c) Child
just switched nursing schedules.
Not exact matches
Simply leave a
nursing pad on the side you need to feed on next, and
just switch it over after each feeding.
I would
just switch at one feeding from
nursing to pumping and bottle feeding during that time.
I would pump between feedings
just for others to feed him, but I have not been able to get any milk from pumping and he is still refusing to
nurse; I had to
switch to formula.
I see a lot of women who continue to have overactive letdown and so babies starts
nursing a little bit less like they
switch either having solid or kind of more than natural weaning process but until that point as baby is
nursing a lot I do tend to feel a lot moms continue to have an overactive letdown and it's not so much that that goes away, it's
just that mom and baby are better at handling it, so it's not a big of a problem
Whether it is
just a habit or belief that a baby has to suckle from both breasts to get enough milk, most moms will not finish even one
nursing session without
switching breasts.
But I am grateful for these ideas because after I
switched to
just nursing on one side (after like 5 months) then it went so much smoother - AH!!!
CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: We had a system where my husband you know, if you heard the baby storing, he would get up, he would diaper them and then he bring one to me because I wasn't really doing tandem
nursing at night but he'd bring one to me and then I'd kind of do the sideline thing,
nursing her in bed and then, after that, she was done then we
just switch and he'd you know, put that one down, get the other one.
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
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