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[Anonymous]

I’m pumping because Bryce has a feeding tube and doesn’t nurse, but I’m only pumping twice a day – once in the morning and once before bed. It’s working fine for me.

[hellbennt]

nak (nursing at the keyboard,lol)

i go back to work & that is my plan

2x a day

ari will be 13 months when i return

i was at 2x a day w/ jonah at 12 months- he really only drank water during the day bcse he didn’t like milk- he would maybe sip an ounce or 2 but he was a good eater and got calcium from yogurt & dairy products,etc

now w/ ari I have to go back to work and I plan on nursing him 2x a day- morning & night but realistically with this guy, I foresee nursing him when I pick him up from daycare, at night in the middle of the night () and in the morning

[Anonymous]

i can answer this one from experience! i had to go to work full time when daisy jane was 6 weeks old. i nursed her part time very successfully. i did pump at work, but i only pumped during my lunch break—–and i don’t even remember if i did that for the whole year. i nursed her in the mornings and in the evenings and during the night when she woke up. this was back in the days when a plunger style pump was the GOOD pump!LOL! your milk supply should adjust to the amount of nursing that you choose to do. however, you could possibly be a little uncomfortable during the adjustment period. you might want to do some “tapering off” pumping during the day at first to make yourself more comfortable. i nursed daisy jane until she was 12 1/2 months old and took her off the bottle at 15 months.

[Anonymous]

Sorry I don’t have any advice… I tried to do it part-time with Sarah, and it worked for a few months until she eventually “fired me” and went for the easy way out.

Laura is a really good resource for BF, so maybe she can help.

Good luck with your return to work. I hope that things go well.

[Anonymous]

I can’t say from personal experience, but when I was a nanny I worked for moms who only nursed twice a day and they were able to do that for many months.

Good luck with your return to work!

[Anonymous]

I am returning to work on Thursday and am considering part time breastfeeding. I don’t want to pump at work if I don’t have to. If that’s the case, I’ll probably just switch to formula all together. I am on the road and in court for hours at a time and it’s just not realistic. However, If I can nurse once or twice a day, that would be great. Will my milk supply keep up if I just feed early am and before bed? I thought some of you supplementing moms might know b/c their LO’s diets are not solely bm. Any thoughts??

[Anonymous]

Hailey is probably the “sleep feeder” and “feeding aversion” baby that you’re talking about… thankfully we don’t have many around the site anymore!

Christine described the two pretty well.

Hailey had early feeding signs that things were not going well that were associated with initial breastfeeding kinks, low milk supply, and overactive let down (we were told so many different things depending on who was doing the talking.) We were told it was that on top of colic. The transition was very gradual but she became increasingly harder to feed until she completely stopped eating outright at 8 weeks. The doc was talking about tube feeding, but we noticed that we were able to feed her a little bit but with difficulty when she was asleep (hence the term sleep feeding). For Hailey it was still a struggle, but this was the only way we were able to feed her during most of her first year.

This was because of her feeding aversion- meaning that she had formed a dislike of eating/fear of eating. She learned that eating hurt, and so when most babies learn that nursing/bottle feeding is comfortable, Hailey learned that it causes her pain, and so rather then feel pain, they don’t want to eat. They learn that eating is not pleasurable. Reflux is just one cause of feeding aversions. Others are developmental problems that make eating difficult, sensory issues that make eating unpleasant, prematurity or inability to co-ordinate suck-swallow-breathe. There are many causes, but basically it’s a learned thing that happens because the normal learning process about eating (ie. I’m hungry, I eat, I feel good) is interrupted (i.e. I’m hungry, I eat, I hurt, I don’t want to eat). Some babies are only averse to liquids others, like Hailey, to solids and liquids. HTH.

s&h’s mum2007-5-20 14:41:10

[Anonymous]

Sleep feeder – a baby who will only take a bottle or nurse when asleep or sleepy. My son did this for a while before he was on the right dose of Prevacid.

Feeding Aversion – the baby has learned to associate eating with pain due to untreated or under treated reflux. There are probably varying degrees of feeding aversion. My son developed a “mild” feeding aversion, but only towards the bottle. He gave up the bottle at 7 months of age but thankfully continued to take breast milk and solids from a spoon. Some babies develop an aversion to any kinds of feeds; bottle/breast/spoon and have to be tube fed.

[Anonymous]

Hi Claire,

Like the others said, many doctors use the term “barium swallow” interchangeably to describe either a “modified barium swallow” which is what Heather described and an “upper GI”. Neither test is intended as a diagnostic test for reflux, but sometimes the person conducting the test will see that reflux is occuring as an incidental note during the procedure.

The modified barium swallow is usually done by a speech-language pathologist, basically the way that Heather described. In really young babies they often just mix the barium into a bottle of formula and have you bottle feed as you normally would (if you use a bottle). The test is intended to indentify swallowing problems or feeding problems (such as delayed bolus formation and aspiration of liquids into the lungs).

The upper GI is intended to diagnose any structural malformations along the GI tract. They strap the baby to a table and then have them drink a barium solution from a bottle while they take pictures as the solution moves through the GI tract. Hailey had this done and did pretty well… she already had a feeding aversion at that point and hated breast-feeding (or bottle feeding) but sucked back the barium from a special syringe like it was the best thing she’d ever tasted.

After the test, they usually have a really strange poopy diaper until the barium is out of their system, and it can also cause constipation.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

It’s possible that they are also just talking about an upper GI. That’s what Kaelyn had, but several people at the hospital referred to it as a barium swallow.

It can take 2 weeks for milk proteins to clear your system, but I would think that you would have started to see some improvement by now. Have you thought about cutting anything else out of your diet? I ask because I cut milk and soy while breastfeeding Kaelyn, but it never occurred to me to cut wheat which turned out to be a major allergen for her.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. Bensmama- Thanks for the compliment about my name That made me smile. My name drove me nuts for years because I couldn’t shorten it into a nickname when ALL my friends at school had nicknames. Wow, what problems I had back then, huh? Anyway, Kate definately has been feeding for longer periods of time since I started one side per feed which is great. She still fusses a couple of feeds a day and despite watching her and the clock like a hawk to see some sort of pattern,(big sigh), there isn’t any. Sometimes it’s just fussing because the milk is coming to fast, sometimes it’s arching, kicking, and whimpering. Rarely any screaming…sometimes. Now her poop is still just a stain in the diaper and I don’t know what to do. She’s still wetting diapers and you wouldn’t necessarily think anything was amiss except she does sometimes grunt in pain when she poops. ARRRRRG!!! I don’t know! I’ve cut out ALL dairy and soy, I don’t know what else it could be. No new foods. Could it be a sudden wheat allergy? Celiac? This poor kid. I hope she turns out to be well adjusted despite all this drama.

Claire

[Anonymous]

Last week he was 12 pounds 11 oz, he was big at birth (9lbs 11oz), but had a set back while we were breastfeeding and at 3 weeks was only 8lbs 12oz, so I am very happy with his progress since we figured out what was wrong with him (ie reflux and MSPI). I just hope he out grows the MSPI.

[Anonymous]

Claire,

From what I understand, your breasts are “less full” now because they are indeed matching your daughter’s demand. You are also probably dealing with actually breasts full of milk rather than somewhat hard breasts that are slightly engorged. Am I right? If so, this is a good thing because now your daughter will be able to stay on the breast longer without it shooting out at her, choking, etc. and she will get more of the good fatty hindmilk.

Don’t worry about drying up though. As long as you switch breasts from one feed to the next, you should be fine.

As far as fussing at one feed… is the morning one, or the first feed of the day from one of the sides? Just wondering if it’s because then your breasts are still a little over full?

p.s. love your name, by the way

Bensmama2007-5-18 14:41:47

[hellbennt]

when my babies/children are on antibiotics I always use probiotics- check the refigerated section at the healthfood market- check ingredients for milk, soy etc if you’re baby is mspi, etc

[Anonymous]

oops, boy am i tired. I meant the doctor said to always start with the right, which is the one that produces less.