Tuesday, 05 January 2010
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Breastfeeding Questions...
A new mom recently asked some very good questions on her blog about breast feeding. We thought we'd ask the Momaroo community to share their experiences as well:
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day?
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
3. How long did you breastfeed?
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?
5. When did you introduce solid foods?
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1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day?
I don't remember mine ever being that sore. He had a really good latch. The better the latch the less it will hurt.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
Didn't have any.3. How long did you breastfeed?19 months.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?I did a little in the first few weeks because he refused to latch until he was 3 weeks old. I couldn't pump enough so I had to give formula here and there. After I got him latched on, never used it.
5. When did you introduce solid foods?He started nibbling at 7 months, didn't have solid food "meals" until 10 months. I never gave him baby food.
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day? - I was a little sore at first, but it wasn't too bad. A good latch is key!!
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump? - I hated the engorgement at night and couldn't seem to get rid of it even if i stopped pumping and feeding at night.....so i just pumped once at night so i could build up my frozen milk storage for when i weaned her (I knew i would BF for 12 months)
3. How long did you breastfeed? I started weaning at 5 months....supplemented with the frozen breastmilk i had.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula? I think i started formula at 7 months
5. When did you introduce solid foods? Right before 6 months.
1. Have your latch evaluated right away! It shouldn't hurt. I know mine did a little for about 10 days, though, even with a good latch. I just counted to 5. If I made it to 5 and it still hurt, I gentlybroke the latch with my pinky and we tried again. 9 times out of 10 by the time I made it to the end of my little countdown, everything was fine.
2. That has only happened to me a couple of times, but I did indeed pump. Usually, though, when she sleeps that long she wakes up HUNGRY so she eats and we're all set. We ecologically breastfed for so long our demand/supply relationship was very in sync.
3. Still going strong at 7 months. Plan to go as long as she wants.
4. No formula for us
5. We didn't get serious until a couple of days ago (6 months 3 weeks). And I guess we're still not all that serious now... just playing with flavors and textures
i only experienced really sore nipples with one of my babies (out of 5) - it lasted about a week. It seemed worse on one side then the other, so I'd "baby" that side and use the other while that one healed - and I used that Lanisoh cream.
I was always so dang tired to get up and pump to relieve any pressure - so I just "toughed" it out until the baby was ready to nurse and relieve the pain. Hot washcloths helped a little - but kind of a pain if you're actually trying to get some sleep. If they're really sore, try a pain reliever. Also - wear a bra to bed, and avoid sleeping on side or tummy where extra pressure can be added to them.
was different with every baby - any where from 6 months to 12/13 months.....
added formula as I needed....depending on when that was with each one. My second wouldn't have anything to do with formula, so she went from BM to WM after a little over a year.
solid foods...anywhere from 3 months on...depending once again on when each child was ready. My oldest, however, was about 8 weeks before we did cereal, he's also the one that was done nursing the earliest.
Good luck! If you're having problems at all - don't give up - hang in there, the bonding and the nutritional value of it all is way worth a few "bad" and "painful" days.
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day?
For me, yes. It was two weeks after my first one. Then it didn't take as long with each of my following children.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
I pump, yes.
3. How long did you breastfeed?
With my oldest son I nursed for a year. With my middle little I nursed for 6 weeks, went back to work and found out I was pregnant again not too horribly long after that.
With Lily I'm still nursing, though I have rejoined the work force. It's hard, and a lot of pumping, but if I can keep the supply up I will try to go for a full year.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?
Never for my oldest, 6 weeks for my middle, and I haven't for my youngest.
5. When did you introduce solid foods? With my oldest I went strictly by the books. My middle child wanted solid food from the time we brought him home. I think I started when we were maybe 4 or 5 months old. We were at a restaurant and I gave him a strawberry. He kind of rushed headfirst. We'll probably go by the books for our littlest again.
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day? Yes, they do. But typically, if you're feeling THAT much pain, you might wanna check to see if your baby is latched on correctly.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump? I used to pump to get some relief.
3. How long did you breastfeed? 3 months with my first, and just around 11 months with my second. My second did BF quite awhile beyond that, but definitely not for nutritional purposes.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula? With my first, we switched to formula when I got pregnant and my milk dried up. I say that I BF for 3 months, but it was a couple of months longer that I did a half/half mix.
5. When did you introduce solid foods? 6/7 months, I think.
I must have had a not great latch for my first and second because both times I had cracked and bleeding nipples at first. It took about a month to get calloused up.
My babies never slept through the night until 9 months so I didn't have to worry about engorgement.
I breast fed the first until 8 months, second one is almost 11 months and still nursing.
The first one I didn't put on formula until he weaned, the second one has gone through one sample sized can of formula his whole life (only when I didn't have something pumped for him).
I introduced solids at 4 months for both kids because they were interested. Started off with rice cereal and slowly added carrots, apples (all mashed), etc. until they could self feed finger foods without choking.
Yeah they do I guess, but cant remember when that happened.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
You could pump a little just to relieve the pain, if you pumped more than that then you'd have to keep pumping every night... just bit by bit to reduce production.
3. How long did you breastfeed?
I couldnt breastfeed directly and used to pump, and I did this for 14 months
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?I had to at the beginning, my milk was late and it was impossible to directly breastfeed, and then I did again when my milk production went down during my hubby's appendectomy and all the stress from that messed me up.
5. When did you introduce solid foods?We started with rice cereal when he was 4 months old and actual baby food when he was about 6 months
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day?
They never really hurt, just had a few days of tenderness. Good latch is important
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
After my son slept through the night, I pumped before bed and got up a little early to pump again it seemed to help.
3. How long did you breastfeed?
We breastfed for one year
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?
We never supplemented just transitioned to whole milk
5. When did you introduce solid foods?
Solid foods were around 7 or 8 months
GOOD LUCK!!! Call your local la leche community if you need a lactation consultant!!! Enjoy the bonding.
1. I didn't have too much soreness, but around three weeks my daughter "cluster" fed, and I got a bit sore then. I used Lansinoh nipple cream and that helped a lot.
2. I didn't start pumping until about 4 weeks, just to establish a good supply. So if I didn't become engorged (which didn't happen that often) I manually expressed to get a little relief. And hot wash clothes also helped. But I never really had to go that long before she woke up!
After about 4 weeks, I would pump after every time she nursed. Though I wouldn't get much, I froze it for when I returned to work.
3. I breast fed for 8 months. She kind of weaned herself.
4. After I stopped BF, I used my frozen supply and supplemented with formula.
5. I started cereal and baby food at 4 months. I mixed the cereal with my frozen BM.
Our hospital offered a lactation consultant. I called her several times. But she was tremendously helpful. Even the nurses in the hospital were helpful in showing me the different positions to help alleviate the soreness, and just offer encouragement and support.
1. If it hurts, you need to have the latch checked! It shouldn't hurt (with the exclusion of a breast infection or clogged duct, but there are other symptoms of those.) I've never been sore.
2. If you are engorged, only pump enough to relieve the pressure. Pumping WILL encourage your body to make more milk so if you can stand it, it is best to not do anything because your supply will increase/decrease depending on how much or how little your child nurses or you pump.
3. It's ideal to let a child self-wean. I've been nursing my child for almost seven months and I plan on letting him nurse as long as he wants, even if that means he's still nursing some at three or four years old. It's accepted in America to wean a child sometime between 6 weeks and 6 months even though the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends at the very least a year and the World Health Organization recommends at least two years. (The worldwide average age for a child to wean is 4 years and 8 months.) I wrote an article about the benefits of extended breastfeeding. I did a lot of research about the topic and compiled it with extra references.
4. I have NEVER supplemented with store bought formula and I never will. I did have supply issues when my son was three months...I had almost no milk. I continued to nurse him (to bring my supply back) and he was on a diet of raw goat's milk and a homemade formula. He was still able to get SOME milk from me and he did fine while we worked to bring my supply back.
5. We introduced solids (fruit and veggie purees) at about 5 months. Dr. Sears has a great article about how to tell if your baby is ready to start solids or not. My son is almost seven months and I let him try pretty much whatever, he gets three regular meals of homemade fruit and veggie purees and I nurse on demand the rest of the time.
yes i got soreness in my nipples during the first 3 month of the feeding and after that it came out normal and i usefully used to pump my breast. i breast feeded for nearly 2 years to my son but all said it is really feeded much to my son. i introduced slid foods only when my son was 2 and half year old.
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it sure did, getting hooked up every 3 hours for 15 minutes at a time, I pretty much hated it but wanted to offer my son the best, what can you say the sacrifices of motherhood, I quit when I did cuz my son was getting jealous of the machine and pumping early in the morning or after he slept just didnt produce enough so I quit.
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day? They will stop being sore once your hormones regulate themselves. If it has been more than 3 weeks make sure the latch is correct.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump? Your milk will regulate itself. If you pump, you will only keep making that amount of milk so if you aren't going to store and freeze the milk or you aren't having a supply problem don't pump and you will stop getting engorged when your body gets the signal that you are making too much milk.
3. How long did you breastfeed? I am self weaning my son. He is still nursing on occasion. He is 27 months old.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula? He got formula for the first 2 days of his life because he was in the NICU. After that he only had breastmilk first through a feeding tube, then a bottle. I would never use formula unless I couldn't breastfeed for medical reasons.I pump and store milk.
5. When did you introduce solid foods? It's different for different babies. My little guy let me know he was ready for solid foods when he was around 4 months old. His cousin who was about the same age couldn't handle it until he was around 9 months old. I made most of John's baby food because he wouldn't eat the store bought kind. A food processor and a coffee grinder (to grind oatmeal and rice to the texture that the boxed baby kind is) helped with that.
1. Do your nipples build up toughness and stop being sore one day?
When I first started breastfeeding, my daughter did not know how to latch on properly which caused me to have extremely sore nipples and at one point they became so sore and cracked, they started to bleed. It was extremely painful and whenever she was hungry, which felt as if she was always hungry, I would cry while breastfeeding her because it hurt so bad. I tried alternating different positions and about a month into it, I was finally able to find a comfortable position and she learned how to latch on. Using Lansinoh can also help with sore or cracked nipples. It's a helpful ointment and it's safe for the newborn.
2. How do you deal with engorgement if your baby sleeps through the night? Do you pump?
I only started to pump once I felt that my daughter was ready to be introduced to regular formula. I would do half breast milk and half formula. But if I was engorged while she was sleeping, I'd let the milk run freely and put up with the sore breasts. But this was rarely since my daughter always ate often.
3. How long did you breastfeed?
I breastfed for over 2 months. I had to go back to school and work and was not able to breastfeed. I still continued to breast pump but gave it up altogether when she turned four months.
4. At what point, if any, did you supplement with formula?
I started about 1 1/2 months after she was born. I was going to be returning back to school shortly so I decided to start transitioning her from breast milk to formula. I would do half and half of each until I finally just started giving her regular formula.
5. When did you introduce solid foods?
I introduced her to solid food around 5 or 6 months. The doctors recommend that parents should only give their babies one type of food at a time and slowly introduce them to different kinds as they get a bit older. If you give them 3 different types of food at the same time and they develop a food allergy, it would be difficult to know which type of food caused it.
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