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see her message: can you give us advice? I will post it back to her.
"I visited the breastfeeding and lactation board here at ivillage because I am having supply problems for what I thought was due to Brayden's ever changing feeding schedule. But they are telling me that I am overfeeding him. Well, me or the sitter. I feel terrible and more confused now. I wanted to know how to increase my supply and what to do about him eating in the evenings sometimes and sometimes not at all. I told them he eats 6 oz at 12 and at 3pm while I am at work but that I am only able to pump 8oz at work-which isn't enough. I thought I would get some sympathy and suggestions like I do from you ladies but instead they are talking about average feedings and a baby should only consume 25oz a day and 6oz is way too much and he doesn't need solids yet he just wants to bond not eat. What? I thought they were supposed to help. How much does your babies eat? How often? If my son is big doesn't he need a little more than the average--these charts say that children don't need to increase intake with age or weight." |
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Child wrote: see her message: can you give us advice? I will post it back to her. "I visited the breastfeeding and lactation board here at ivillage because I am having supply problems for what I thought was due to Brayden's ever changing feeding schedule. But they are telling me that I am overfeeding him. Well, me or the sitter. I feel terrible and more confused now. I wanted to know how to increase my supply and what to do about him eating in the evenings sometimes and sometimes not at all. I told them he eats 6 oz at 12 and at 3pm while I am at work but that I am only able to pump 8oz at work-which isn't enough. I thought I would get some sympathy and suggestions like I do from you ladies but instead they are talking about average feedings and a baby should only consume 25oz a day and 6oz is way too much and he doesn't need solids yet he just wants to bond not eat. What? I thought they were supposed to help. How much does your babies eat? How often? If my son is big doesn't he need a little more than the average--these charts say that children don't need to increase intake with age or weight." Sometimes (often?) a caregiver will use the bottle as a first attempt at comfort for a baby, when in fact, a baby may not be hungry and may be tired, bored, whatever. So she may want to suggest that the caregiver give only 4 ounces and try other comfort measures, but if baby is still hungry, go ahead and give a couple more ounces. That's one option. The other option is to try to increase her pump output. The ways to do that are herbal supplements (which I think you've used, Beth), and to pump more. A good extra pump to add in is in the morning before baby wakes up (if you can stand to do it). Also pumping on weekends. Lastly, in the situation where mom is working and pumping and just not meeting the baby needs, well, I would give myself permission to supplement with formula. Its just not worth the stress. That said, she needs to keep pumping to keep her supply up for when she is with the baby. And she needs to nurse him only, when she is with him. Cosleeping would be fabulous so he could nurse during the night, but some women don't want to open that can of worms. Oh, and one more thing - my girls were always off the chart when they were exclusively breastfed but never took more than 4 ounces from the bottle and never more than 12-14 ounces max, when I was away from them (usually more like 6 ounces). Really size doesn't have much to do with it. Some babies like bottles and take alot. Some don't. Oh, and one more thing again! She may find his bottle intake decreases when she does start solids. DD2 was completely off the bottle at 10 months- she just lost interest in it, prefering solids at daycare and nursing at home. Good luck to your friend. And good for her for pumping! Mary W. |
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Sometimes (often?) a caregiver will use the bottle as a first attempt at comfort for a baby, when in fact, a baby may not be hungry and may be tired, bored, whatever. So she may want to suggest that the caregiver give only 4 ounces and try other comfort measures, but if baby is still hungry, go ahead and give a couple more ounces. this is true, but not necessarily intentional on the part of the caregiver, they just don't know your baby, a brief conversation letting them know that they aren't usually consuming that much when they are with you at the same time of day and that perhaps they have other needs can easily resolve this. It certainly worked for us, though I always provided a 2nd bottle just in case he really did need it. That's one option. The other option is to try to increase her pump output. The ways to do that are herbal supplements (which I think you've used, Beth), and to pump more. A good extra pump to add in is in the morning before baby wakes up (if you can stand to do it). Also pumping on weekends. Absolutely, I'd be taking both lines of attack, for me pumping straight after the morning feed was a very effective way of getting more milk out. Also, twiddling my nipples every time I went to the loo seemed to help (I know this sounds bizarre, but it's easy to fit in and I'd more often than not stimulate a let down). How old is the baby? I know in the month before DS started solids was when we had similar problems, often taking 2 6oz bottles in 4hrs, within a month he was down to 1 4oz bottle. Anne |
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