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Hey CK - sorry bout ur "friend" - if it makes her uncomfortable she should have come to u instead of having a winge to others! I'm glad u had some real friends to stick up for u! And I agree u can barely see anything when feeding - I've seen people expose more breast at the beach! And yeh fine the nipple is out for a second but hey! - dont look!!
People who are 'bothered' by it are pretty immature in my opinion.
yea its none of their bussiness!! =P to your "friend" dont let her get you down. You are doing a great job, and if you are happy and your little one is happy and healthy because of your choice then she can shove it!!
so the MACH nurse came to see me yesterday, had some tips re: feeding, and her wind. she did say the fast flow and 'gulping' she does at the start can just push all the wind down and it gets stuck in pockets. she then said just slow down the flow at the start. I asked how and she said just squeeze. seems pretty hard, I mean I'm squirting across the room here and she said just slow it down. so in the .1 second how to guide I got...I just have to put pressure on my boobs and kind of block the flow? will the work...seems like it wouldnt really do anything and i get nervous by 'blocking the flow' in terms of blocked ducts etc...
I know it will get better, its only been a week and my boobs are just working them selves out, but yea...
you can lean back with bub on your chest- then you reduce effects of gravity.
yea that is the one thing i have been doing, also helps with the big boobs
Never heard of teh squeeze before :) You can call theABA too - 1800 686 268. it's just the sort of thing they can give you help and support with :)
CK - It's such a shame when people's own hangups mean they have issues with babies being fed. It isn't about boobs or how much is showing, it's about baby getting fed. That's it.
ok, i have been really lucky in terms of infections/mastitis etc. have only had a couple of blocked ducts early with dd that i was able to clear myself.
tonight i am feeding ds and have a really sharp pain within the breast and out the nipple (kinda follows the path of the milk glands you see in pics in breastfeeding brochures), what could it be?
Hmm I'm not sure Hotl. Is is really painful?
So it's 7:30am here and DD hasn't fed since 3:30am. Is that weird??? She has been as you know fussy on the breast for three, almost four weeks. I had pushed most of her day feeds to three hourly unless she was happy to pop on earlier as any earlier mostly resulted in high pitched screams and an inconsolable baby for 5-10 minutes after . If she is not screaming at the boob she is happily refusing it- looking around, poking at my face, chit chatting. This morning she is happy but not interested in food. She's not self weaning is she???
id say she's just maturing & can take more at a feed & maybe just being so interested ib what's going on that she's 'too busy'.
they change so often - next week she'll probably want to feed hourly!!
i'd just offer eveey so often but not push it too much.
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Ok so I put her on the playmat as she was happy then after a while she started calling out to me so I popped her back on but this time it was screams. Not flat out refusal- she will latch then pull off repeatedly and then gets so upset (in a matter of minutes) that she loses interest in the breast altogether. So I walked with her around the house holding her down my body with her mouth near my nipple then she eventually latched, drank but only for a minute or so and now she's asleep!
Trust your body and your baby, ladylove. She is far too young to be weaning. It sounds more like distraction to me. Try bfing in a quiet, darkened room. By this age she probably is more efficient too. Rather than look at how far between feeds, count how many she has in a day. My DD2 is not a breakfast time feeder. She has some early morning (I think, we cosleep then so I'm not conciously noticing since I'm busy sleeping), but then nothing before about 9am. She seems to prefer waking up and talking/playing to eating. But she gets hungry eventually. ;) Over 24 hrs she's still having 6-8 feeds, but some are very quick.
As long as output is still good, you can probably be reasonably confident she's getting enough.
Ladylove, give the ABA a call if you're concerned. 1800-686-268. They can talk you through all the normal variables and that will give you an idea of whether there's really anything wrong, or whether it's just a change in her behaviour as she's getting older.
How is your little one today Ladylove? The ABA number is 1800 686 2 686.
They've actually dropped the last 6 off as it didn't work with voip phones. either will work with a regular landline, though.
Oh thanks girls, I will give the ABA a call as she's still a bit hit and miss. Today she's been better. She fed 2:30 am - am almost full feed of both sides- then slept through to 7am then fed about 7:15am, then because I was going out to brunch I tried a daytime dream feed- picked her up from her nap then she had a small feed. This was around 10am. Then another feed 1 then 4:30 and I'll give her next feed after her 6pm bath and massage as she's happy playing now. So yeah today was a relief! hopefully it lasts. I did try a top up at 2:30 but she wouldn't have a bar of it. I am still asking my GP about it at her 4 month check up though.
Jennifer, Honor is very alert and active in the mornings so it could be a similar scenario to your little one.
how do you know when a breast is completely drained? is it just when its really soft?
Thanks MadB, i didn't know that and thought you had just made a typo (my bad).
Tei, the breast never completely drains cos it makes milk at the same time as the milk is coming out. if baby is still hungry, and the breast is really soft it is a good time to offer the other side. How is your little girl going?
In the early days with DS he'd pull off and turn away when it was done or he'd had enough. I'd then burp him and offer the other side, which he either would or wouldn't take depending on how hungry he was (he tended to only feed one side at a time). It also would be really soft and if I squeezed my milk looked more like cream, sort of thick and yellowy rather than thin/white.
These days it's usually when he pulls away and starts fooling around with it or biting. I'm less keen on the biting :lol: