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Old May 29th 06, 01:01 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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Hello everyone. I am the mother of a 4.5 month old preemie. He has an
adjusted age of 2 months. I have been BF since he came home from the
NICU. I've posted here a few times but I had a few questions about my
milk supply. I was originally pumping about 9 times a day while he was
in the hospital. Under the advice of the LC at the NICU, I continued
pumping about 4 times a day when he came home until we hit his orginal
due date, then she said to just pump if DH was giving him a bottle or
if I felt full. When I went back to work, I began to pump twice a day
while a work. When I am at home we exclusively BF, and only give
bottles while I'm at work. We don't seem to have any bottle confusion
as he latches on great when I'm home. The problem I'm having is that he
is starting to sleep about 6 hours at night and my supply has really
dropped. I know that I could get up in the middle of the night and pump
but I have a fairly high pressure job and I really need to get the
sleep.
Anyway, I bought some fenugreek capsules but I don't know how much I'm
supposed to take. Also, I heard that mother's milk tea will help your
supply. Which is better and should I do both or will that have adverse
affects? Also, as a side note, I make sure to eat oatmeal every
morning and I drink at least 8 bottles of water a day.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience or issues with all of
these.
Thanks
Danielle

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Old May 29th 06, 01:14 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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"Dani" wrote in message
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Anyway, I bought some fenugreek capsules but I don't know how much I'm

supposed to take. Also, I heard that mother's milk tea will help your
supply. Which is better and should I do both or will that have adverse
affects? Also, as a side note, I make sure to eat oatmeal every
morning and I drink at least 8 bottles of water a day.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience or issues with all of
these.
Thanks
Danielle


When my daughter was eating more than I could pump (we now have solids to
fill the gap), I took 3 fenugreek capsules in the a.m. and 3 in the pm. I
tried to take a couple at lunch too, but rarely made it. I drink one or two
cups of mother's milk tea per day. I don't think fenugreek and fennel are
something you can really "overdose" on, in terms of them being dangerous.
However, too much can make you nauseous, or for that matter, engorged. My
baby also sleeps well at night, and when I was really hitting the fenugreek
and mother's milk tea, I woke up in serious pain a couple of mornings from
being engorged, so I reduced the dosage.
Pumping more often can really help too.

GL,
Amy


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Old May 29th 06, 02:30 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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When I went back to work, I began to pump twice a day
while a work. When I am at home we exclusively BF, and only give
bottles while I'm at work. We don't seem to have any bottle confusion
as he latches on great when I'm home. The problem I'm having is that he
is starting to sleep about 6 hours at night and my supply has really
dropped.


Amy has some great advice, and I'd just like to add that if you are
working full time i.e. 8 hr days, then you probably want to add another
pumping to your day. Ideally you (not you paticularly, I'm using it as
a general "you") want to pump every 3 hours, that would mean for
example, once at 9 a.m ( or pumping at home before work) then at 12
noon, and then at 3 p.m. then go home and nurse baby at 6 p.m. If you
pump at home instead of the 9 a.m. pumping at work, you may have to
adjust the rest of the pumping schedule - but my experience is that
pumping 3 times in 8 hours is usually required if one wants to keep up
one's supply.

I did not have to worry about the night pumping though, my daughter
still doesn't sleep (at 6 months) for more than 2 hours at a time. !!

PK

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Old May 30th 06, 02:58 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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You could fit in some additional pumping. After
sleeping for 6 hours, for example, you could pump
one breast while nursing on the other breast.
(Perhaps ending by nursing on the breast you pumped.)
Or, choose a convenient time of day and pump a small
amount before nursing (or after nursing perhaps);
maybe do this a couple of times a day in addition
to the pumping at work, to add up to the equivalent
of pumping one feeding.

These are just suggestions. I konw your schedule is
very busy already and I'm not implying you should
do any of these things, just offering ideas.
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Old May 31st 06, 02:28 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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Thank you so much for all the advice. I'm going to try to add the
mothers milk tea and do the fenugreek dose Amy mentioned. I think I'll
also try to pump after some feedings. I can't really add another one
at work. It just takes too much time already. I really want to
continue breastfeeding. I'll see what works and hopefully some
combination will help things pick up. Thanks for the help!
Dani

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Old June 1st 06, 01:20 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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"Dani" wrote in message
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Thank you so much for all the advice. I'm going to try to add the
mothers milk tea and do the fenugreek dose Amy mentioned. I think I'll
also try to pump after some feedings. I can't really add another one
at work. It just takes too much time already. I really want to
continue breastfeeding. I'll see what works and hopefully some
combination will help things pick up. Thanks for the help!
Dani


When you say it takes too much time, how long are you pumping? I've found
that after about 8 min I get so little yield it's almost not worth it (my
baby typically nurses for 7 min per session, so that's what my body is used
to). I find I get more yield if I pump 3-4 times per day for 8-10 min each
than if I do fewer but longer pumps. Now, I have a pretty immediate let
down, so I'm not waiting around for milk to start flowing.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention that it might work best to keep your
pumping as similar to direct bf'ing as possible. On wknds my 6mo nurses
every couple of hours for 7-10 min on one side. Since I double pump, that
means I can do both sides at once every 4 hours and still have the same
frequency. Since pumping isn't as effective as nursing, I pump a bit more
often than that, but keep the length similar to typical nursing sessions.

Amy


 




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