You can probably feel when I'm suckling nutritively and
swallowing lots of milk, and when I'm kind of relaxed about it, feeding sort of like I'm savoring a bowl of ice cream... you know how sometimes, you scrape just a tiny bit onto your spoon, because you want it to last a long time?
Not exact matches
So, but then I started to have a
lot of milk production and my babies weren't
swallowing or sucking very well, and so it kept coming and coming and I kept getting engorged and engorged and having a
lot of pain actually.
Milk flows more quickly from a bottle nipple, and babies tend to gulp a
lot of air as they
swallow.
A mature
swallow:
Swallowing large volumes
of milk takes a
lot of strength, and babies need to develop the muscles in their tongue and jaw to
swallow well.
I suggest you feed the baby more often, do
lots of breast compression to help baby
swallow more
milk while nursing, and if the baby is still does not appear to be eating enough you should finger - feed your baby either pumped breast
milk or formula.
If you hear
lots of swallowing going on throughout the feeding, you know your baby is getting
lots of breast
milk.
If your baby is putting on
lots of weight try feeding from one breast at a time, using breast compressions until they stop
swallowing milk, and then swap
«But breastfed babies
swallow some air as well, especially if the mother has a
lot of milk or has a fast letdown, or if the baby is very hungry and wants to eat fast.»