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.

well done!

am so pleased for you LTH... finally something positive and heartwarming for you out of what must have been such a tough pregnancy for you

oooh fab!!! How does Master Topham-Hatt IV like the stuff (or does he just guzzle it down without a by-your-leave??)

Mioau, he guzzles done both formula and EBM...he's not fussed at all

Have you tried holding him at the breast?
No pressure,just to see if he roots?

oooooooooooh what a little star

No, that sounds wrong...he is fussed, he loves his grub.

As long as it's warm he'll drink either, he's a hungry little man

I have MD but it just doesn't happen.....

Tried putting a bit of milk on the old nips???

Just think Em, even if you never manage to express another drop, for the rest of your life you are going to be able to say to yourself "I did it!"

(((((((((((((((((((warm fuzzy feelings))))))))))))

This is such a lovely thread - it gives me a warm tingly feeling every time I see it in active convos

Well done Emma - and well done TEIV

How bizarre - why did I just write Emma[puzzled emotion] I meant LTH of course

And LTHIV of course too!

Ahhhh - I think I must have just been reading another thread where tired emma had just posted!

Time for bed i think

well, it is my name soapy

Bad night with the ittle man, uppretty much all night with him screaming so couldn't express any.
Boobs resemble 2 footballs this morning.

being milked as i type.....

As someone earlier in the thread suggested, you will get more milk faster by expressing on one breast until the milk flow slows, then switch to the other side. When the milk flow slows again switch back. Keep doing that till your breasts feel softer or until you have had enough! Remember to catch the drip milk in the breast shell and switch that too. It amazing sometimes how much milk you can collect that way too. Another tip is to massage your breast from your armpit down to the nipple before you start expressing. That encourages the milk to flow. An easy way to do that is to make a fist with your right hand. Put the end of your fist against your right breast (thumb and curled forefinger) and just roll your fist down towards the nipple. Work your way round your whole breast like that. Do the same on the other side. You should find that you get more milk out by doing that.

Well done for being so clever

OH yes, I used to get loads of drip milk collecting in the breast shell.

the LLL lady isn't coming tomorrow now.
i called and said the expressing is going well but its not coming fast enough just yet for ds4 to latch and get his feed. the next meeting is in 2.5 weeks so by then i hope the supply will be better so i'll try and go to the meeting and sort it out there.

also in 2.5 weeks ihope to be in a tiny bit of a routine so fingers crossed i'll have expressed milk by the pint. Ill keep trying to latch him on in the mean time but if it doesn't work than...hey-ho he's still getting it.

btw, is it normal to get differnt amiounts from each boob. 0.5 from one and 1.5 from the other just now....

LTH - i can only get milk from one side if ds is feeding from the other, and even then it's only max2oz. Sitting here with pump on and only getting a couple of drops out!

sorry, just read previous posts and realise this doesn't help you at all...

I wonder if Assoc. for Breastfeeding Mothers could help?
They may have a b/f counsellor in vicinity who could call in or at very least help you out in more detail in the phone.

0870 401 7711

Lady - do you have any friends who have bf ? just wondering because the person who helped me to get ds latched on the 4th day after birth was a family friend

just thought you may have a friend with experience who might pay you a visit to see if baby will latch ?

also how about baby cafe or hospital drop in session ? do you have any of these nearby, they may be able to help before LLL arrives.

LTH,line is run by breast feeding counsellors who can talk you through things.
MN is great but it can't actually speak to you.
They may have someone nearby who can come out to you.
It's so lovely when someone who understands the score can actually be with you.
I am eternally greatful to my lovely lovely MW (and b/f counsellow who was at my house on an early Sunday morning within 30 mins of me calling,rubbing sleep out of her eyes,hair on end and still recovering from having taken a gaggle of small girls to a Spice Girls concert.

Bless her heart.

I'm glad you're happy with how the expressing is going, LTH

I'm surprised the MW (was it the MW?) suggested not latching him on until the milk is flowing faster as I would have thought htis would help to improve flow/supply. OK, he wouldn't get a full feed and you'd have to top him up afterwards but I thought it would help (if, of course you want to go down that route rather than purely expressing). I would definintely try to get a BFing counsellor to come and help you now rather than later. If I were close I'd come doen and help even though I'm not an expert by any means

Has tiktok been around recently??

yes, tiktok was last seen on another thread today (re. infamous article in feminist online jounral) !

I know BF in the best option, that it saves alot of faffing about, and I would like to do it. If someone could gauarantee without a doubt it will work I'd do it BUT you all know how much of a worrier I am. You've all had 9 months of my witterings and worries so expressing it shows me what I'm getting and so shows me how much he's drinking.

I absolutley know without a doubt that I;d worry about him not getting enough.

Again, i know his feeding woould increase it so make sure he was getting enough but I'd still worry.

I was born to worry.