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Expressing breast milk
I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I
gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? Thanks for your advice, Sandy |
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Sandy writes:
: I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I : gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first : couple of days. : I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding : baby with bottled breast milk? : Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? : Thanks for your advice, Sandy I dont know how many weeks along you are, but the first thing I wouuld recommend is to subscribe to misc.kids.breastfeeding, explain your problems over there, read the posts, and try again with better information, and better support this time. There are a few moms over there how have successfully pumped and fed EMB, but they are rare, and it is much more difficult in the long run than nursing if you can manage it. For full time pumping, the mimimum I would recommend is the Medela Pump-In-Style or the Ameda Purely Yours. If you want to spring for the bit bucks you could buy a Medela Lactina. Good luck, Larry |
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Sandy wrote:
I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. Get a lactation expert to sit with you, make sure you have some Lansinoh on hand and use is, and promise yourself to grit it out for the first couple of weeks. Even though it seems like it couldn't ever get better, it *will* and it won't be painful *at all* afterwards. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? If you're going to a lot of pumping, the hospital grade pumps will probably work the best for you. However, there are two huge downsides to exclusively pumping: 1) Even the best pumps aren't nearly as good as getting milk out as your baby. Because of that, your supply isn't likely to be as good as if you were nursing, particularly if you start pumping from the beginning and don't even have the advantage of the baby nursing to start up your initial supply. 2) Exclusive pumping is very time consuming, even with a pump that can do both sides at once. For every ounce your baby takes, you have to spend time pumping it and *then* time feeding it. Especially with a newborn, you could spend nearly every waking moment either pumping or feeding. Feeding EBM beats formula in terms of health benefits, but I think you'll find that if you line up really good support and get through the first couple weeks, nursing is just SOOOOOOOO much easier. Best wishes, Ericka |
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Take it from someone who had to pump for the first 3 weeks, it's much easier
to breastfeed! Once my DD did latch I had a hell of a time (sore bleeding nipples, mastitis) but it is all worth it in the end. It does get easier and even though it can be very difficult at first it's worth it in the end. Breastmilk is so much better for your baby and much easier than preparing formula. You have to be totally committed in order to succeed. Do go to mkb and ask questions there! -- Nadene "Sandy" wrote in message ... | I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I | gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first | couple of days. | | I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding | baby with bottled breast milk? | Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? | | Thanks for your advice, Sandy | | |
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"Richard" wrote in message ... Sandy wrote: : I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I : gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first : couple of days. : : I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding : baby with bottled breast milk? : Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? : : Thanks for your advice, Sandy Sandy, our DD was fed EBM for a year. In spite of the help of eight (!) lactation consultants (six of them IBCLC's), we could never get DD to latch correctly. Aye!!! Is she really 15 months now? |
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wrote in message ... On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:17:17 GMT, in misc.kids.pregnancy "Sandy" wrote: I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occasions I gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? Thanks for your advice, Sandy If you really are serious about it you'll want to get a Medella (sp?) Pump in style it does both breasts and once and if you get a cheap bra you can cut little holes over the nipples and slip the breast pump into the holes and pump hands free. I would pump literally for hours at a time while on the computer using that method... I also pumped while driving once or twice. I'll agree about the bra thing, though I learned to clamp the two breast horns across my chest with one harm, and type or hold a book one-handed. But, you'll be happier with a hospital-grade breast pump. I paid $30/month for the Medela Lactina I rented for 21 months, when I was pumping exclusively for one of my daughters, who was non-oral (she's still non-oral, but at the age of 4 she gets a different diet now). Also, the motor on a Pump In Style is not designed for exclusive use, day in and day out around the clock for months on end; the motor on a Lactina (or its equivalent, hospital-grade) is. Plus having used both, I found the Lactina to be far more comfortable for long-term use, and more adjustable. --angela |
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Sandy wrote in message ... I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? Thanks for your advice, Sandy Really, the first few days are the worst painfully. If you can go through that you should be okay. I'm not sure whether pumping would be less painful. I've only done a small amount later on, with a hand pump. Debbie |
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Sandy,
I empathize. I had the same pain issues with my first (plus inverted nipples), and the lactation consultant was the one who suggested pumping exclusively. It's difficult to discuss this with others, as we all have different tolerances for and experiences with pain. Fact is, my nipples are extraordinarily sensitive. I had a c-section and wasn't even bothering to take my meds, but the few times they got my son latched on, the pain was so horrific I involuntarily grabbed him and shoved him off the bed. The second time he nearly hit the floor before my husband caught him. I pumped with a Pump-in-Style for 5 weeks after that episode, and I think the grit-my-teeth-and-bear-it pain I felt from the pump, at the lowest setting, was comparable to what most people find with breastfeeding. I finally quit after I was getting more blood than milk...plus, it was as exhausting as everyone says it is. I'm going to give it another try this time out, too, and I feel a bit more confident (because the pain won't come as such a surprise). But if it doesn't work out, I will resort to a first month of pumping again and call it a day. Please consider what is best for your baby *and* for you. wizardcat "Welches" wrote in message ... Sandy wrote in message ... I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? Thanks for your advice, Sandy |
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You are all an incredible source of brilliant info and support.
Thanks heaps. "Sandy" wrote in message ... I failed dismally breast feeding my first two babies. On both occassions I gave it my best shot, but found it too painful to continue past the first couple of days. I'm wondering has anyone tried expressing their milk and completely feeding baby with bottled breast milk? Do electric breast pumps work successfully? Any brands you can recommend? Thanks for your advice, Sandy |
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