I am 27 weeks pregnant and Have been doing so much research on breastfeeding and babies eating/sleeping patterns, just to prepare myself.
I intend on breastfeeding , with the exception of pumping from time to time after a few months.
There are sooo many books on breastfeeding, But i haven’t found 1 that tells you anything about bottle feeding (because even though i wish to breastfeed you never know for certain if you can) so here are a few questions:
1: How many ounces does a newborn drink??
2: When you make a bottle up and take it on an outing with you and baby, how do you warm it up?
3. how many bottles/supplies do i need to buy?
4. if i am breastfeeding and decide to pump for a bottle feeding for later, when should i pump?? and when will my milk be replenished enough for the next feeding?
PLease help i am very grateful.
When you pump your breast do you loose the same amount of weight if you were to feed directly from the breast.
My son is 5 days old and I have tried to breast feed, I know all the benefits and feel that it is a great choice, how ever we have serious complications; he wont lack on, I am too big, and he doesnt eat enough to prevent me from terrible engorment, so I have decided to exclusively pump, but I cant help but to feel terribely like a failure… I dont know where to turn for resources or info on exclusive pump feeding.. again I feel like a failure..
and on top of everything I took him to the doctor today and he has lost weight, I just feel like the worlds worst mom.. I cant even take care of my child..
Breast feeders: How often do you feed your baby? Say you pump and feed. If you pump how soon afterwards can you bf? (I’m wanting to pump in order to save milk and feed also)
Formula feeders: How much powder formula do you go through in a month? How many cans? How many ounces are in a can?
How is it supposed to sound? I am getting about an ounce and a half every 3 hours, I am pumping every three hours. I was feeding him without pumping, but he’s a preemie and he seems to be wanting to nurse for an hour, sometimes more, and then will take 1-2 oz formula after that.
My husband and I are doing natuarl family planning. So far it has worked as I did ecological breastfeeding. My son is 8 months old and my period has returned. I was just curious what are the best books out there that covers a lot of information on Natural Family Planning? I have heard of The art of natural family planning. But what ones do you reccomend?
I am just wondering when to 1. start pumping and saving and 2. start feeding from a bottle. Ideally I’d like to breast feed when I am with baby and have caregivers and my husband bottle feed breast milk.
I went to the hospital and they told me I couldnt breast feed, and when I go back, they tell me that I can because I dont have to take my medication until I want too, so Im a little upset that throughout my whole pregnancy they told me I couldnt, and 11 days after giving birth to my daughter they tell me I can, and now she wont even take to my breast, I had a cheap evenflo breast pump that was good for 5 min and took me 30 min just to get 2oz, but I heard good things about Medela, but they are so costly, and I heard alot of good things about Ameda also, so I was wondering has anyone used the Ameda? and is it worth the buy because I’m in the military and I only get 6 weeks of maternity leave, and then I go back to work, and they only give me such amount of time to pump, so I want something that will work well for that hour or so I get….
Any Suggestions?
For the last 7 months we have engaged in the same bedtime ritual without incident — bath, book, [breast for first 5 months] now bottle (with singing), bed. However, for the last four nights, my 8 month old son won’t take the bottle from me. I have always given him the bottle (because the first 5 months it was breastfeeding and we just transitioned to the bottle later). My husband was able to give it to him, but he begins to fuss right after I put the book down and pick up the bottle. I am stumped as to what is going on. Any ideas?
This question popped in my head at a group class WIC made me go to about breastfeeding and your baby’s first week. And I already knew everything they told me, and probably more than the teacher did. Because during my first pregnancy I went to the library and I read as many books as I could to prepare myself for childbirth. And these other women were just in awe of everything that the teacher was saying, even though some of them were on their fourth baby. Is it really so hard to educate yourself?
I also attribute a lot of women’s fear of labor and delivery to not being well read on the subject. When you go in the delivery room and you know exactly what’s going to happen to your body and you’re confident that you can do it, it’s a piece of cake. Having a child was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. And why shouldn’t it be, women have been doing it the same way for thousands of years.
Now is it really so hard to pick up a book and be prepared for such an important life event?
