Hi,
I am b/f my 8 weeks old son and all of a sudden he changed from being a sleepy baby to be more awake and from me having to wake him every 3 hours to feed him, to him asking to be fed every 1.5 - 2 hrs, and only eating for 8 minutes.
I was told today that he might be topping up and being hungry as he would only be getting to the foremilk. This might be the case as he is also suffering a lot from colicy behaviour and gas/wind.
My question is; I thought about expressing the foremilk off until I get him back on routine (feeding every three hours) but am not sure how much to express and how quick fore milk returns in the breast (i.e. if I would feed at the last fed breast to finish the fmilk or if I wait three hours is the breast filled up with f/milk again?)
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Infant feeding
fore milk, hind milk - how much and how quick?
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Jasmer · 14/01/2003 21:24
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