Hi all,
I am mom of 8 weeks old girl and now I am experiencing mental stress due to Breastfeeding issues, I am not sure what is going wrong my little one sucks within 5 mins on every feed and even my breast becomes very soft like ballon after she sucks .she becomes restless on my breast and I offer her another breast even there she stays only for 10 mins which make me feel that Am i producing less milk. She is not pooing regularly and we are in position to provide her with formula often which make me to stress more. She sleeps Hardly for an hour and she wants to feed often, but my breast is not full within an hour , it takes 3 hours to get leaky breast but she is not giving that much time between feeds and I feel because of that she gets only little and become restless. Any advice on how to improve milk supply and any one experience the breast getting emptied within 5 mins and becoming so soft like balloon and not getting refilled after offering on another breast at same time ? Many say if one breast is emptied and while offering another the first one gets filled but that is not happening with me.
As your breasts regulate to your babies needs they don't need to become full, they'll have in them the amount they need. The way I've been told to think about it is that they're rivers not lakes, there will always be milk there, just the more baby drinks from you the faster the river will flow. Using formula might mean that your flow is not regulating as your body doesn't think you need it to be producing so much.
At 8 is there's a big growth and development spurt so they could be fuss your boob to up your supply.
The best way to up supply is letting baby feed as much as possible, lots of skin to skin and cuddles. Switch breasts a couple of times each feed and cut down/it the formula to ups.
After about 8 weeks it's fairly common for breastfed babies not to poo everyday, my little girl would go about every third day, my friends little girl once went 12 days. It's very normal. As long as baby is having wet nappies and weight gain, I wouldn't worry too much.
There's a really good Facebook grip called UK breastfeeding, or websites like kellymom and la leche league have got lots of really good breastfeeding advice xx
Thanks Seb9. Yes she is having good heavy nap pies , but not pooing , initially as well she was having this problem and doctor told she is having only first milk and not 2nd stage. Due to this she did not come back to her birth weight until 22 days, so doctor advices to have formula as well.
As long as her belly is nice and soft, she's having mustard coloured liquid poo and not struggling then poo every few days is fine as long as she's putting on weight.
If you let her feed from one boob for a long as possible before changing bonds she will be getting the fattier parts of the milk, but your body will keep producing milk all the time she won't be able to drain you only have a slower flow and harder time getting the milk out (which is what the fussing is about).
If baby is gaining weight and having wet nappies, sounds like you're doing a great job.
With the formula and bottles of you have a look at pace feeding so that they don't develop a bottle preference as it is easier for them to gulp back a bottle than to get the milk from your boob. Then you might be able to do less formula and get back to just breastfeeding.
Here's an article from Kelly mom about fore and hind milk too which is really interesting kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/ba...