Club Breastfeeding Mums

[lyra]

butt8rfly:

hi i am trying to continue latching my 11mth #1 as my supply drop as i now have #2 edd Oct 2013.


Any mummies have similar experience? my supply is very pitiful now...

Me too supply dropped after I'm pregnant with number two. But my elder child is 18 mth n i think it shd be time to wean him off. I'm waiting for him to wean himself. U can try to supplement with formula now and latch once or twice a day. When ur supply comes after u give birth, u can tandem feed both children. I'm supplementing one time a day. He eats mostly solids. Remember to give more water as our babies now lack the hydration they usually get from breastmilk.

Ur nipples don't hurt when latching ur baby? Mine hurts but my baby likes to be latched so no choice.

[buds]

I breastfed my tiger_chubs whilst preggie with dragon_boi, alternated with formula just in case caregiving would be a problem when i was in confinement period since hubs was my confinement man-ny. Yup, same for me.. supply dropped a little but regained in full force once i delivered.


I gotta tandem feed most times as they both eat and sleep almost the same time almost every other day. Still feel frequent let downs since the boys drink A LOT. If i feed them a little late the boobies will go one size up.

No sensitive nippy issue at all. Until today...

Only bitey problem with the lil dragon growing his big white forks up front. 4 teeth now. Two up and two down like a wittle wabbit. :please: Soooo cute. :love:

[butt8rfly]

Thanks Tanyo


Hi Lyra
My nipples will feel tender at the first few seconds but after a while, it goes numb. My supply is dropping to nearly zero now and I am trying to maintain it.

Hi Buds
Thanks for being encouraging and that it is possible to still have decent supply. I shall continue trying! By the way are you sahm? i do hope to do tandem feed when my supply is back!

[Babesmum]

i have breastfed my girl for 8 months. But since coming to work, supply is lower. I have a few issues, hope the exprerienced mums can advise. (1) Is it safe to give frozen breastmilk? (2) If i supplement with milk power, will it reduce the good effects of breastmilk? (3) How do i supplement with milk powder? (4) Which brand of powder is good?

[piyobaby]

Babesmum:

i have breastfed my girl for 8 months. But since coming to work, supply is lower. I have a few issues, hope the exprerienced mums can advise. (1) Is it safe to give frozen breastmilk? (2) If i supplement with milk power, will it reduce the good effects of breastmilk? (3) How do i supplement with milk powder? (4) Which brand of powder is good?

I was an exclusive pumping mummy and definitely it is safe to feed frozen breast milk taking care on the storage and expiry of the frozen breast milk. Personally I do not think that supplementing with formula milk will reduce the benefits of breast milk, I would say perhaps best of both worlds. Depending on your current supply, you could try to supplement with formula by giving one feed a day or alternating every other feed, no right or wrong. As for brands of formula milk, it is very subjective and individual, some decide based on nutritional values while some cost factor.

Anyway your baby is 8mths old, have you wean her with semi solid?

[sembgal]

Babesmum:

i have breastfed my girl for 8 months. But since coming to work, supply is lower. I have a few issues, hope the exprerienced mums can advise. (1) Is it safe to give frozen breastmilk? (2) If i supplement with milk power, will it reduce the good effects of breastmilk? (3) How do i supplement with milk powder? (4) Which brand of powder is good?

It is absolutely safe to give frozen breastmilk. If your mother-in-law is taking care of your child, it will be better for your husband to speak to her about the issue on giving your child frozen breastmilk that has been thawed and warmed. Traditional older folks are not keen on the idea of babies consuming thawed frozen milk.

The good effects of breastmilk will not be compromised if supplement with milk powder.

You can supplement milk powder as and when you feel there is a need. If you have ample supply of frozen breastmilk, you do not need to supplement with milk powder.

The brand of milk powder depends on personal choice. One brand may be good to another but may not be suitable for your child. For example, some brands of milk powder can cause constipation or watery stools in babies. You have to try to find out the effect.

[Nihauma]

now that baby is older breast feeding made easier. she just lifts up my shirt and lie down on my arm. her que for feeding . have to stop her in public though. now she can say milk milk. after a while she just turn and say no more…then i shift her to another breast. no more crying or try to decipher cries .

[icy_mama]

Nihauma:

now that baby is older breast feeding made easier. she just lifts up my shirt and lie down on my arm. her que for feeding . have to stop her in public though. now she can say milk milk. after a while she just turn and say no more....then i shift her to another breast. no more crying or try to decipher cries .

:please: that's when breastfeeding gets enjoyable, even pleasurable. so much that we dunno how to stop.

nihauma, i envy u...

[Shin Yan]

Would like to ask the mummies here whom bf their kids at 2 years old, does your kid reject meat? As bm is the source of protein, does their body reject another source of protein? My boy will vomit the meat fed to him like 3/4 of the time. This include soup that had been boiled with meat as well. I was wondering if others who extended bf their kids had this problem as well. He is on mostly bm except for some days where a scoop of fm will be mixed into his ebm if ebm is not enough on that day.

[Nihauma]

hi shin yan my girl doesnt hv this problem. she is one and a half. all along he does this or only recently?