Babies Born August 2007

[Kirst11]

I'm the opposite with regards to milk! I have an excess!

Both my girls have pretty fierce sucks, and both destroyed my nipples. Ardyn was bottle-fed breast milk for 3 months, and Bailey is currently doing the same. But I don't know how long it will last, as it's a lot harder to express all the time when you have a 2 year old to contend with as well. Her attachment is good, she just sucks really hard. I gave her a go on the boob today, and she seems to be sucking a bit nicer. I think it's becasue I have a good flow of milk now.

So I express probably 5 times a day for 10 minutes a time, and get about 250ml a time. So over a litre a day. She is only drinking 100-110mL a feed at the moment, so the excess is being frozen. We thought that as long as I am producing it, we'll keep it, becasue if I have to shut up shop early becasue of time constraints (or anything else), at least we will still have a supply.

My DH calls our freezer "Gattaca" - haha!!! If you've seen the movie, you'll understand. There is already about 4 days worth in there, and she's only 10 days old. At this rate, I could shut up shop after 2 months, and she'd still get as much as Ardyn did.

I'm going to leave my post there, otherwise it will be really long and full of drivel.
Much love and hugs to you all!!!

[kungfubecca]

hi all,

Fiona, sounds like you have a sensitive princess there. Not like my ruff and tumble little man, he loves his pram, the more bumps the better, although he doesn't like his cot matress to lie flat, we had to shove a blanket under one end to raise it on a slight angle.

Sehra, I am still learning all this stuff, but you demand fed ela for a few days would your supply increase because she was demanding more??

Krist, I have founds that Xavier sucks harder when I have too much milk, you seem to have quite a supply on your hands, would bailey do better after you expressed a little say 50ml? I also found lieing down and letting him feed he put less pressure on me, and what would normally hurt didn't anymore.
Can i ask how you go if your expressing 250ml each time but bubs doesn't drink that much, do you get an engorged feeling?? I've expressed once or twice and Xavier doesn't seem to be able to drink more than about the 100-110ml so my body is starting to regulate my supply now.

Well for us we have an MCHN appt tomorrow, it should be good. Hopefully they will finally tell we what the go is with the mums group and when it might start. 4 weeks old tomorrow so it will be interesting to see how big he is getting. Not sure if he's grown a huge amount this week though. Fingers crossed he's a good boy for me, he peed on me twice today

wishing all good sleep.

[Kirst11]

Can i ask how you go if your expressing 250ml each time but bubs doesn't drink that much, do you get an engorged feeling?? I've expressed once or twice and Xavier doesn't seem to be able to drink more than about the 100-110ml so my body is starting to regulate my supply now.

I don't know to be honest. I have pretty big boobs anyway, maybe that's got something to do with it? My mum said that she was the same. She's sure that when she was in hospital with us that what she expressed was being used to feed the whone nursery. Maybe my body has regllated to the 250ml? As long as I don't express more, it should stay at that.

I don't mind expressing that much. At least I know that I have enough. I just freeze the excess.

I put her on tonight just to soothe her before her bath, as she was a bit hungry and I didn't want to give her a full feed. She seemed a lot better. She got enough out to calm her down until her 'night night' feed at bedtime.

We'll get there. I refuse to put pressure on myself, I did with D1, and it didn't do any of us (DH included) any good. And she's FINE. There are advantages to the bottle as well as disadvantages. Too many people focus on the latter. Whatever I have to do to get the BM into her, I don't care.

[kungfubecca]

HI,

Thanks for answering Krist. I agree too many people put an emphasis on the how you feed and not the well being of everyone involved. My DH's cousins were amazed at how I could BF Xavier, and in public too, and asked how I could do it, as they didn't think they could. I just told them that when it all comes down to it, if your not comfortable your not going to have a positive experience and the most important part is making sure bub is fed, in the long run.

While I am pro feeding etc, I don't believe in pushing people into anything, I've heard too many stories about under nourished bubs.