I always had issues BFing my children. It drives me crazy to this day! I will probably NOT have any more children, but for my minds sake, I wanted to know if there is any *medical* term to explain this. I would first nurse arround the clock and make sure I had adaquate fluids, then my babies would all drop the normal "pound" of body weight at the one week check up. I would tell the doctors about my issues with nursing and take home a hospital grade pump. suppliment with fenugreek, and then I would for two weeks or more nurse, pump, nurse, pump... I felt like a machine!! In the end, I have always had to give it up becuase my babies all lost WAY too much weight and I couldn't handle it anymore!
I have ran into ladies who have similar experiences. Sooo, I am just curious.. is there a real MEDICAL concept out there that describes this as a condition?
Any comiseration is appreciated!
2007-01-06 02:48:27 · 4 answers · asked by patchnthyme 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
OH MY GOODNESS!!
I dunno who you are! But you soo hit the nail on the head! Why did none of the lactation consultants or doctors or nurses or my midwife tell me that "tubular breasts" thing!?
I have always loathed my breast shape, and always thought I didn't have enough breast tissue or something! I want to thank you for 'solving' a long standing issue!.. Now if I can only claim that on my insurance as a legit reason for breast surgery!LOL
2007-01-06 04:35:26 · update #1
There are a few different reasons that a mom could have problems.
If you have thyroid issues, that might cause supply problems.
Did a Lactation Consultant or a La Leche League Leader ever check your baby's latch on?
Does tongue-tie run in your family? Could babies have been tongue tied?
Could you have "tubular breasts" because moms who have breasts shaped this way often have problems establishing a full supply.
Have you ever had breast surgery?
2007-01-06 03:05:25 · answer #1 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are different possibilities for what was going on. Some women, for whatever reason, do seem unable to produce suitable milk. I don't think they've decided that it's a condition, but it is there.
In terms of your own issues, it could have been medical, but it could have been stress, too much pumping, not enough of something in your diet, not enough vitamin/mineral/fat stores in your body, how the babies were nursing... The babies need to nurse long enough on one breast to get the hindmilk. This is not usually present in the first week of nursing. Also, if they are not sucking adequately, they can nurse a long time but not really get enough. The pumping may have been too physically draining on you and compounding the problem instead of letting your body do what it needed to do on its own.
Essentially, there's no real way of knowing!
2007-01-06 11:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by glurpy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if there is a medical term for what you have had. I'm 32 weeks pregnant with my 2nd daughter, 1st daughter is 2. When I had my daughter in the last 1/2 hour of labour I had 2 injections of pethidine. Naturally my daughter was very sleepy for quite some time due to the medication passing into her system. In the end I was told I had to feed her or they would give her a bottle and I did want to breast feed. She wasn't interested in feeding and it was hard to even wake her up. In the end I had nursing staff touching my nipples trying to her her to feed, I felt humiliated and the staff made me feel so stupid in front of all the other new mums. I wanted to give up then. once the medication had worn off my daughter fed fine. All the issues the medical staff had about breast is best I think is rubbish, Just look at how many people do feed there babies straight away from the bottle and they have no problems. I believe that if something isn't right or doesn't work for you then change it. If it wasn't meant to be then there won't be an alternative.
2007-01-06 10:59:11 · answer #3 · answered by SARAH S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a pretty obvious reason here- you do not need to pump your breasts until a milk supply is established- usually about 4 weeks. A better option would have been to suppliment. They make bottles for nursing infants- it's a tube that you can put into their mouth as they are latched on and you could have avoided all bottles.
If you do decide to have more children you should speak with a lactation consultant, not a doctor.
2007-01-06 10:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by iampatsajak 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋