Is anyone else exhausted ?
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I never pumped but I stayed at home with baby and still at home with my son, let him cuddle and touch breasts alot and he always gets milk, not alot but enough We started business together mummy and baby duo, currently trying to get that going back on tik tok. Your baby will maintain supply if on breast often 🙂✨ your supply won't mess up don't worry
If you don’t feel like it’s working for you, just try to bottle feed your baby
@Kirsten with just breastfeeding how do you know your baby is getting enough. I have this fear for some reasons he is nots when I breastfeed he never seems to sleep more than 1 hour vs bottle feeding he still rest 2 hours. When I bf he will latch on frequently. Is this normal? Will it get better when he gets older ? I bf him all morning and early afternoon. I pump only to help after I get overwhelmed with bf all day, it’s a lot for me to have baby there 24/7 I can’t even eat. I pump 2-3 oz and baby takes when bottle feeding about 3-4 oz so not sure if that’s the issue
Cluster feeding is so normal and how baby increases your supply. So long as baby is having plenty of wet nappies, that's how you know baby is getting enough.
I would say drop the pumping and just breastfeed, it makes life much easier. Pumping storing milk etc is effort and I think it’s not needed if you just breastfeed on demand anyway. Babies are much better at extracting milk from you than a pump and they’re better at draining you.
Also at the beginning you want to get the correct latch so breastfeeding is better, pumping can lead to oversupply of milk. I only breastfed little man is now 6 months and he’s doing fine
Also at the beginning I also felt like I spent my entire day just breastfeeding. It is normal Trust me
I’m about to have my second baby . I struggled with my first with how you’re feeling . My plan this time is to pump in the day and feed at night . Getting a very good pump a cool bag for when we are out and just trying to stick to that routine . With my first I pumped breastfed and sometimes used formula so did it all it was chaotic . You do feed loads at the beginning as you have to keep your supply up
So many babies have jaundice in the beginning and have successful BF journeys without pumping. I'd slow down on the pumping, you might have an oversupply. Latch baby as often as they want, for as long as you want. Remove the pumping from your day and you'll feel so much better.