Sometimes a mom will produce too much milk because she inadvertently gives her body cues to produce that much — for example, by
pumping more milk than her baby needs.
Not exact matches
I am lucky to be blessed with an oversupply of
milk and only
need to
pump 4x / day to make way
more than my
baby needs.
With the additional stimulation you may make
more milk than your
baby needs, increasing your risk of engorgement and mastitis, especially if you go for several hours without feeding or
pumping.
In the end, your
baby will be overfed and you will be pressured to
pump more milk than he actually
needs.
By the way, my husband made an appointment with with a lactation consultant (a lady who was his lactation consultant when he was a
baby, 40 years of extra erience) and I agreed to go just for him hoping that she will help me to explain my husband that there is not enough
milk and we
need formula (I could
pump no
more than 4 oz a day only).
If you're nursing or
pumping frequently and still experiencing engorgement, you should monitor your output to make sure you aren't
pumping too much and causing yourself to produce
more milk than necessary to meet
baby's
needs.
JENNIFER: Well, at the time I didn't think much
more than there's a little
baby out there that
needs some food in her belly, so it was just a very natural «Okay, let's
pump, let's get some
milk and get it over to them as fast as I can.»
Pumps that cycle at a lower speed
than a
baby nurses (fewer
than 60 cycles per minute) and are used
more than twice a day may cause your
milk supply to gradually become mismatched to your
baby's
needs, and produce less
milk than your
baby wants.
Pumping Breast
Milk Your choice to pump milk can be a very serious decision and can be driven by a need to spend more than two hours away from your b
Milk Your choice to
pump milk can be a very serious decision and can be driven by a need to spend more than two hours away from your b
milk can be a very serious decision and can be driven by a
need to spend
more than two hours away from your
baby.
But other
than that we're not a 100 percent sure, sometimes it could be a thyroid issue, sometimes it could be because in the beginning if people are told to
pump a lot for whatever reason whether it's because they're concerned about their
milk not coming in or because there's a
need to get
more milk for
baby who's unable to breastfeed.
Lastly, your inability to maintain enough
pumped milk for your
baby could have
more to do with overfeeding and a perception that your
baby needs more than what you are producing.
Obviously you will be in a constant state of flux around this number as your
baby will be consuming some bottles and you will be
pumping into and adding some bottles, but this extra amount gives plenty of leeway for a sick or growing
baby, or a nervous dad who's heating up
more milk than they
need just in case...!
Lastly, the inability to maintain enough
pumped milk for your
baby could have
more to do with overfeeding and / or a perception that your
baby needs more than what you are producing.
Unfortunately in a lot of these cases mom's are advised by NICU staff to slow down
pumping as they have
more milk than they
need, but the NICU staff may forget that
babies grow and so do their breastmilk requirements and it's pretty easy to work through even a big stash of
milk if supply starts to dwindle.
Pumping can be useful to relieve engorgement, to help stimulate
milk production and of course to have
milk on hand if you
need to be away from your
baby for
more than a few hours.