"Block feeding" refers to a breastfeeding technique where a mother feeds her baby on one breast for multiple feedings in a row, before switching to the other breast. This method is often used when a baby has a strong milk flow or an oversupply of breast milk, to help regulate the baby's feeding and prevent complications like choking or excessive weight gain.
Full definition
If baby's weight gain is double this or more,
block feeding for no longer than 1 week makes sense.
As a result, some mothers bring down their milk production
with block feeding when their supply is actually at a healthy level, leading to other problems, such as slow weight gain.
In this case,
block feeding used for no longer than 1 week can be a boon for both mother and baby.
Rather than
block feeding as I tried earlier which led me to have one empty and one full breast after each of baby's meals.
After I recovered from the
spinal block I feed her, I had no idea what I was doing and had very little support for the first few days.
With block feeding, the mother will feed the baby from the same breast for an extended duration, such as 3 - 4 hours.
I then tried
block feeding on one side for six hours then switching, to reduce the supply, which sort of worked but in the meantime my boy had more foremilk to deal with.
Well, after countless miserable nights, endless soaked sheets, and a truly extraordinary amount of tears and late night googling, I
discovered block feeding, which means that you restrict baby to feeding on just one breast for a three - hour (or longer) period before offering another, and in desperation I gave it the old college try.
Block feeding involves restricting baby to one breast for 3 - hour or longer blocks of time before giving the other breast.
The most reliable gauge of
whether block feeding may be helpful is baby's weight gain.If breastfeeding is going well, during the first 3 months, most babies gain on average about 2 lb / mo.
I try to do laid back nursing, side by side nursing, clamping (which makes him mad) and leaning back and have been
consistently block feeding.
Be sure to work with a lactation consultant to decide
if Block Feeding is right for you.
The other would be sore, hot and swollen (I do not recommend this kind of
extreme block feeding — I'm lucky I didn't get mastitis), and when I did switch to it, I would usually have to hold Sweet Baby James at bay for the first three minutes of the let - down.
Mothers
who block feed require monitoring because milk production slows when a baby is limited to only one breast for three hour blocks of time.)
I did more research and decided to try
block feeding so she'd get the fattier milk she seemed to need.
He
also blocked the feed following a spat over the Supreme Court of Canada's 2014 Senate reform reference decision in which Bad Legal teased: «You guys are cute when you try to play lawyer.»
I
started block feeding and if it was getting really painful I'd just squeeze out a tad in the shower instead of emptying.
See my blog post, The Dos and Don'ts
of Block Feeding, for the specifics about these strategies.
If you ever have reason to suspect that the baby is getting mostly foremilk due to symptoms such as - greenish bowel movements - slow weight gain PLUS very frequent eating (very frequent eating alone is not a symptom, it can indicate a growth spurt, a needy baby, and a host of other situations) It may be worth
trying block feeding.
I don't like how he hunts them some times, but that one was 100 % legit — played good D, then fed the player into the help, and got a beauty of a block
I second, third, whatever — all the comments about possible oversupply and
block feeding, even expressing and ounce or two before putting him on the boob so he gets more of the hindmilk.
That exact thing happened to a friend of mine, and it was solved almost immediately by switching to
block feeding.
If baby's weight gain isn't this high, it is likely that
block feeding will cause more problems than it solves.
This mom assumed from this behavior that she had an overactive let - down (OALD) and started a strategy called «
block feeding.»
Armed with this knowledge, I started to
block feed.
«
Block feeding» can help to decrease your supply a bit.
«Currently,
block feeding is a «last resort» method due to supply concerns,» Sproat says.
I used a technique called «
block feeding».