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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also had a preemie! Use the NICU staff - they’re great.

Also, the lactation people were really big on pumping every three hours around the clock, but some nights I just…couldn’t. I skipped the occasional pump when he was in the nicu to get a glorious 6-hour stretch of sleep, and that made me feel quite human. [/quote]

This is great advice - once your milk is all the way in, you can drop one of the middle of the night pumps. And then adjust further depending on your supply.

My only other advice is to NOT overfill the milk freezer storage bags. Learned that lesson the hard way.

And I know it doesn’t work for many people, but I had great success transitioning preemies from bottle to breast. I would only put baby to breast once a week in the early days - didn’t want to push/force something that physically wasn’t possible for them (plus then I had a better sense of their true intake). My babies (33 weekers) started nursing for one feeding per day around six weeks and fully transitioned to nursing by eight weeks. Good luck![/quote]

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