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| how often did people pump? in between feedings or after feedings? |
Anonymous
| My daughter was born at 37 weeks on the dot. She was fully cooked: weighed 8 pounds and 4 ounces and was 21 and a half inches long--so I'm glad I didn't go longer! No significant breastfeeding issues. It took a few days for us both to get the hang of it, and my milk didn't fully come in for about five days. But these were pretty minor bumps in the road. She wasn't exceptionally sleepy; indeed her first night home she screamed the whole time, likely due to my milk not having really come in yet. |
Anonymous
| 36 weeks 4 days and no problems! Healthy and BFing went really well. |
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My first was born at 36 weeks. No initial issues, 7 lbs, 6 oz. But he didn't feed well, slept alot the first 24-48 hours, and developed jaundice. Lost over a pound in first 4 days, had to get anIVs go under blue lights, in pediatric ward for 2 days since we had already been discharged from L&D.
I later learned that babies that are early full term tend not to feed as well, so you have to feed them every two hours or else they'll just sleep instead of feeding and loose weight. Good luck! |
Anonymous
| DS was born at 37 weeks exactly. Very fast labor, bigger than his sister born at 39 weeks. A little delayed on the early milestones, but doctor said to add three weeks to the guidelines, and he was well within that. By the time milestones guidelines were given by months (as opposed to weeks), there was no difference. |
Anonymous
| My second was born at 37 weeks and a few days. She was perfectly healthy, and we had no feeding issues. |
Anonymous
| 36 weeks, 6 days. Was fine, but lost over a pound in the hospital and we had 2 extra days there for jaundice before learning about the home blankets. Used the blanket at home for another 2 days and that was it! |
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NP - DC was born at exactly 36 weeks via c-section and was 5 lbs 15 oz. He was "discharged" the next day but we stayed at the hospital for 5 days (had issues due to prior surgeries). Anyway, my milk came in on day 2 in the afternoon. BF for 2 months and DC weaned himself, even refused the pumped breast milk in the bottle! He would spit it out (critic!). Found out from the pediatrician that my hormones could be changing and the taste was different to him. Sure enough, following week my period returned  .
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Anonymous
| Sorry, forgot to add that he is 2 yrs old, tall for his age and maybe a bit advanced (don't have anyone to compare to). But a lot of people tend to think he is 3 yrs old because of the height and speech. |
Anonymous
| My eldest was born at 37 weeks exactly. We had no problems with breastfeeding - or anything else really. She did have jaundice, but all of my kids did, and her case was the mildest of the 3. No delays of any kind, and she's now a bright, happy, only-moderately-aggravating teenager. |
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| thanks! |
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Mine was born exactly at 37 weeks and aged full term but small (5/12); no lung trouble although he did get jaundice that didn't fully go away until 3 months (we took him in for treatment under the lights but never supplemented with formula; our pediatrician was fine to just wait for it to clear with breastfeeding once the bilirubin levels were holding at 15). I didn't have trouble nursing, but he definitely was sleepy: I let him sleep on the boob and we held him or had him sleep in the bed with us (in a cosleeper). Our midwives recommended kangaroo care and we used the Moby a lot; this was to help get his system regulated.
I have read (and been told) that it's contact with the baby that will bring the milk in and increase the supply, and that pumping will not up supply. The smell and sound and feeling of the baby stimulates your hormones to shift into nursing mode rather than pregnancy mode, so I would recommend planning to hold him/her as much as possible in the first two weeks. We also were told to not let him sleep longer than two hours and to put him to the breast any time he was awake just to see if he wanted it; he didn't decline to nurse when offered until he was over 2 months old! With that approach my milk came in quickly and the baby doubled his weight in two months, going from the 4th percentile to the 50th. |
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Op, don't stress too much about BF'ing and pumping...the lactation specialist and nurses at the hosptial can really help you with the logistics. I also found kellymom.com really good as a resource and spent a ton of time reading on there after DS was born.
To answer the question: I started pumping at 2 weeks, twice a day at 10am and 10pm (1 hour after DS had nursed; 1-2 hours before he would nurse again). My milk came in right away though...BF is such a personal and unique experience...there is just no way to predict what your body will do- sort of like labor! |
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#1 came at 37w1d. She was 8lb2oz and very robust, nursed immediately, no troubles. My milk didn't come in noticeably (to me, at least) until the 5th day but she didn't lose much weight (weighed 7lb11oz on day 5).
I did notice that she did some things a little later than 40week+ babies, but no developmental problems at all. |
Anonymous
Just wanted to add a differing opinion to this post - my first came at 34 weeks and was in the NICU for three weeks and unable to nurse (had a feeding tube in her nose as she was too small/weak/early to suck and breathe at the same time). We physically couldn't hold her all that much or that often, as she was kept in her incubator a lot of the time to regulate her temp. I pumped and pumped and pumped my brains out - and had an absolutely enormous supply. So I'd weigh in on "the pumping increases your supply" argument to say, oh yeah, it sure does. I'm sure that physical contact doesn't hurt - it probably helps! - but pumping will do it too. |