Not exact matches
I am breastfeeding exclusively and know that your
milk supply can be
decreased if you go too long without adequate stimulation, thus my aprehension to
just let my son sleep all the way till the first feeding of the day.
If there has been no
decrease in your
milk supply, or if there has been a small
decrease that does not affect the breastfeeding and baby's weight gain, that's
just what we hope to have happened, and many mothers manage this.
When baby is sick or teething and not nursing well, do you think pumping is important for
milk supply, or will
supply just decrease then increase again when baby is feeling better and nursing better?
About a month ago my
milk supply decreased, or so I thought, so I
just started giving him a bottle.
But most of the time if you're
just doing these things that we're talking about and you probably wouldn't have a drastic plummet of
milk supply, you would see a
decrease and you could kind of, look, in my experience most women are able to kind of play with what works for them so, they're not necessarily having a low
supply and then having a get it back up so they're more kind of playing with what works with their baby and their body
But some women find that they're
just not producing enough
milk for their baby's needs, or their
supply starts to
decrease after a while.
If the next feeding he doesn't nurse as well then he may need a little bit, so it's a gradual
decrease of supplementation as the babies feeding better and many times that supplementation at that point if mom is using a breast pump is breast
milk and so if it's formula to begin with then as her
milk supply increases in volume we switch it over, Some moms are under the impression that it's the formula that treats it, no, it's the
milk in general, the feeding that treats it, it's not that breast
milk is better than formula, I mean, we know that breast
milk is better than formula but it's not that formula is better, it's
just that sometimes the quantity is the key, absolutely