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Feeding worries
Hoping someone could tell me they have had the same issues with their baby and what I could do. I breastfeed my 4 month old and have been told by the maternal nurse that he has not put on enough weight in the month. I really feel that my milk is not drying up however am trying to feed every 2 hrs to increase it if thats the case. What my problem is, as I feed him, my baby pulls off the nipple and turns away. Then goes back to nipple and suckles then pulls off again to turn away. He gets himself upset as I can see he is hungry and wanting to feed but keeps pulling himself off. I did think that maybe the breast was empty so I'd swap breastsand he'd suck for a while on the other then do the same. Now that the midwife has told me his underweight, I have checked and when he begins pulling off, I still have milk. Is it wind? He still does the same after I burp him so I dont know. Please help as I'm desperately want to breastfeed longer.
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Re: Feeding worries
My daughter was also slow at gaining weight, but I continued breastfeeding her until she weaned herself at about 13-14 mths. She had quite bad reflux (does he show any signs of that, or even silent reflux), and even when I did try the odd bottle of formula (after my mother in law promising me she'd hold it down and therefore gain weight) she still threw that up anyway. Is your son gaining weight every week/month? And not losing it? If so, don't worry. I was in the same situation. My daughter always gained weight every week, even if it wasn't much. With my son, I don't even bother getting him weighed that often, and I don't stress, as I know things will turn out fine. My daughter is at the correct weight and height for her age now, and is rarely ever sick, so I am glad I continued with breastfeeding. My 4mth old son pulls away from the breast when I have a let down, as my milk flows quite fast. Maybe this could be the problem? Are you feeding him too often? My son feeds every 3-4 hours, if I try to feed him more often than that, he's not interested. Don't give up breastfeeding just yet!
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Re: Feeding worries
Hi
As Mummabear has mentioned it may depend on the chart being used. It depends on which state you are in. Here in WA they now use new charts because the old charts were done on bottle fed babies and they have a different growth pattern to breast fed babies. For this reason the charts have recently be reviewed.
There is a great article on the Breastfeeding Australia article that talks about how to know if bubs is getting enough and how to increase your supply here.
Also available through Breastfeeding Australia is free telephone or email counselling and you don't have to be a member. Here is the link for more information on that.
I am just at the 6 month mark myself. I had similar difficulties to what you describe and tried similar methods with success. The other thing I tried was expressing. I had quite abundant milk supply earlier on so I figured that bub probably wasn't used to sucking very hard so I used my hand pump. The other thing that has really helped me is the herb fenugreek. A friend of mine was put on to fenugreek tablets (available in the health food shop) by her lactation consultant. I have found that taking one when supply seems to be low is helpful.
I also found that when supply was low my nipples take a beating. She bites them in frustration. I am very lucky the physio at my local hospital has a laser that helps them to heal. This was a free service with a referral from my child health nurse. You may have to hunt around to find a physio with such a laser but it does help. The other thing I did was to cancel what I could so I could stay home and rest for a few days and spend lots of time holding and cuddling baby.
Hope this helps
cheers
Kim
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Re: Feeding worries
I was the last person to believe that my baby was skinny, I just didn't see it. I look at the photo's of her then and cringe thoguh. I wasn't making enough. I had lactation experts help me oput and everything and when I wasn't feeding her I was pumping, I was on couch ALL the time with my boobs hanging out, it got depressing and impossible. Our daughter has a couple of mouth rellated issues that prevented her from getting a good suction when she latched, and my boobs are big and apparently thats a bad thing as well. Bubs roof of her mouth is too high, they push the nipple to the roof of their mouth to milk it and her mouth is very high, so this was difficult, plus (I forget the propper name) piece of skin that goes from your inner top lip through your front teeth to your pallet..well that was big but tight and her lip couldn't curl up which they have to do to get the good suction thing going. It was a nightmare. After 3.5 months I had to take her with me across the country to be in a wedding and I just new I couldn't keep this sitting on the couch boob brandishing thing any longer, so I switched. WOW. Bub thrived from that day on, she porked up within a week...7 days, it was before your very eyes stuff. She hasn't looked back and neither have I. Exhaust your options and then make the right decission for YOU. If thats continue to feed him, then great if it's to switch to bottles, then thats great too. Breast is not always best, it nearly broke me mentally, so how can that be best.........a happy mummy makes for a happy babe.
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Re: Feeding worries
I just wanted to add, that my daughter was alert, she had plenty of wet nappies, she wasn't lethargic, and she didn't LOSE weight, she just barely gained any. And I spent a fortune on a lactation consultant through ABA, I went to the Dr. I did everything I was supposed to do and thats what I meant by exhausting all your options before making an informed deccision. I changed my mind on what I was going to do every 2 hours for a month. It is not an easy deccision to make.
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I don't understand why you don't like my advice when I said everything everyone else did and you liked their's...was it the typo's?
Just wanted to say that who ever low voted my advice, it was hurtful, you low voted MY EXPERIENCE...how can you vote on that? MY experience can't be poor......I answered a question with good intentions, I gave valid advice. Who ever it is going around low voting responses to questions answered has got the wrong idea on how Minti works. have a think about it..this isn't a written piece of advice that "works for you or doesn't" this is me being nice enough to take the time to try and answer someone elses question, with a response gleaned from my personal experience.
This is happeneing too often and not just to me, but to many and who ever is doing it needs to put themselves in the position of the person they are about to low vote, before they do it...would you like it? Grow Up! You are not being helpful.
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