Sentences with phrase «baby than the pump»

Being at the breast allows the natural process to happen and your body is more responsive to baby than a pump which is essentially tricking your body into thinking it is a baby.

We all know that it's easier to feed the baby than the pump.

Not exact matches

Be patient and pump one to two times more often than baby eats until your body adjusts.

Pumps are less efficient than a nursing baby and your supply may drop in the beginning.

Of course, there are options for women to pump their milk to offer their child a bottle, but for women who struggle to even produce enough milk to keep their hungry baby satisfied, anything other than formula - feeding isn't always an option.

I am lucky to be blessed with an oversupply of milk and only need to pump 4x / day to make way more than my baby needs.

The pumping with you feeding the baby with a bottle is a great idea but typically should wait until at least 3 weeks so it doesn't interfere with the baby's breastfeeding (the bottle is easier for the baby than sucking on the breast).

With breastfeeding, once one month arrives, mom has the option of pumping so you can feed your baby and let her get 4 + hours of sleep at one time, which is way better than two two - hour stretches.

I might not have had that horrible surgical experience, might have been able to hold my baby sooner than 8 hours after birth, would not have had my system pumped full of drugs I'm allergic to, and would have been able to nurse my baby, instead of the uneducated hospital staff shoving bottles at him.

As it turned out, my baby was born 10 weeks early and I had to pump ever few hours with almost no supply... for FIVE weeks, the only reason we made it through was because of online friends and their pushiness: — RRB - Weirdly enough, when I did meet with the lactation consultant in the NICU, I knew more than HER about some of the tricks!

A major milestone for new moms who pump is the four hours straight sleep (10x better than two separate two hour stretches) made possible by you feeding the baby for a shift.

A mother who is going back to the workplace full - time is certainly going to do a lot more pumping than a mom who's staying at home and offers the baby an occasional bottle.

But even those benefits don't seem worth it when your breasts are engorged, when your baby is sleeping through the night yet you still have to get up at 3 a.m. to pump, and when you can't enjoy more than a couple of beers on a Saturday night.

Adrienne, You can be sure that your baby is getting more from you than you are able to pump.

So don't stress out if you pump less than your baby is drinking during the day.

Babies are much more efficient than a pump.

Nursing is the one area of parenting where it seems that dads can do little more than go get the baby in the middle of the night and maybe wash some pump accessories when applicable.

Note: If your milk supply is low but your baby latches and sucks well, breastfeeding more frequently will be more effective and more enjoyable than pumping.

However, many working mamas return to the office much sooner than that, which is why finding an effective, portable breast pump to use while you're away from baby is so important.

It's much harder to keep up a supply of breastmilk when you're exclusively pumping than when you're putting baby directly on your breast.

If your baby is taking more from the bottle than you are pumping, and more than they normally would take at a feeding, are they willing to «pace» your baby's feeding?

With the additional stimulation you may make more milk than your baby needs, increasing your risk of engorgement and mastitis, especially if you go for several hours without feeding or pumping.

A baby with a good latch is able to remove more milk than a pump can.

«Babies are generally more efficient than a pump at getting milk out of the breast, so a new mom may find that her baby is eating more expressed breastmilk than she's pumping.

I feel very unsure about nursing because with my older son I was convinced that I wasn't producing enough for him (I could only pump 1/2 an ounce at a time, but I realize baby gets more than the pump).

So in most cases you pump less than what your baby gets directly from the breast.

I like when I teach moms about breast pumps at my job I like to tell them skin to skin is usually where our body is used to what our body is expecting for milk output which is why the baby is a better pump than an electric pump.

Remember that a baby is always able to get more milk from a breast than a pump, so don't be alarmed if you only get small volumes.

Instead I spent five weeks strapped to a breast pump rather than cuddling with my baby because everybody told me to just try harder.

The group started by listing the some of the reasons that pumping is less than pleasant — lack of user education (on suction level, positioning, importance of having the correct size flanges), difficulty with milk let - down (no cute baby there to help, the pumping mom is often under a time crunch), too many parts to sanitize and clean, the motor is loud and mechanical, some women find the process degrading, and social norms (breast pumping is seen as something to be embarrassed by and hidden).

I also nurse in between pumps for the extra stimulation (but baby doesn't get much if anything at all - I can see she's not doing the swallowing and sucking more than 10 - 20 seconds the entire time).

Your baby's little mouth is much more efficient at getting the milk out, and your body responds differently to the baby than to the pump.

That is okay for those mothers I guess that can't figure out how to tweak their pumps but I personally like the double feature where you can adjust the suction as you want it and the speed as you want it because you can do it closer to your baby than say that one button push because that's what pretty much the manufacturer's the best standard and that's what you're going to get.

Ideally, you should be pumping for a total of 120 minutes a day; the number of times per day depends on the age of your baby (seven to ten times a day for a newborn, as few as two or three for a baby older than six months).

In the end, your baby will be overfed and you will be pressured to pump more milk than he actually needs.

A woman who spends thousands on lactation consultants, pumps, antibiotics, galactogogues, etc. and still has to spend 45 minutes to an hour with the baby at the breast and then pumping afterwards (with added time for storing or feeding the pumped breastmilk, and cleaning the pump) would likely not consider breastfeeding to be easier, quicker or less expensive than exclusively formula feeding.

The U.S. Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law in 2010, requires employers to provide moms of babies younger than 12 months a reasonable break time for pumping and a private place to pump, other than a bathroom.

Aside from that I would also pump occasionally if my husband or another family member wanted to feed the baby or if I wanted to be away for longer than 3 hours.

I had far, far, far, FAR more pain and problems with engorgement and oversupply with the baby I did breastfeed — I am talking months of problems — than with the baby I pumped milk for.

It has been said many times over and most mothers who nurse would agree that there is no better breast pump than baby!

I make all my homemade baby food and I don't think pumping will bother me if I should continue for longer than a year.

If your baby is younger than 6 months old and you're away from your little one for long stretches during the day (for instance, at work), pump or hand express every 3 hours to maintain your supply.

It turns out, when you get up to pump at 4:30 a.m. when everyone else, including baby is asleep, it can be super chill rather than stressful.

Donated breast milk is very safe; it comes from mothers that have pumped more milk than their own baby can eat.

This time I'm fairly confident I can nurse one baby for a year + so it makes more sense to buy a pump for $ 300 than rent a pump for $ 50 / month.

If baby isn't latching at all, hand expression is much more effective than pumping IF done properly.

By the way, my husband made an appointment with with a lactation consultant (a lady who was his lactation consultant when he was a baby, 40 years of extra erience) and I agreed to go just for him hoping that she will help me to explain my husband that there is not enough milk and we need formula (I could pump no more than 4 oz a day only).

As far as going out, I would always bring pumped milk for my baby, and only bring my pump if I was going to be gone more than 3 hours or so (or during a time when I would normally pump).

I pump almost 40 oz which is way more than baby can eat.

If you count up all of the dollars I spent on pumps, lactation consultants, supplemental nursing systems, prescription medications, bottles, herbal supplements, extra food (because I wanted to eat everything in sight), and nursing wear and bras, I probably spent thousands of dollars to breastfeed my children, much more than I would have spent if I had formula fed my babies from the start.