I need help again, PLEASE!

December 11, 2000

Avery is 14 weeks old. She 'will' take a bottle when I have to work, but she

doesn't really like it.

Question #1- Shouldn't she be taking more than 4 oz every 4 hours by now?

Question #2- Having BAD supply problems again. Taking Fenugreek, but it doesn't

seem as effective this time around. I feel SO full when I get home at night

after work, I pump, I get about 5-6 oz total, both sides. (I have the Avent

ISIS) Shouldn't it be more than that? I am having trouble getting her 3-4oz

bottles for while I work. There is NONE in the freezer now. I cannot take time

off.... UGH... I DON'T want to give up. She has never had a drop of formula & I

don't want to give it to her. We're thinking about renting a hospital grade

pump. $35 a month will be MUCH cheaper than that **** formula. Should I just

supplement & forget about it? The past few nights she has been getting up about

5 times to eat. Maybe she's teething, but I'm SO afraid it's because she's not

getting enuff. I'm not even leaking too much anymore. I'm afraid that I'm drying

up. Do I just give up now ? I absolutely have to work right now.

~ S. <><

Mommy of (7), Connor(5), Evan(2), and

announcing Miss Avery 8/30/00 ~*Our Miracle*~

December 11, 2000

NO you do have to give up....

It sounds like she is reverse cycling her nursing. She eats just enough

during the day to sustain herself, and then nurses like mad at night when

you are home. She prefers mom!

Is she gaining well? Peeing? Pooping? Hitting the developmental stages that

she should be hitting? Smiling? Are there other reasons that you doubt your

supply? Not leaking really doesn't mean anything. Some moms never leak, some

do it the whole time they are nursing, be it a few days or a few years.

Are you able to pump while you are at work?

Jenn

-----Original Message-----

From: Sipe

Avery is 14 weeks old. She 'will' take a bottle when I have to work, but she

doesn't really like it.

Question #1- Shouldn't she be taking more than 4 oz every 4 hours by now?

Question #2- Having BAD supply problems again. Taking Fenugreek, but it

doesn't seem as effective this time around. I feel SO full when I get home

at night after work, I pump, I get about 5-6 oz total, both sides. (I have

the Avent ISIS) Shouldn't it be more than that? I am having trouble getting

her 3-4oz bottles for while I work. There is NONE in the freezer now. I

cannot take time off.... UGH... I DON'T want to give up. She has never had a

drop of formula & I don't want to give it to her. We're thinking about

renting a hospital grade pump. $35 a month will be MUCH cheaper than that

**** formula. Should I just supplement & forget about it? The past few

nights she has been getting up about 5 times to eat. Maybe she's teething,

but I'm SO afraid it's because she's not getting enuff. I'm not even leaking

too much anymore. I'm afraid that I'm drying up. Do I just give up now ? I

absolutely have to work right now.

~ S. <><

Mommy of (7), Connor(5), Evan(2), and

announcing Miss Avery 8/30/00 ~*Our Miracle*~

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December 11, 2000

,

Get the hospital breast pump it will make a huge difference. The risks of

formula are real and supplementing is something that should be done if other

efforts aren't working. Some babies don't take much when their moms are

gone and then make up with marathon nursing when she returns. It is hard to

guage how much she is getting when she is nursing and she could easily be

making up the difference.

Wendi

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" When individuals have been born gently, welcomed kindly into the

community,

breastfed for many years, they do not become greedy people. They come

from a place of fullness and balance with all our relations. "

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