Hi.
I'm currently expressing three times a day to increase supply - giving this ebm top up at next feed (advised to do so by HV as five week old baby not gaining very much weight).
Query is: at night, baby doesn't feed much (wakes up twice, feeds for about half an hour) day time feeds can go on for over an hour and are about every 2 hours - along with non stop cluster feeds in evening. when i express first thing, i can get quite a lot (for me) say 2.5 oz's, but when i express at lunchtime and tea time i get pathetic amounts.
i'm assuming i can yield a lot in the morning cos there's a build up of milk as she hasn't fed much during the night - but going on the logic of the more you express/baby feeds the more you make argument, i would have thought i could express bigger amounts during the day as she feeds so frequenty. any thoughts???
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lindso · 30/08/2007 10:22
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