc) until day 5 then it should be 8-10 diapers per day.
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