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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be honest, nursing my baby who was born at 32 weeks has been a huge challenge. He's almost 3 months old now and I'm mostly pumping and feeding him by bottle. Babies born before 34 weeks generally leave the NICU with instructions to fortify breastmilk to help them catch up on their growth. My pediatrician told us we should be doing this until he's a year old, most likely. So even if I could get him to nurse for sustained periods of time, I'd still have to give him bottles of pumped milk with Neosure added. It's hard. Then again, I saw other moms have success with nursing in the NICU and make the transition to full time breastfeeding relatively quickly. I think ultimately it's a crapshoot. Good luck with your babes! You got this. [/quote]

Wow I actually almost completely forgot about this! PP here with the 34 weeker, it was transition, she nursed really well but I was pumping so we could fortify, however her weight gain was so good that we were able to gradually decrease to only 1 bottle a day of pumped fortified milk pretty quickly and think we entirely stopped by 6 months, but I had gone back to work then anyway and was pumping / supply decreasing already by then. [/quote]

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