Excl pumping wanting to excl breastfeed help plz
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Topic: Excl pumping wanting to excl breastfeed help plz
Posted By: Christina135349
Subject: Excl pumping wanting to excl breastfeed help plz
Date Posted: 17 December 2013 at 10:15pm
Hi everyone I need some help. Little one has been exclusively drinking pumped breast milk for 5 weeks. Baby sometimes drinks from a nipple shield but he doesn't like it very much. I have also tried to put him on my breast but my nipples are a little flat (use to be inverted 5 weeks ago!) and he doesn't open his mouth wife enough or stay on. But for a minute on and off he will suck. I don't have milk supply issues though I wonder if the let down is too full on for him.
My lactation consultant told me to get him to suck on my nipple shield for 15-20 mins each feed but I found doing it made his feed almost an hour long and with the need to pump as well took me almost 2 hours to do one feeding. By then I had to feed again or had to feed earlier and pumping was missed out. My milk went down as I tried this for a few days. To be honest I was too tired to continue doing it and went back to just pumping and feeding.
Now that I have a better handle on motherhood I wanted to do try again but I don't want to go through weening off a nipple shield. If rather go from bottle fed exclusively to breast fed exclusively.
Anyone know how best to do this or if there's a way to do this?
I'm dying to get this sorted as I have to return my rented pump next week. I originally was going to stop breast milk and go straight to formulae when this happened. But I really want to give it another go. I'd love to breastfeed if I could for as long as possible I no longer want to go to formula.
Please help!
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Posted By: Nic03
Date Posted: 17 December 2013 at 11:08pm
Hi there,
I exclusively pumped for the first 11 weeks with my little girl. I couldn't get her to latch, and I had very flat nipples. - I didn't like using the breast shields. At about 9 weeks, she kind of worked out what she needed to do. I think it was because I was more relaxed to be honest and she was a little more coordinated. I started with one breast feed a day and continued to express.
I just made sure we had lots of skin to skin time and made sure she wasn't to hungry
Good luck xx
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Posted By: nani123
Date Posted: 19 December 2013 at 9:38pm
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Try plunket, I went to their family centre in north shore (sure they should have something similar in other places as well) and you stay there for the morning/afternoon and the nurses/lactation consultant will help you with each feed. They also help you to get baby to nap etc so it is a casual day where you just focus on feeding your baby. I went two times and it really helped a lot.
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