Reply to Continue to EBF or Supplement?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Continue to EBF or Supplement? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Just to clarify one thing, feeding often many times doesn’t have to do with whether your milk is fatty enough - it’s usually more to do with how many milk ducts you have so how much milk you store in your breasts at a time. This is different for every woman and has nothing to do with your breast size (small breasted women can have more ducts than larger breasted and vice versa it’s not related). If you have less room to store milk, just by your genetics etc baby will often feed more often doing smaller feeds more often. If you are lucky to have more ducts sometimes baby can go longer. The good news is you get new ducts every pregnancy so second baby might not feed quite as often.

As others have said you definitely don’t need to supplement to change your babies weight or because your breastmilk is imperfect (it probably is just fine but I guess who knows!) BUT you should absolutely feel free to use some formula to help you get some rest and a break. There are absolutely no awards for martyrdom and no awards for EBF. Do what you want mama and don’t hesitate. It’s ok to prioritize your needs too.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics