Hi all
Sorry in advance for long post!
My little girl (almost 4 weeks) possibly has silent reflux. Although her symptoms aren't severe obviously I want to help ease her as much as poss.
My girl was feeding for hours at a time the last few days (for comfort as well) and I suspect was causing herself MORE pain as she wasn't able to digest properly. My health visitor said it can help babies with reflux if you feed from one breast for 2 feeds and then the other for the next 2 feeds, etc, so they're getting more of the hind milk. She explainsed it as 3 courses - soup, meat and veg, chocolate cake - if you keep doing short feeds from each breast all she is getting is soup. Made sense! Anyone have any experience with this?
My only problem with this is my breasts are becoming engorged one at a time and if I express after she feeds surely I'm then expressing out the hind milk?!
I have also given her a dummy - yes I firmly fell into the 'dummies are awful' group but it has helped her settle tremendously and I can see how much better it makes her feel. My question is will I miss genuine hunger cues or will she definitely let me know?! Currently just making sure she doesn't go for longer than 3 hours.
Thanks for reading x
