So breastfeeding is still tormenting me, but not as much as it was. I talked to a Lactation Consultant and she said that my problem could be that I don't have a lot of breast tissue, the milk producing tissue, and that could be why I'm not having an easy time of it. Seth is now starting to take even more formula at his topups, up from about 50mls at a time to anywhere up to 90mls. I'm still giving him as much boob as he will take, he just drains them and gets really fussy because he's sucking and barely any dribbles are coming out.
I'm wondering if my boobs are going to go through a growth spurt and suddenly start producing more milk (heh, wishful thinking right) but something is going on with them at the moment because about an hour after a feed my boobs start getting a bit stingy painful and it tends to just linger until the next feed. Weird, huh! It's similar to the achey feeling I would get in my boobs occasionally during my menstrual cycle.
I'm still taking my Domperidone and supplimenting my diet with other lactation promoting foods and trying to get enough protein and plain enough to eat! I'm terrible for forgetting to eat.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Hurdles
I guess there's plenty of hurdles to traverse and hoops to jump through when you're a parent and I'm just starting to stumble my way through the course but damn if I'm not stubbing my toes! Well the hurdle of sleep is overcome for now, the one I'm trying to find my way over at the moment is breastfeeding. I'm stuck on this one because I still have to top up my little darling with formula otherwise he just wont settle and I can't pump enough breastmilk to use that as a topup, hell I can only pump 20mls at the most at the moment and most topups are more like 40-50mls.
I'm also not very happy but I am relieved because I've had to make one feed completely formula, which The Man Thing gives to the munchkin while I get some sleep because before we started doing this I was on the verge of an emotional breakdown due to lack of sleep and now that we have started this (we're only on day 3) I'm much more relaxed, rested and able to cope with those hairy moments when the baby just keeps crying! I know it's not going to do my milk supply any favours but it was a case of do this or go insane. I prefer to keep what remanants of my sanity I still have so I'm ok with our decision.
I'm also not very happy but I am relieved because I've had to make one feed completely formula, which The Man Thing gives to the munchkin while I get some sleep because before we started doing this I was on the verge of an emotional breakdown due to lack of sleep and now that we have started this (we're only on day 3) I'm much more relaxed, rested and able to cope with those hairy moments when the baby just keeps crying! I know it's not going to do my milk supply any favours but it was a case of do this or go insane. I prefer to keep what remanants of my sanity I still have so I'm ok with our decision.
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