hello
I'm a new mum to baby boy of nearly 5 weeks old and I have been exclusively breast feeding him. It's gone well in terms of him latching on well and putting on weight, but he rarely goes more than 2-3 hours between feeds. The last week or so, have been very challenging at night. He will end up in a cycle of feeding, nappy, feeding, nappy which can go on for hours and hours. It actually went for nearly 5 hours last weekend and I was in a right state.
So I've now got my pump and have no problem expressing but I wanted to know how this is meant to work so that perhaps I can get a little rest and my DH can do a night feed here and there. Friends have said that when they were expressing they would need to pump around same time baby was due a feed cos otherwise they would be uncomfortable. I don't really understand this though as surely this defeats the object of why you want to express in first place?
Please help - tired and confused and not much time to go online and find info out!
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Rootatoot · 31/08/2011 16:19
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