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she's now 2 weeks old :) last visit to PD's 2 days ago, she weighed 3.2kg.. daddy weighed her again this morning, 3.3kg.. 0.1kg in 2 days.. hee.. glad all the ebm (expressed breast milk) is getting into her system well.

frankly, i've been very blessed. for being able to latch her well and she's also able to take both bottle/breast/cup. never knew the depth of difficulties that existed until i hear from the other mommies in the forum. its been both convenient AND inconvenient to latch her. in the middle of the wee hours if she's been fussing, all i need to do is just shove a nip into her mouth and she'd suckle away contentedly till she gets sleepy.. but since its so warm and comfy in my embrace, she tends to sleep more rather than suckle, which meant i have to keep tickling her chin/cheeks/ears to wake her.. and the latching time can get really long.. and the other 'free' nip is happily dripping away, and i was not about to let those precious EBM (expressed breast milk) slip away, so the other hand is kept busy holding an empty bottle to contain the dripping milk. SO, she LOVES to latch.. which could also be tricky, cuz it meant that i cant be doing anything else but to sit there and let her latch! in most cases, babies prefer the bottle cuz of the faster let-down, and reject the nipple cuz of the slower flow.. for belle, its the other way round! she would bawl when the bottle was given and took abit of nudging before she would suckle on the bottle..

milk capacity and pumping

hm, so my boobies have a large capacity.. it does take longer for me to feel engorged.. and i can tahan 9 hours or more before i feel like i really need to pump. ideally i should pump every 3 hours.. but tis so hard! especially if i need to be running errands during the day. take those days where i need to visit her PD (pediatrician) or my own gynae for follow.. many hours are spent outside.. how to pump? and today, some relatives came over to visit.. and i had to miss 2 pumping sessions cuz i also went back home to sayang my cats and pick up some stuffs.. but anyways.. overall, i'm glad that my supply has been slowly increasing.. perhaps due to the nice soups mom has been cooking.. or that i TRY to pump more frequently.. or perhaps its due to fenugreek that i've been taking..

baby has been feeding so frequently and its round the clock and hubby and i can never remember when our last feed was and the quantity, so we've started recording down every single feed and end time plus the capacity she took.. i've also started a pumping schedule to track how much milk i can actually pump out in a day..

so here goes, my pumping record:

Tuesday, 16 Mar
10pm - 100ml
1am - 75ml
5.30am - 65ml

Wednesday, 17 Mar
11.30am - 80ml
9.20pm - 150ml
2.15am - 125ml

Thursday, 18 Mar
12.15pm - 100ml
4pm - 70ml
3.30am - 60ml

Friday, 19 Mar
9am - 100ml
10pm - 110ml

Saturday, 20 Mar
11.15am - 80ml
3.30pm - 95ml
6.30pm - 100ml
11pm - 90ml
2.45am - 90ml

Sunday, 21 Mar
12noon - 175ml (highest record so far)
5pm - 130ml
9pm - 130ml
1.30am - 140ml

As u can see from the records, the yield has suddenly gone up quite abit on sunday, after 5 more pumps the day before.. hopefully this pattern continues..

will pump again later around 4+am... zzz....

life of a milking cow..