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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your caregiver is two OZ short?  [b]Most babies drink 1-1.5 oz an hour[/b].  So if you are not feeding 7:30-5:30 you need 10-15 oz and you're producing 16.  That should be enough.  A working mom should pump 3 times over 9 hours away.  With me working from home, I'm pumping twice and feeding the baby directly once.

The only thing I would suggest doing different is switching sides at 7:30.  If you feed for 10 minutes, do 5 on each side. If you're still 2 oz short then drink a ton of water, do a TON of breast massage (I basically squeeze it out like an orange the entire pump session) and check your flange size.   [/quote]

False.  This is baby-starving, lactivist BS.  I think the original advice was intended for short periods away from the mother.  To advise it for a full day of daycare is unbelievably irresponsible.  This type of nonsense is why I hate breastfeeding advocates.[/quote]

lolol do you even have kids?  give me a source that says 1-1.5 of oz during the daytime is "starvation".  MOST babies at 4-5 months drink 25-30 oz a day.

https://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/milkcalc/
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First of all, nowhere in that link does it say you should limit a baby's intake of milk at daycare to 1-1.5 oz of milk per hour.  And yes, I have a 15 month old that I am currently weaning, who drank 20 oz during about 9 hours of daycare when she was 5-6 months old.  I'm sure you think I was letting her caregivers overfeed her, but when you actually take the time to read the very same link you sent and consider she was mostly sleeping through the night you'll realize she 100% did need those 20 oz.

That article is actually not terrible except where it fearmongers about bottles at the end.  According to the AAP, responsive feeding with bottles or breast is always best.  Babies are excellent self-regulators, so if they are demanding milk, you should feed them. Bottles do not cause babies to overfeed no matter how many times the KellyMom crazies say it.  For the love of your baby, listen to the daycare teachers when the say your baby needs more milk.  I can't believe people actually need to be told this.

One of my biggest regrets as a mom is spending even a minute worrying that I was overfeeding my baby because she didn't follow the absurd 1-1.5 oz per hour rule not realizing it was invented by lactivists to get babies to drink less from the bottle and more from the breast.  They don't seem to realize that starving hungry babies because of a ridiculous obsession with breastfeeding is not only stupid, but cruel.[/quote]

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