if you produce/express alot of milk does it dilute goodness?

[cotswolder]

Discussion with my mother, who is right?????.

I am purely expressing to feed my 14 week old and produce alot of milk, some of which I am freezing.

DD is not gaining as much weight as graphs suggest - probably about 3 onzs a week. My mother thinks this is because I am expressing too much and that in producing more milk than she is taking, that in effect the calories are diluted. She reckons that I should cut back and only express what she needs )(therefore giving her max calories), I think it makes no difference how much milk you produce, the calories would be the same.

Who is right?

No! You are right :-)

You need to look at the bigger picture with weight gain: how big are you and your OH? Is she happy? Developing? Weeing and Pooing lots?

Why are you expressing?

you are right.

I am ebf twins. some women ebf triplets. by you mum's theory my babies would have only got half the nutrition they needed, which is clearly false because they're currently sleeping with full and satisfied bellies [gr

because DD would not open her mouth or latch on despite heaven knows how many midwives at hopsital and BF consultant etc trying. Actually quite like expressing now and flexibility it gives me although starting to get fed up with it.... thinking about going mix feeding.

Apart from weight DD is fine, alert and loads of nappies. Having some sleep troubles at the moment but only in the last week or so. DH is very tall so we would have expected her to be heavier than she is as she is fairly long.

long running argument.....................

you

Thanks all and thought as much!