07-24-2007, 10:51 AM
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 Nursing Difficulties
Hi there,
Hoping I can get some advice on what to do. I have a 8 month old son and have been nursing him since his birth. I went back to work around 4 months and started pumping. It worked out fine. I am a teacher so I can only pump when the kids go to recess, maybe for around 8 minutes 3 times day, but it was enough and things were going great. Along comes summer and my pumping schedule has been thrown off, I am not always home at the times I used to pump. It seems as though I just don't have as much milk as before. I will nurse him off one breast and pump on the other and get maybe 1.5 oz this is after 5 hours. Last night I got up at 3:00 AM to pump thinking I would get a lot of milk it had been since 9:30 since I had last nurse him, I only got 2,5 oz. off both breasts. My questions: is my milk drying out?, do I need to nurse, pump more often? Are there certain foods I need to eat to help my milk production? I start teaching in a month and I would like to be able to freeze a little but at this rate I can't. I really don't want to use formula. Any advice?
Thanks, Liz  |