My baby is 46d old. Her feeding time is quite irregular. At night, she can sleep a lot, say 4-5 hours and does not wake up. Even after 5 hours, she may suck only 10 mins and sleep again. During daytime, I feed her every 1.5-2 hours for 15-20 mins. From 6:00 pm onwards, she sucks every hour till I sleep around 11:00 pm. Should I train her to follow a regular feeding timetable?
She wakes up easily. Whenever I put her in the crib, she wakes up and look for my nipples. I wonder if she treats my nipple as pacifier. Now, she needs to sleep side by side with me at night and refuses to sleep in the crib. I always worry about my milk supply as her body weight has not grown well. She gained only 435g in the first month. In the past 10 days, she gained 190g. I try to pump out milk and have only 30-40 ml when my breast is very hard. If I have fed my baby, I express less than 10ml on that side. I wonder if my baby have enough milk.
By the way, my milk is still watery, always not white color, though I have taken many meat and rice. For liquid, I drink plenty of water and soup. And because I sleep with my baby now, I should have enough rest. So don't know what goes wrong. I will be back to work in mid March. Not sure if I can still BF as I don't have any inventory for expressed breast milk.
so far, 你diet ok, BB都食得ok!! BB又有重, 真係冇問題喎! 你"炎"BB重得少係wrong concept, 唔好用奶粉BB Bottle fed Baby個 growth chart 比你個BB, WHO (世衛 )已發表, 原用英國paediatrician 寫嘅growth chart, 係based on bottle fed (formula)嘅BB, 對 Breast fed BB唔公平. 令好多父母以為BB under weight 繼而放棄餵人奶. 新嘅 growth chart (for breast feeding baby)已出, 可以向香港衛生處查詢
你係咪全職嘅乳牛媽媽? 係就一啲問題都冇.. 繼續 skin to skin.
BB suck 咗5分鐘之後停, 因為個breast 要等上奶, that's why! 你可以feed BB 另一邊.. 令之前一邊有時間上奶.
我第一胎時, 係餵 right 5 min, left 5 min, back to right 7 min and left 7 min, if Amanda still needs, then I will go back to right side once more time.
因為第一胎, 個乳房彈性大, 儲唔多奶, 但after 我用 國際母乳組織個"餵奶法".. 之後出奶就出得好好.. 但要時間實行..
今胎(第二胎)就可以有大啲嘅residue, 因為個乳房冇咗彈性, 儲多啲奶咯!
你放心喇, BB夠食, 冇剩都係好事啊!
唔駛不停谷奶喇.. 咪好易有乳腺炎啊
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from now on, you should start bottle feed your baby with the expressed breast milk, instead of skin to skin, otherwise, how you can make sure, your infant will able to feed by bottle??
As I have said to another mom, do not use the scale of growth chart which only suit for the formula fed baby. As the health department of Hong Kong to get the latest growth chart for breast feeding baby.
Did you take enough calories everyday? Suppose, your breast milk should look like the diary milk, very watery but with slight white colour on it.
Try to add "beans" to your diet, black beans with chicken rice 黑荳鷄飯, white bean+peanut+ dried squit+chicken feet soup "微"荳花生章魚鷄腳湯(章魚, 荳,果仁-->上奶一流), papaya+fish soup 生木瓜魚湯, fish stomach soup花膠湯
每日每餐4両肉, 3份蔬菜, 2份水果, 3個小食, 3餐飯, at least 12 beverages 水, 鮮揸果汁+ 菜汁, 湯, 牛/荳奶
you need to pump BF every 3 hours, therefore, you will have regular milk supply.
also, your baby may be very sleepy from 6pm, but she can't get to deep sleep mode, therefore, asking for your nipple to make herself comfort.
As your infant is over 1 month, to offer the pacifier, that is fine! But remember, it will take time for her to wear off when she growth up. It will change the structure of the teeth. you need to be aware of it.
Also, to offer the pacifier --> only because of comfort. Never used it because you want to keep your infant quiet. Baby's crying because she needs to tell you something. Infant won't cry without reason. So, make sure that she is alright, just because she needs some comfort, then you can offer the pacifier.
After you offer the pacifier at evening time, see if she will stop sucking your nipple every hour. if not, then we will need to do something about it.
Nillie
thanks so much x yr caring and advice. may be i'm too stress on the weight gain of bb, so i put the pressure on both of us. esp when my bb can only takes 2.5oz formula mostly now. (near i mon.) and he takes 1oz formula after breastfed.because of it, i'm keen to give him formula in order to speed up his weight gain. i really don't know there is the 'new' growth chart, i'll check it.
i'd tried to pump the milk on morning(4hrs not feed), only 1.5oz. is it too little x bb ? thanks.