Breast milk not as filling?

**emc2** · August 23rd, 2011, 12:51 PM

Child Health the other week they were crapping on we don't talk about foremilk etc anymore blah blah blah.

What BBB is saying is spot on.

**Jellybean29** · August 23rd, 2011, 12:56 PM

Child Health the other week they were crapping on we don't talk about foremilk etc anymore blah blah blah.

What BBB is saying is spot on.

lols thats as bad as the Child Health nurse who told me to take him off after 10min and swap sides

**BhoysGirl** · August 23rd, 2011, 07:13 PM

Rania, you're doing so well to hang in there - 3 1/2 weeks is still so little, and you'll definitely find that as he gets bigger it will all get much easier for him. At this stage, even a week makes a big difference in what they can do.

Just thought I'd add a bit about expressed milk - you can store EBM at room temp (less than 26C) for 6-8 hours, or in the fridge for 3-5 days, or in the freezer (thank you ABA info

). So if you do some expressing and end up with say 60ml in a go (or whatever), then you could split it into a couple of containers and use it for a couple of feeds instead of having to express each time before a feed, if that makes sense.

**Jellybean29** · August 23rd, 2011, 08:19 PM

BhoysGirl, good suggestion, but the other reason I suggested expressing before was so her bubs found it easier to latch on and so the milk was ready when he was super hungry and didn't want to wait/work for it

**Barb Glare** · August 23rd, 2011, 08:29 PM

Hi,

If it comes out of your boobs it's great for your baby - the concepts of 'foremilk" and "hindmilk" are a bit confusing - it isn't as though it stops being one thing and becomes another. If you are having trouble getting enough milk - you just want it all to go down the hatch, not waste anything on a
belief it is watery and not good enough. That's not how it works. I wonder, what have your little one's weightgains been like? is he back over his birthweight? How often does he poo in 24 hours.

**BhoysGirl** · August 24th, 2011, 08:35 AM

BBB - you obviously didn't hear the conversation in my head

. I thought your expressing suggestion was great, and it got me thinking that if she managed to express more she could divide it into smaller amounts that could be used to take of the frantic edge of hunger. But then of course, the other reason to express each time is to soften the nipple a bit if she's engorged, which would make latching easier.

**emc2** · August 24th, 2011, 08:51 AM

Also ignore advice from Child Health which is to express the same amount as you would feed in formula. Breastmilk is about quality not quantity.

**Jellybean29** · August 24th, 2011, 09:36 AM

BBB - you obviously didn't hear the conversation in my head

. I thought your expressing suggestion was great, and it got me thinking that if she managed to express more she could divide it into smaller amounts that could be used to take of the frantic edge of hunger. But then of course, the other reason to express each time is to soften the nipple a bit if she's engorged, which would make latching easier.

**rania** · August 25th, 2011, 04:45 PM

Lactation consultant came out today and wow what a big difference. Thanks so much for the advice to get onto them. Really super duper handy. They know so much, and sit with you and your baby and watch the interaction around feeding time and give advice based on what they see, not just what they have been told to regurgetate.
Since she left, we have had the most sucessful BF sessions yet. She did say it could just be a bit of a fluke that it went so well while she was here but he's just finished his second feed since then and it went very well both times.
She was definitely happy with the suggestion of expresing and giving him that just to take the edge off the hunger so he was not so impatient when I was trying to get him to latch. My technique was also alittle off apaprently. I was thinking he just needed nipple in his mouth, but apparently nipple + a good amount of breast is good

So happy