You might need to concentrate on maintaining your milk supply by
increasing nursing frequency during the day (because your milk supply is directly connected to your baby's demand for milk).
By letting baby stretch
out nursing frequency on his own (and it will happen with time)-- you are preserving your nursing relationship and meeting baby's physical and emotional needs.
As long as the solids incorporate protein and fats, breastfed babies will sleep longer at night, with a decrease
in nursing frequency.
Scheduled feedings or other things that reduce baby's
nursing frequency too much (for example, pacifier overuse or sleep training).
Mothers who are working to remedy oversupply usually need to decrease supply without decreasing
overall nursing frequency or weaning baby.
Gradual Weaning When weaning happens gradually, it is a process by
which nursing frequency decreases slowly over time.
It was then that I was pregnant with her brother Julian and decided I need to cut back
her nursing frequency a bit for my own peace of mind.
In this way, more milk accumulates in the breast before mom switches sides (thus slowing milk production) but baby's
nursing frequency is not limited.
Well,
your nursing frequency shouldn't change too much after introducing solids.
Sometimes
your nursing frequency seems unreal.
It's almost as if this is part of the biology of breastfeeding a mobile baby, an almost - toddler — the uptake in
nursing frequency is a built - in break for the busy mother.
He may react by increasing
both his nursing frequency and duration.
Please use this merely as a reference and verify with your Pediatrician or Family Medicine doctor for your child, your specific medical condition, and
your nursing frequency.
Be sure to stay hydrated and focus on your baby's feeding cues to help with let down and
nursing frequency.
If you feel that your supply has decreased, it could simply be a byproduct of decreased
nursing frequency or dehydration due to your illness.