Reply to I’m worried my friend’s newborn isn’t getting enough food

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "I’m worried my friend’s newborn isn’t getting enough food—say something?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An EBF baby readily takes a bottle? That seems unusual. Sure you're not making this whole thing up?[/quote]

My son was ebf but would take a bottle readily in the first couple months (like when I had to go somewhere and would pump).  He only got bottle refusal around 5 months old when I went back to work (and he got over it).

Could you suggest she take the baby for a weight check?  A decent LC will do a weighted feed too.

I mostly EBF (struggled a bit in the first couple weeks) but I firmly believe fed is best.[/quote]

2/3 of mine definitely would not touch a bottle until 6 months. There's a whole thing about bottle introduction because it's a known issue. If the mother has enough breastmilk to pump then what is the issue?[/quote]

Pumping =/= nursing. A baby sometimes can't transfer milk from the breast.  This is why some women have to exclusively pump.[/quote]
Could this be what’s happening? She’s pumping quite often because she’s building up a supply before she heads back to work in two weeks. It just seems, honestly, like baby is BFing for comfort and maybe a little milk, but then waking herself up hungry again. She’s completely content after a bottle and sleeps for like two hours. [/quote]

honestly this doesn't sound like oversupply to me-- sounds like she's pumping to build up for future when she goes to work and then baby goes to eat and boob is empty and then baby is cluster feeding to try to get it back up again.  i generally only give a bottle while simaltaneously pumping at same time to make sure the supply/demand match-- if i pump more than 4 oz then i freeze the rest but i would never pump before nursing.   if baby is fussy or falling asleep at boob i'd encourage a lactation consultant- both my kids did that and the LC was key to teaching me strategies to wake them so they could get full feeds and improve the latch [/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