Posted on 05/12/2022 7:59:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
This baby was underweight at birth and doctors told the mother to supplement with formula. She *is* breastfeeding the baby but needs the formula in addition to get the baby to healthy weight.
There are also mothers unable to breastfeed for various reasons, such as being on certain drugs for a medical condition. While fairly unusual, I do feel for these families. What a nightmare.
Doesn’t the left tell us men can breast feed?
I have hesitated to put my 2 cents in on this subject, for fear of starting a back and forth, but here goes because the culprit is in the very first sentence!
Her doctor sabotaged her breastfeeding success. Perhaps if he had gone to veterinary school instead of medical school, he would have not put her and her baby in this unfortunate position.
Supplementing breast milk with formula will signal the breasts to stop producing milk. To increase milk supply, a good diet, lots of fluids, nursing as often as every 2 hours will increase the milk supply quickly. There are a couple of sensitive periods of time during a baby’s growth when breast milk supply may not be enough to meet the baby’s sudden growth spurts - These are at about 6 weeks and then again at about 12 weeks.
Also at about 6 weeks, the baby is often fussy, acting as if he/she is hungry. Often this is just a developmental stage, and maybe - who knows- his nervous system is maturing, and he is becoming more wakeful, and aware of different bodily sensations. These spisodes last about 4 hours or so, varying from baby to baby.
All of my babies did this, and it took me until my fourth blessing to not panic about this.
I solved it by going to bed, nursing the baby on the “empty side”, so he wouldn’t get too much milk during the “fussy time”, comforting and soothing him, and after three or four hours, nursed her on the full breast. Then, repear the next day, until it passed. It always does. Our wise great grandmothers called this “colic”. Don’t let it sabotage your success, and formula doesn’t help with this, nor cereal, or sugar water, or anything else. I never started solid food until about 6 months.
The breast milk supply will rapidly increase to meet the baby’s new demands with the above-increased feeding schedule. It is a good time to lie around, relax, nurse baby, and watch happy stuff on TV. Usually two days is all it takes.
Offering bottles of formula will cause the milk supply to decrease, and that happens fast. Those of you who are into economics will recognize the “supply and demand” pattern here, as will the dairy farmers among us.
Mothers. this is a very special time in your life. It is so worth the effort to understand that your body and your baby know how to produce the best milk on earth for babies. It is a gift from God, and we are foolish to try to fool “mother nature”.
Don’t give up, and for those of you who started down the breast milk trying the quick fix of formula supplements, stop immediately, take to your bed, drink and eat up, and nurse as often as you can get the baby to nurse, and your milk supply will magically increase to meet all your baby’s needs. It can be done!
Anyone who wants help can post or freepmail me. I am willing to share, and will do what I can to help you.
The mothers are working. So they need to pump. But, at this point the milk may have dried up.
You sure it’s that high? There were other means of feeding.
They are working. So they’d need to pump. Their milk may have dried up.
Fifty years ago in nursing school I remembe there were recipes for homemade formula. I vaguely remember a mixture of low-fat milk and Karo Syrup. These substitutes may not be optimum, but it may help the shortage while the country waits for the foreign teat to get over its contamination.
Same here. These are artificially created childcare problems. And the formula conpanies love having these dummies on the hook.
Right. Those things on her chest aren’t there just as a place to hold her money.
How’s that vote for demented Joe Biden working out for you, Karen? Reap what you sow - good and hard. We wouldn’t be close to experiencing anything like this if the mean tweeting man was still in charge.
Nah, homemade baby formula is the new Ivermectin. The New York Times wrote an article that ‘strongly advises against’ making your own.
I feel bad for the babies, but if their parents are NPCs, unfortunately, I can’t help them.
It’s so sad and frustrating to watch the world self-destruct into a pool of helplessness, arrogance, and ignorance. And to watch children suffer due to the idiotic incompetence of their parents.
But at least I can make sure my family and loved ones are OK. Every day, this world feels more and more like The Walking Dead.
::Some women can’t produce milk or produce too little.::
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Extremely tiny minority. Pretty sure wet nurses were used only by some wealthy women who, like this female, didn’t want to properly take care of their own young.
Let them eat titty milk!
This nation is full of nothing but weak, lazy, and needy people. Maybe she should push the Democrats to give her, and the rest of her ilk 3 days leave for menstrual cramps like Spain just did. Then they can give guys a 3 day leave for testicle aches.
Yes, but no mean Tweets!
Yes, think of all the dogs that have litters... do you ever see a dog who can’t feed their pups?
It may happen, but I’ve never seen it myself.
Neither of my sons were satisfied with just formula. I also tried breastfeeding my youngest son, and rotating breastfeeding with formula to try to fill him up, but that didn't work either. Thankfully, neither son was colicky. The pediatrician told me to put them on whole milk with light Karo syrup to keep their stools soft. And both were eating rice cereal and fruit within 3 weeks of birth. They're in their 50's now.
TRY finding goat milk.
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