https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 15 May 2026 04:04:34 +0000 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:38:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.10 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=43767 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856793&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856793 Author: nani123
Subject: 43767
Posted: 19 December 2013 at 9:38pm

Try plunket, I went to their family centre in north shore (sure they should have something similar in other places as well) and you stay there for the morning/afternoon and the nurses/lactation consultant will help you with each feed. They also help you to get baby to nap etc so it is a casual day where you just focus on feeding your baby. I went two times and it really helped a lot.]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:38:59 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856793&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856793 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856701&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856701 Author: Nic03
Subject: 43767
Posted: 17 December 2013 at 11:08pm

Hi there,

I exclusively pumped for the first 11 weeks with my little girl. I couldn't get her to latch, and I had very flat nipples. - I didn't like using the breast shields. At about 9 weeks, she kind of worked out what she needed to do. I think it was because I was more relaxed to be honest and she was a little more coordinated. I started with one breast feed a day and continued to express.

I just made sure we had lots of skin to skin time and made sure she wasn't to hungry

Good luck xx
]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:08:41 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856701&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856701 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856700&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856700 Author: Christina135349
Subject: 43767
Posted: 17 December 2013 at 10:15pm

Hi everyone I need some help. Little one has been exclusively drinking pumped breast milk for 5 weeks. Baby sometimes drinks from a nipple shield but he doesn't like it very much. I have also tried to put him on my breast but my nipples are a little flat (use to be inverted 5 weeks ago!) and he doesn't open his mouth wife enough or stay on. But for a minute on and off he will suck. I don't have milk supply issues though I wonder if the let down is too full on for him.

My lactation consultant told me to get him to suck on my nipple shield for 15-20 mins each feed but I found doing it made his feed almost an hour long and with the need to pump as well took me almost 2 hours to do one feeding. By then I had to feed again or had to feed earlier and pumping was missed out. My milk went down as I tried this for a few days. To be honest I was too tired to continue doing it and went back to just pumping and feeding.

Now that I have a better handle on motherhood I wanted to do try again but I don't want to go through weening off a nipple shield. If rather go from bottle fed exclusively to breast fed exclusively.

Anyone know how best to do this or if there's a way to do this?

I'm dying to get this sorted as I have to return my rented pump next week. I originally was going to stop breast milk and go straight to formulae when this happened. But I really want to give it another go. I'd love to breastfeed if I could for as long as possible I no longer want to go to formula.

Please help!]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:15:32 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43767&PID=5856700&title=excl-pumping-wanting-to-excl-breastfeed-help-plz#5856700