OMG...... For the first time in my life of a mother I've just been able to express breast milk......but I've been taking ibrupofen though....DS4 can't have it can he??

[LadyTophamHatt]

I'm happy and gutted all at the same time.

Did you try my expressing tips at all? Did it work?

It is very normal to get more out of one breast than the other - my left was a lot less than the right. That's one of the reasons it is better to keep switching as the milk flow slows instead of sitting pumping continuously on one side for 10-15mins.

here is a useful site with video clips

mears, I did the switching back anf forth thing which worked perfectly.

have been massaging boob while attched to machine which is helping too. it's a bit tricking because norks are so vast and as i massage it the edge of the funnel digs right in.

Of course you'd worry. But if you weren't worrying about whether he was getting enough, you'd only worry about something else

I always had a niggling oubt as to whether any of mine were getting enough but their fatness and contentedness (OK, just fatness with BabyDragon!) reassured me.

No one can ever guarantee something will work though, I just thought it was more likely to work the sooner it was tried. Expressing seems to be going well and this thread still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling

Thought you might like to know Ds4 just finished a whooping 4oz EBM feed .....

well done lth

Gosh you are doing really well. It is lovely to almost 'hear' your delight

4OZS off already very envious only managed to get 1 to 2 when my ds was newborn lol seriously though your doing really well

my "record" was 7oz...I used baby pictures of dd1/dd2 (when I was at work) as "baby porn" to get the milk to flow..

Wow, just seen this, LTH - a massive 'well done' to you!

bubdle - lol re. baby porn - you can get arrested for that you know ?

bundle i meant !