Not exact matches
Truth: The amount of times a mother needs to
nurse her
baby in a day will depend on several factors, but
as a general rule of thumb, the more
nursing she does, the more milk she'll
produce.
But some
babies — like those who are fussy when they
nurse, or those whose moms
produce an overabundance of milk or have a very swift milk letdown — do gulp air
as they swallow.
Home birth, mama is a
nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding on a home birth, devoured much research on positive births and home births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it felt good, bath, natural endorphins
produce a feeling
as «high
as a kite», felt her own
baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!
The breast is never «empty» and also
produces milk
as the
baby nurses.
And if you choose, you can
nurse exclusively on the weekends, because the breast
produces milk immediately
as it is compressed by the
baby, and does not «store» milk from feed to feed.
If you're not
producing as much milk
as you'd like, or if your
baby is having any trouble
nursing, though, the ring may not be a good choice for you, because it may reduce the amount of milk you
produce by a bit.
Alternatively, if you express milk beyond what your
baby is taking to help ease some of the engorgement, you'll start to
produce even more (and your
nursing breasts will get even harder —
as if that were possible!).
They explained to me that this was especially important during the early months when my body was learning when to
produce milk but also how much to
produce and
baby was of course learning to
nurse efficiently
as well.
Nursing produces a hormone called oxytocin, sometimes referred to
as the «bonding» hormone because it's released through activities like cuddling, kissing, and well... that thing you did to make your
baby in the first place.
All I had to do was let our
baby nurse as much
as he wanted - even if it seemed that no milk was coming out - because the more a
baby nurses, the more milk will be
produced.
«Oh but you can just pump» well pumping isn't the same
as nursing, the amount and content of the milk you
produce in the morning is not the same
as what you
produce in the evening also many
babies refuse a bottle bc a bottle is not Mom and pumping may be better then formula but it does mess with yout bond and supply.
After the
baby was born, the woman was able to
produce 227 grams of breast milk daily; she
nursed for six weeks before adding formula to the
baby's diet
as a supplement because she was not
producing enough milk.
If your
baby is available to
nurse, this is preferable to pumping
as he will better stimulate your breasts to
produce more milk.