In the 56 hours after coming home from the hospital with her son, Boss never slept. Missy decided to give it a try. Exclusive pumping—feeding your baby only breast milk, only from a bottle—is traditionally the territory of mothers whose babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit or otherwise medically unable to suckle directly at the breast.
These moms, like Boss, were unable to establish a successful breastfeeding relationship despite their best efforts, but they still wanted to feed their babies breast milk. The practice of pumping frequently or exclusively is continuing to grow. According to data from the latest iteration of the Infant Feeding Practices Survey , among U. What most moms may not know is that beneath the perceived convenience of pumping, there are potential consequences both for workplace norms and for the health of themselves and their infants.
Such protections include reducing the incidence of gastrointestinal illnesses, upper respiratory infections, asthma, obesity, both types of diabetes, and certain childhood cancers. Part of the problem is a lack of research.
Most papers discussed expression for sick or premature infants; the rest were commentaries calling for more research.
Boss admits that, at first, she was worried about missing out on some of the benefits that breastfeeding ensures: the bonding, the closeness, the skin-to-skin contact. Despite the need for additional research, current studies point to several problematic aspects of exclusive pumping.
The midnight nursing ritual is nothing new to Shafonne Myers, a mom of three from Fishers, Indiana. For more than a decade she has snuggled and rocked one of her three children back to sleep in a dimly lit nursery. But now with her youngest instead of hearing the cooing and suckling of a feeding baby, Myers listens to the whirr of a breast pump extracting her breast milk while the baby in her arms drinks from a bottle.
Myers is one of many new moms who is exclusively pumping her breastmilk rather than direct-nursing her baby. Her doctor suggested she would need to supplement with formula , a prospect she dreaded.
Breast milk is the ideal standard for infant nutrition, and the World Health Organization encourages exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby's life. But breastfeeding doesn't always come easy for every mom—many women find it inconvenient, painful, or even impossible for various reasons. In fact, only Veronica Haywood, R.
There are some circumstances like after radiation treatment, or breast surgery, or when taking certain medications, when women may be prevented from breastfeeding,. While exclusively pumping may sound like a great alternative, it comes with its own set of obstacles. The La Leche League International says that most lactating women will need to pump every hours to avoid feeling uncomfortable.
After you drain your breasts and no more milk is flowing out into the collection container , continue to pump for one to five minutes longer. Since breast milk is made based on supply and demand, the extra stimulation will tell your body to make more. You don't have to pump for longer than 20 minutes.
Pumping for 15 to 20 minutes more frequently throughout the day will generally produce more breast milk than pumping less often for more extended periods of time.
Pump as much as you can at each pumping session. Then, put the breast milk into bottles or storage containers in the amount that your child takes at each feeding. Newborns drink less breast milk than older children at each feeding, but they eat more often than an older child will. It's easier to overfeed your baby when you're bottle-feeding.
So be sure you're giving your child what they need every day and in each bottle, but not more than that. It can be tough to maintain a healthy milk supply when you're exclusively pumping. It requires a good deal of dedication; you have to pump regularly and, if possible, during the night. Moms who pump exclusively spend a lot of time attached to a breast pump.
So think about buying or renting a high-quality pump that is designed for long-term, daily use. A double pump will serve you well and save you time and energy since it can collect milk from both breasts at the same time.
Whichever pump you choose, be sure it's comfortable and the pump shields fit you well to prevent pain and damage to your breast tissue. If you maximize your time and comfort, you're more likely to pump regularly to maintain a healthy milk supply. Frequent pumping stimulates the production of breast milk. While your child is a newborn, try to pump every two to three hours. As your child grows, you can usually pump less often. However, if you're struggling with low milk supply, pumping more often can increase milk production.
A galactagogue is something that helps a breastfeeding mother make more breast milk. There are breastfeeding superfoods , herbs , and teas that you can add to your daily diet to support and promote lactation. When it comes to the prevention of pregnancy, exclusive pumping is not the same as exclusive breastfeeding.
The lactational amenorrhea method LAM of birth control may work during the first six months of exclusive breastfeeding, but it is not considered effective with pumping. Therefore, if you do not wish to become pregnant again right away, you and your partner should use another form of contraception.
Be sure to let your doctor know that you are exclusively pumping, though. Since some forms of birth control contain estrogen, they can cause a decrease in your milk supply.
Exclusive pumping can be time-consuming and demanding. There should be a suction setting on your pump and a speed dial. This is very important, the higher the suction does NOT mean the more milk you make. Your pump will probably have a suction setting of minimum, medium, and maximum.
I had mine set on medium when I developed a blister. Once it healed, I turned it down to minimum and have never had another blister or pain again. I keep the speed at 3 but if you feel like too much areola is being sucked into the horn, then turning down the speed will remedy that. If you are in a lot of pain and turn down the settings, you might actually get more milk because you are more relaxed!
Moms may find it surprising that the breastfed baby often takes less milk in the bottle than formula babies take in. This may vary a little from baby to baby, but the average range of milk intake is oz per day mL per day. Example : If baby usually nurses around 8 times per day, you can guess that baby might need around 3 ounces per feeding every 3 hours when mom is away. You can find a quick and easy expressed breastmilk calculator here. It is important to remember that it is very easy to overfeed a baby using bottles.
This is because the way a baby drinks from a bottle is very different than how a baby would nurse from the breast. Shaking breastmilk is also not recommended gently swirl to mix, instead. Ideally bottlefeeding the baby should mimic how a mother breastfeeds her baby. The baby should be fed on cue, or demand, and not according to a rigid schedule. Breastmilk digests in about 90 minutes, so one would expect the feedings to be anywhere from 1.
The bottle should be offered gently, in a non-stressful manner, with the baby drawing the nipple into the mouth. The type of bottle or nipple is not as important as the manner in which the bottle is offered.
Changing position mid-way through a feeding is often recommended, as is holding baby is a more upright position. Propping a bottle is also not recommended. First drink plenty of water. Check your pee when you go I know, sounds funny! If it is light yellow to clear, you are plenty hydrated. Make sure you eat! While you are pumping, you will keep the weight off, I promise!
It can make you hungry as a horse and it does that for a reason. You need the extra calories because you are burning so much off! Eventually, your hunger should taper off mine has. Eat REAL oatmeal, not the instant. You can eat the quick oats the ones that cook in 1 minute or the old fashioned oats that cook in 5 minutes. You can also make cookies that have oatmeal in them and get oatmeal that way I prefer this way! No one is sure how the oatmeal works but it does!
Get some rest yeah, I know easier said than done! If you are exhausted and have the opportunity to take a nap even if it pushes your pump back do it! You will actually get more milk that way! Conserving energy is important. This all depends on how you personally handle stress.
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