Koh Sin,

A word of caution, please make sure your LO drinks more milk, especially based on your description, she is lazy to drink milk. This laziness symptom is exactly the SAME as my LO and he is being diagnosed for jaundice. The senior nurse termed it as 'penyakit malas', malas to wake up, malas to drink milk and malas to move around. My Lo sleeps 5-6 hours without milk, when he wakes up, he drinks a bit and we thought he is being a good baby as well. If you detect the slightest tint of yellow on his face and his eyes, please consult your paed.

My LO was under phototherapy for a day, and I had to wake him up every 2 hours to breastfeed him. The breastmilk will flush out the bilirubin in his body. It was a tough process, especially for first time mummy, so I hope you don't need to go through it. Good luck!

This post has been edited by periwater: Jan 5 2013, 03:51 PM

Thx for the warning! Her lazy time is over d, now wake up every 3 hours looking for food...so i think should be fine...now i squeeze out my colostrum n let her lick, den finish both sides n top up with FM...

you need to let her suckle your breast to stimulate milk production....

She suck for 5 sec den panic d...so now i hand squeezed out my milk n give to her...i think my milk coming in...cuz can feel engorgement at both side...guess my hand not effective enuff...each sessioni can only managed to get 20ml with 2 hours squeezing...

Then u probably need to massage your own breast more often.Hope it works

Ya....tq...i just searched YouTube n found some video quite effective on hand squeezing.

I heard its better to do natural breast feed compared to giving milk powder because of the natural nutrients that are in the mothers milk. Did anyone read about this topic before?

Any1 looking Medela breast pump ?

can look here
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2657503&hl=

I also having difficulty to latch my lo during the first week...problem is my nipple damn sore and I barely can tahan the pain....I stop letting her to suck on my nipple...so no choice I feed my lo with FM on third and fourth day...but at the same time I keep pumping for the milk for one week...after that only I dare to try again to latch her on...

Don't worry on the milk...it only comes in after one week...and only the milk totally turns to white color...before this is much yellowish...

If your lo have jaundice...bath with Guinness stout...of coz mix with the warm water...one big bottle can divide to 3 times..it works for me.

To increase milk production..try get the fenugreek capsules from GNC.

Very informative.

I hv given up let her latch on, i just squeeze out n bottle feed her....she has been bottle fed since day 1, my MIL managed to bring in bottle n FM ...so she totally refuse my breast..but nevermind, pumping out oso ok as long as she gets my BM...

But sadly, still hv to mix with FM cuz my supply very low due to lack of rest....

my paed against using guinness stout to bath my baby because he says that the stout will be absorbed into baby's skin and make baby abit drunk....

My MIL said my LO got a bit yellow, she asked us to do some sun bath for her. N she bought a Chinese herb to bath her but she said the herb will make her even yellow... i oso dun know wat to do but as long as her eyes still appear white den i guess i wont bring her c doc gua...

When my baby was born, the jaundice level was 121.
5-6 days later, I notice my baby is kinda yellow and starts to get worry and since I had an appointment with my paed , then we did another round of Jaundice test and was 157. Paed said no need to do anything except put baby in morning sun light or shaded afternoon light.
True enough, 2 weeks later, the baby skin is back to normal

Actually doc never mentioned bout jaundice to me at all when v were still at hospital.. is after v back for few days den MIL mentioned to hubby on it...so i guess boh much prob gua.

My hospital request my baby to go through Jaundice test on his 3rd day and 1+ week later.
Anyway, if suspect Jaundice, better do a checkup on Jaundice level to avoid any headache in the future

me & my wife expose baby to morning sun light and shaded afternoon light, and bath baby using TYT herbal bath

my baby did not have jaundice when born, it was after gone home, on day 5, she started to have jaundice....so heart ache seeing her being poke on the feet to test on jaundice....(we noticed that she was a bit yellow so send her to hospital, but dr says it is normal, just need to feed more milk and let her poo more often)

Dun know y suddenly my supply drop to almost zero compare with before...before was around 1oz every session... maybe i should eat more to boost my supply?

u can try Fenugreek if u haven't. My wife gave it a go among other "milk increasing products" and now she has enough milk supply for baby and the occasional pumping.

Also drink more water.

Hmm...i tried it before but found no difference n has stopped for 4 or 5 days....maybe i should try it again starting today...

Aunty coming to visit soon? That's the leading cause of sudden supply drop.