#mombassadorchat Happy World Breastfeeding Week! Please share your breastfeeding stories and tips! Hi everyone! @kimberlyyyy_the-preemie-mom here. For today's chat we're going to talk about breastfeeding and pumping in honor of World Breastfeeding Week! Both can seem complicated or stressful, but remember you have lots of support here! With my first son I had things going against us for breastfeeding. I wish I knew back when he was younger that we could have still tried! With my second son I was determined to breastfeed, and even though he was born 11 weeks early I wasn't going to let that stop us from trying to breastfeed! For 7 weeks I pumped every 2 1/2-3 hours on the dot to establish and maintain my milk supply. When your little one is born early they usually need time to master sucking, swallowing, and breathing so I wasn't able to nurse right away. When my son was 33 weeks gestational (so 4 weeks old) we were finally able to latch on, and he did great! By 36 weeks gestational we had successfully started breastfeeding, and today marks 21 months of actual at-breast breastfeeding for us! I am passionate in trying to help moms-to-be and moms with breastfeeding and/or pumping, but I support moms who choose not to or for other reasons cannot breastfeed. Remember, I mentioned I didn't breastfeed my first son. I understand both sides. Breastfeeding isn't always easy, but I believe it's at least worth trying! Please help me celebrate World Breastfeeding Week by sharing your tips, questions, concerns, product recommendations, or anything else breastfeeding and pumping related! If you have a question for @kimberlyyyy_the-preemie-mom, please tag her in the comments below! Or share your advice and feeding stories.
Breastfeeding moms out there I'm going to be a first time mom and really want to just breastfeed my daughter I'm leaking already but what other things could I take or drink to make more milk when I have my daughter? thank you for the help .
Breastfeeding moms: so I am planning on going on a 3 day vacation with my hubby & a bunch of friends to Catalina in May, (my baby won't be going with us) and I do not wanna be pumping and dumping every 2 hours out there.. so if I don't pump or breastfeed for 3-4 days, will my milk supply drop significantly? 😩😩 & I don't know how I'm gonna deal with the engorgement pain if I can't find time to pump out there.
Breastfeeding question Do I absolutely need a pump? I am planning to exclusively breastfeed. Since I stay at home I was just wondering if I absolutely need a pump. I don't wanna buy one and bottles if I don't have to.
So, I'm a first time mom, and i plan on exclusively breastfeeding my daughter. I will be a stay at home mom so I will always be available to her. Mommies like me, when exclusively breastfeeding are there still times when you need to pump? I'm not sure how that works. I guess I just don't have a great understanding of breastfeeding yet. I have 2 classes scheduled and a support group I plan to attend, but, if you wouldn't mind sharing your breastfeeding knowledge in my comments I'd love to start learning? what does your baby's feeding schedule look like? does it include pumping? when you do pump does your baby take that Milk from a bottle? educate me ladies... i want to be a breastfeeding expert.
Alba Acevedo ·
Мама четверых детей
I'm also a sahm and honestly I didn't really use my electric pump I jus use the manual pump. Usually in the mornings when I'm full from baby sleeping through the night. Ur insurance provides u with a free pump u shud call them n f8nd out.
Rish·
Мама дочки (1 год), беременна (28 нед.)
@ashleydunn, Thank you. I do plan on having him checked for ties as well, just really hoping he won't have issues latching like his sister. :)