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1. February Y on July 26th, 2010 | 10:58 pm

   

   My baby is now 3 1/2 months old. I wasn’t able to breastfeed much when she was born due to complications and supplemented from day 3 and therefore she had no problem with gaining back her weight.

   However, when I was able to breastfeed more after day 6, my baby also kept falling asleep at the breast and I had to keep supplementing and meanwhile I was worried my milk supply would decrease due to lack of stimulation. Unfortunately, my baby’s laziness did not go away until when she was older and developed a stronger suck to access a fast flow of milk to keep her awake. That happened at about 2 months of age. After that, I was able to decrease supplementing. You’ll see that your baby takes less and less supplement after your breastfeeding sessions. Now my baby is 95% breastfed.

   Between 0 and 2 months, to overcome the lack of stimulation from my baby (b/c she slept at the breast) and to maintain milk supply, I did the following: 1) I breastfed for 20 minutes each breast, while tickling her all the time to TRY to keep her suckling at least a few times minute. 2) When she was not suckling even with the tickling, I put her down and often she would wake up when she was no longer comfortably in my arms. Let her cry out a few minutes to get alert and put back to the breast again. 3) After feeding both breasts, I supplemented to make her full. 4) Because my baby was full from the supplement each time, she only needed to be fed every 3-4 hours. But the breasts should be stimulated every 2 hours to maintain and build up supply. I divided the day into 2-hour periods (e.g. 6 to 8 o’clock, 8 to 10, 10 to 12.) I made sure in every 2-hour period there was either a feeding or a pumping session. At night, I fed or pumped every 3-4 hours. 5) For 2 feedings a day, I made my baby feed 20 minutes per side, then if she still was hungry, I did not supplement, but instead, I put her to the breast to suckle to calm her. If she was still hungry after 1 hour of doing that, then I supplemented. 6) Once I noticed her sucking more forcefully at around age 2 months, I breastfed her every 2-3 hours and still supplemented her by offering her the bottle after the breastfeeding sessions. But I noticed she was takin less and less of the bottle, eventually until she refused to take the supplement most of the time! What a smile that brought to my face!

   Feeding tube did not work for me to keep her awake.

   Even now my baby still appears sleeping lots of times, but she would keep sucking softly. The passive sucking takes long time, therefore, my breastfeeding sessions last a long time, like 40-50 minutes. But my hands are really tired of tickling her, and I rather just sit there and do nothing and let her suckle for that long.

2. Tiger Tina on July 26th, 2010 | 10:58 pm

   

   Every baby loses som weight in the first week or so.
   My daughter who is now 6 months weighed in at 6lb 5oz when she was born and lost 5 oz in a week.
   She was a lazy baby when feeding, i couldn’t breast feed unfrotunately coz i was so big and she was tiny, just 1 boob would cover her entire face. i had to put her a bottle perminently.
   I would have to wake her to finish her feed, i found winding half way through a feed helped. Obviously your doc, or health visitor will keep a close eye on her. if she’s health and feeding 15 mins to a breast i wouldn’t worry.
   Some babies are like that.

3. Matt and Danielle S on July 26th, 2010 | 10:58 pm

   

   This same thing happened to me, my daughter lost quite a bit I cant remember how much and then the week check-up she hasnt put nothing back on, I was breastfeeding and she would do the same thing she would just fall asleep. I had to keep pumping and feeding her she was a lazy drinker my nurse said, so I had to keep like aggrivating her to keep her awake like i would tickle the bottom of her foot, even undress her and that would waker her up, even if you have to keep doing these things it will help. Maybe pump some into bottles and store it so then you can keep your milk flow good. Dont worry to much about the weight, every baby is different and gain weight slower or faster then others, my daughter was born at 10pds,13oz and gained slowly she is now 1 and only weighs 21pds but is 33inches long she is very mobile started walking at 8 months, so dont stress to much, as long as she dont look dehydrated and has wet diapers she is fine.

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