Expressers of the world unit.........moral support thread.

[LadyTophamHatt]

So, How many ounces do you get per day??

I've produced enough for one 5oz feed. Pretty poor really.....

Still no luck with latching DS4 on, kind of given up with that now TBH.

I now seem to spend half my day plugged in to the milking machine, counting the drips as the trickle down the tube.
There really aren't enough hours in the day for me ATM!!

OMG those little feeding cups!! [arrrrgh!]
We were advised they were the best way to feed the baby, whilst keeping its tongue in the correct position to breastfeed.
They were soo tricky to use, and how heartbreaking when all that ebm is soaking into the bib at the end of the feed.
My little boy was so jaudiced that we had to practically tip the cup down his throat, he would keep falling asleep. I remember taking off his clothes to keep him awake, when he was too warm.

i managed to express 3.5 oz on saturday which meant we could leave ds with MIL and go down the pub for an hour! not that he actually needed a feed while we were out - he slept through the whole thing!!

it's still very hard work - ds is just so much more efficient at getting it out than the pump!!

Sterny the trouble is with DS that he won't take a full feed, just 5 minutes or so even though he's hungry and I know he's got milk from me because I can see it dribbling down his chin. But hey, he did it again this afternoon and I won't stop offering. Well done on the decision to drop the morning express. It must be a leap of faith but you know that your DS is thriving on what he has the rest of the time, so not knowing how much he has for one feed will make no difference I am sure.

CallieNewMum I use the Ameda Lactaline, which is a double pump, costs about £80 and has been fantastic. I think it is excellent value for money and it's small enough to take with me if I am going somewhere for the day/weekend. Best of luck with BF.

Macneil - would you recommend that DVD by Clare Byam Cook? Do you know how much it costs/where to buy it? (Blimey, considering BF is supposed to be free, I seem to have spent an awful lot of money trying to work out how to do it..)

Shonaspurtle - well done you!

Nine

The DVD made me feel a lot better about everything, despite in absolutely no way making me better at breastfeeding, although I did start yearning for her to come around in her pastel clothes and stick my baby on my tit, like she does with the women in the video. A lot of it, if not all of it you know already. But a few things, like how to line up the baby so his mouth is directly next to the nipple, I didn't know, and she taught me a new way of burping the baby (this is going to make me look an idiot, but I always did on the shoulder and got covered in puke and now I do it her way, with the baby just sitting up straight, with me looking at it in profile) and she's just very nice and relaxed and says that no one would say to a blind person 'oh, you must be doing it wrong because my eyes work fine' and things like that.

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