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On the right track?
DD2 is 3 days old...
So far, I think we've been doing good with everything. She's a 100% bf baby, and I plan to keep it that way - no bottles of expressed milk OR formula. Might look at expressing in the future, but not any time soon... I'm wondering if I'm on the right track so far - DS and I had an awesome bfing experience, DD1 and I didn't. (Some might remember these issues, I dunno...) Anyways, so far, DD2 has been doing pretty good. She has a fantastic latch and sucks great. No problems at all there, I think. She also hasn't left me sore yet, and I don't think my milk has quite come in just yet. I do get the tingling feeling when she nurses, though! So far I've been feeding her on demand only. Since I had some definite issues with supply with DD1, I've been trying to offer her a breast each and every time she wakes or cries or just wants to suck. She really likes to suck! Also, when I do feed her, she feeds for about 20 minutes and then by that time, she's normally fast asleep (I do try and wake her or keep her sucking by pulling away slightly or rubbing her cheek a bit) then I try and get a burp and then put her back on the same side she was feeding off of, rather than switch sides (like I know I did with DS) I had so many problems with DD1 last year and I *really* do not want to make the same mistakes or have the same problems... I think with DD1, though, the problem was that she slept so well at night - slept 6-7 hours right through the night since the day we came home, and by 3 months was sleeping a good 12 hours all night long without waking, so I don't think we had the chance to establish anything. DD2, OTOH, wakes up at night. I honestly don't know how often, as I normally kind of roll over at night, pull her out of her basinette, feed her and roll over and put her back to sleep in her bed... I would say she gets up in fairly even intervals at night, and about 2-3 times between about 11pm and 7am. Am I on the right track so far? I'm just so scared of having similar problems this time that I did with DD1... She had started to lose weight around 4ish months, IIRC, and I tried everything possible - lactation consultants, bfing clinics, a variety of manual expression, manual and electric pumps, even the mega expensive Medela Symphony one, pills, diet changes, you name it. I ended up having to put her on a bottle and, for some odd reason, I had a very hard time dealing with that whole situation. With DS, everything seemed to go so well with very little effort, for lack of a better word... It's been some time, but I almost feel like it's starting out with DD2 the same way it did with DS. Anyways, any suggestions or comments? |
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it sounds as if you are doing fine! it's difficult to know why things didn't
go so well last time because you were doing the right things, feeding on demand and everything, but don't borrow trouble, sounds like this one is doing really well Anne |
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"Anne Rogers" wrote in message ... it sounds as if you are doing fine! it's difficult to know why things didn't go so well last time because you were doing the right things, feeding on demand and everything, but don't borrow trouble, sounds like this one is doing really well Anne Yes, so far, I think all is going well! I'm going to weigh her tomorrow at the clinic, although she might not be back up to birth weight just yet, or she might be! |
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You may want to make sure the positioning is really good.
Her mouth should be open as wide as possible and the nipple should be as deep as possible into her mouth. When nursing your second baby, you're accustomed to nursing an older baby; but with a newborn, their mouth is smaller so the positioning has to be really perfect. Also, your nipple has probably grown during the last bf experience, so it's larger than last time you were bf a newborn, so again it's challenging with the newborn's small mouth and the positioning has to be just right. I'm not sure if "tingly feeling" is exactly what you ought to be feeling. Maybe that's what you would feel if the nipple is not deep enough into her mouth, so that she is stimulating the surface skin of your breast and her jaws are not stimulating the deeper breast tissue. Sorry if I'm getting you worried about nothing. Pull her close to you and make sure her mouth is open very very wide. You can listen for the sound of her swallowing. At the beginning of a feeding, it's a pattern like suck-suck-suck-suck as she stimulates the breast. But then it should change to a pattern like suck-swallow-suck-swallow or suck-suck-swallow-suck-suck-swallow or even swallow-swallow-swallow etc. There are subtle differences between the suck motion and the swallow motion. If you watch her throat you should see it move a lot more during the swallow motion. If you listen very carefully you should hear a tiny click sound during the swallow, like the sound when you or another adult swallows something. If it's all suck-suck-suck motions, it means that the breast is not stimulated properly, she's getting some milk but mostly foremilk and it's smaller amounts, and you need to get her mouth open wider and pull her in closer to you so her jaw can press onto deeper breast tissue (but with the nose still free to breathe). If there are at least several swallow motions per feeding it means things are going well. You might want to check with a lactation consultant or LLL leader to see if they think the baby's positioning is good. You might want to get more than one opinion. Or maybe just don't worry! Maybe everything's just fine. "xkatx" ) writes: DD2 is 3 days old... So far, I think we've been doing good with everything. She's a 100% bf baby, and I plan to keep it that way - no bottles of expressed milk OR formula. Might look at expressing in the future, but not any time soon... I'm wondering if I'm on the right track so far - DS and I had an awesome bfing experience, DD1 and I didn't. (Some might remember these issues, I dunno...) Anyways, so far, DD2 has been doing pretty good. She has a fantastic latch and sucks great. No problems at all there, I think. She also hasn't left me sore yet, and I don't think my milk has quite come in just yet. I do get the tingling feeling when she nurses, though! So far I've been feeding her on demand only. Since I had some definite issues with supply with DD1, I've been trying to offer her a breast each and every time she wakes or cries or just wants to suck. She really likes to suck! Also, when I do feed her, she feeds for about 20 minutes and then by that time, she's normally fast asleep (I do try and wake her or keep her sucking by pulling away slightly or rubbing her cheek a bit) then I try and get a burp and then put her back on the same side she was feeding off of, rather than switch sides (like I know I did with DS) I had so many problems with DD1 last year and I *really* do not want to make the same mistakes or have the same problems... I think with DD1, though, the problem was that she slept so well at night - slept 6-7 hours right through the night since the day we came home, and by 3 months was sleeping a good 12 hours all night long without waking, so I don't think we had the chance to establish anything. DD2, OTOH, wakes up at night. I honestly don't know how often, as I normally kind of roll over at night, pull her out of her basinette, feed her and roll over and put her back to sleep in her bed... I would say she gets up in fairly even intervals at night, and about 2-3 times between about 11pm and 7am. Am I on the right track so far? I'm just so scared of having similar problems this time that I did with DD1... She had started to lose weight around 4ish months, IIRC, and I tried everything possible - lactation consultants, bfing clinics, a variety of manual expression, manual and electric pumps, even the mega expensive Medela Symphony one, pills, diet changes, you name it. I ended up having to put her on a bottle and, for some odd reason, I had a very hard time dealing with that whole situation. With DS, everything seemed to go so well with very little effort, for lack of a better word... It's been some time, but I almost feel like it's starting out with DD2 the same way it did with DS. Anyways, any suggestions or comments? |
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