Hey

Welcome to motherhood.

1) To increase milk supply, feed on one breast and pump the other (not for too long, 10-15 mins will do, you'll get around 10-15ml of colostrum only)

2) Massage it like how you'd massage your tummy (swirl) or like how you flatten your playdoh (er. this one needs a video..)

3) Feed your baby every 1.5hr - 2hr. You'll lose sleep, you'll feel tired, you'll feel like feeding him formula so you can sleep longer. If you're really determined, you'll pull it off

4) Engorgement happens when your breasts are switching from colostrum (the yellow milk) to white milk. It's ok, keep feeding and try to take warm shower often

5) Your milk supply will turn whitish after 7 days or so. Then your breasts will not be so big but there will be a lot of milk as long as there are a lot of stimulation.

Good luck! It's not easy to breastfeed but it's gonna be worth it

No shower is a Chinese pantang ya?

As for engorgement, mine lasted for 2 days.

According to Ministry of Health Malaysia and WHO, first 6 months should be breastmilk only, no nid water.

Every baby's different but yours look fine.

Lucky you get more sleep. My baby drinks for 30 mins every 2 hours

IMHO it's very hard when the grandmother try to intervene everything that the mother's doing. We can give you advices but are u willing to go against your MIL?

nicKit,
Hows your urine colour? If it's dark yellow then you need to drink more

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Added on October 30, 2010, 4:14 pmBtw when baby breastfeed and drinks (instead of simply sucking), can hear gulp gulp gulp sound.

But some babies can become lazy may not want to breastfeed cause it takes more effort to suck from breast than from bottle. This is why bottlefeeding shouldnt be introduced so early.



This post has been edited by Syd G: Oct 30 2010, 04:14 PM

1. No

2. Boobs will get bigger.

Sorry to hear about your experience Sounds like he wasnt latching on properly. Is he still fed formula too?

Here's a really good latch on video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zln0LTkejIs

He prolly picked up bad habits from his formula bottle feeding . If still fails then the next best thing is to stop feeding on boobs directly and give him pumped breast milk in bottle instead.

Another thing that I always do with my baby is to put her on diapers only and put her on my chest for skin-to-skin contact. If she's slightly hungry then she'll crawl to the nipples and latch on herself It's called 'breast crawl'.

Here's a good video on it :



Dont give up yet

This post has been edited by Syd G: Nov 1 2010, 07:14 PM

When you feed baby glucose water n formula, pump.

Are you eating and drinking enough, sweetie?

Btw if you're too embarrassed about putting the milk in fridge, put inside a tupperware.

No wonder you're not producing milk, you're not drinking enough. I drank at least 2L of plain water a day eventho Malay pantang also says cannot.

I'd rather langgar pantang than to see my baby starve.

The pantangs were around since the days of homebirth and lack of knowledge on basic sanitation, hygiene, antibiotics and antiseptics. I dont mind following pantangs, really as long as it doesnt have any ridiculous reason behind it.

E.g cant eat/drink so much cause you'll get fat and the husband will find another wife. Srsly wtf.

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Added on November 14, 2010, 12:12 pmEasy to do once. Try doing it consistently, parenting is tiring

This post has been edited by Syd G: Nov 14 2010, 12:12 PM

It's ok. Your confinement will end soon. Hopefully you'll go back to drinking lots of water and will have a lot of milk like I do

I delivered normally without epidural. Seriously I'd rather endure the pain of delivery again than to go through the pain of confinement.

wear a nursing pad

washable ones are cheaper but they dont retain milk well. i use disposable when i'm outside and washable at night.

Actually, swaddling is actually more comforting to a baby. Google up Dr Harvey Karp and his 'fourth trimester' theory in his book 'Happiest Baby on the Block'.

Cheers.

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Added on November 18, 2010, 6:10 amhttp://www.ninemonths.com.au/fourth-trimester/

This post has been edited by Syd G: Nov 18 2010, 06:10 AM

I'm so sorry, nicKit . I have the privilege of doing it to my own daughter.

At first I had to be so 'kurang ajar' to not listen to others' opinion on how to raise my own child. But right now she's very calm so people whom noticed actually asked me for advices

Btw my baby often sleeps after breastfeeding too. Not too long, though. She'll wake up after 15-30 mins unless it's at night.

nicKit,
Do you burp your baby?

OK that's why your baby feeds every half an hour. He wasnt drinking much in 1 session.

The pattern I do with my daughter is :

Feed -> she'll stop feeding -> I'll burp her -> she'll continue feeding -> she'll stop feeding -> I'll burp her -> I'll give her boobies till she doesnt want anymore and fall to sleep.

Repeat again after 3 hours.

How I burp her - works everytime :




Hope that helps

I'd say 95% of the time

@redchili
I love your story. Keep up the good work

Are you drinking enough water? Like 2-3L a day? Because before bb comes we're all asked to drink 2L of water anyway - a lot of people are drinking not even close to that.