Some moms don't
produce enough colostrum in the first few days after giving birth.
I was not
producing enough colostrum / milk in the hospital and my baby wouldn't urinate.
First, what if it is the mother with the pathological condition that prevents her from
producing enough colostrum / milk for the infant to feed adequately?
Not exact matches
The
colostrum your body is
producing is still absolutely
enough for baby's nutritional needs.
At 1 day old, your newborn baby's stomach capacity will be just 5 - 7 mililitres (or 1/2 Tablespoons) so that tiny bit of
colostrum you're
producing truly is
enough for baby at each feed.
I kept asking the nurses if I was making
enough colostrum and they said I was, but they never, ever checked to see if I was even
producing colostrum.
She had me pump and looked at the
colostrum I
produced and said it looked like
enough; we bottle fed what I pumped so it wasn't wasted.
All variations are completely normal and if you don't
produce any
colostrum during your pregnancy, that doesn't mean you'll have trouble
producing enough milk for your baby after he or she is born.
They soon found out that the reason her temp was so high was because she was dehydrated from not eating
enough, this was do to the lack of
colostrum and milk my breasts were
producing (pretty much I wasn't
producing anything) I felt absolutely horrible that I could not tell, I felt like a bad mom that I was unable to breastfeed my daughter.
Babies need small quantities of
colostrum in the first days (but as much as they will take of course) and even mothers who later have trouble
producing enough milk usually make
enough colostrum.
Some mothers worry that they're not
producing enough milk for their babies, but don't worry, you don't need to
produce much
colostrum to be able to fill that little tummy.