Now I know why I wasn't able to breastfeed my kids: I watched the news during early -
morning feeding sessions.
In case you are at home and storing milk or attempting to augment your supply, try to pump an hour or so after your LO's
morning feeding session (or pump one breast while she / he is feeding on the other).
Not exact matches
Ideally, you want to pump after your baby's
morning nursing
session, or you can pump as she's
feeding on one breast.
You can add a
session after your first
feed in the
morning, as this is a time when most moms find they are very full, or you can add a
session an hour or two after you put your daughter down for the evening.
If they were awake at 6 am and had been awake from a previous coaching or
feeding session and it was clear they were not going to back to sleep, we would leave the room, count to 10, then go back into the room and turn on all the lights and loudly exclaim «GOOD
MORNING!!!»
To make sure you keep up your supply at night, I'd add a bowl of oatmeal as a bedtime snack (it can be instant — it doesn't have to be the kind you cook on top of the stove) and add in a pumping
session right before you go to bed (you can pump and eat oatmeal at the same time) and right after her first
morning feed.
some times I pump more in my first
session but I
fed my son this
morning before he went to daycare.
Three months of doing a pumping
session after the
morning feed, storing it all up so you'd have plenty when you went back to work.
I am so impressed by the research on telomeres and glutathione that I take a high quality organic grass
fed whey protein called Miracle Whey protein every
morning, and a second dose before my twice - weekly strength training
sessions.
Even after lengthy
morning sessions where I browsed RSS
feeds, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter in equal measure, the battery indicator rarely dipped below 50 percent before 5 p.m. YouTube videos and albums streamed from Google Play Music tended to drain it faster, predictably, but I was only able to drain it completely one of the days I tested.
Sprog 2 and I kicked off the
morning with a penguin patting / turtle
feeding session in the hotel gardens (Hilton Hawaiian Village rocks!)