I had to give up breastfeeding for a while. I still pump and have an okay supply of milk, but my baby won't take the breast anymore. Do you have any suggestions?
2006-12-13 09:28:00 · 5 answers · asked by Mommy...LT 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Good on you for continuing to pump!! I also had to stop brest feeding for a while when my baby was about 6 weeks old, i had sore cracked and bleeding nipples. So I began to express and feed him breast milk from a bottle. When I was all healed up O tried beastfeeding again, but he was not interested. I persisted, but ended up with cracked nipples again. so i made the decision to Exclusively Pump.He is now 6 months old, and I am still exclusively pumping, and feeding him breastmilk. I have passed my original goal of breast feeding for the first three months only, and am going to continue pumping untill he no longer needs breastmilk. Ive found that health care providers are unaware of the option to exclusively pump, so I had to do some research on the net, so I could be sucessful.
By all means, meet with a breastfeeding nurse and get some help first with breastfeeding, and if you have no luck with that, you have the option of feeding expressed breast milk!! No need to feed your bubba yucky formula!!!
See the websites:
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-ppexcluspump
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPers/
www.exclusivelypumping.com
www.artofbreastfeeding.com/pump2.html
www.meleda.com/NewFiles/faq/coll_store.html
www.breastfeed-essentials.com
www.breastfeedingonline.com
www.kangaroomothercare.com
www.ilca.org
Hope this helps, if you cant suceed at actual breastfeeding.
2006-12-13 10:06:38 · answer #1 · answered by niki 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would try keeping your baby in bed with you at night and sleeping topless. Stimulating the baby's natural reflex to nurse by stroking his/her cheek with your nipple, just like you do with a newborn might help. Not every baby will go back to nursing once they've had a bottle. It's a different way to suck (regardless of the high tech bottle, it's not the same). Getting your milk to let down before you put the baby on the breast might also help. Bottle fed babies are used to getting milk out of the nipple right away! Good luck! And good for you for trying.
2006-12-13 09:34:30 · answer #2 · answered by Laura 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots of skin to skin contact with baby.
Try when baby is almost asleep/not quite awake.
Take baby into the bathtub with you and try to nurse. (called "rebirthing")
Try offering any pumped milk/supplements with something other than a bottle (medicine dropper, spoon, oral syringe, soft cup, etc.) so that sucking needs will be met at the breast.
Try pumping prior to offering to nurse in order to get the flow of milk going so baby gets a quick reward.
Have someone stand beside/behind you and drip expressed milk onto your nipple to entice baby.
2006-12-13 09:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Keep offering the breast.
2006-12-13 09:35:08 · answer #4 · answered by ctaylor717 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try using a nipple shield, continue pumping though as nipple shields can inhibit supply.
If possible go see a lactation consultant
2006-12-13 09:33:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋