Monday, May 26, 2008

Breastfeeding Victory!

I haven't blog about this but I have had some breastfeeding problems with Ian. The main problem been the unproper latching making me really sore. I had to pump for the first weeks and give him my milk in a blottle. I went to Baby R us and bought all of the bottles that proclaim to be breast- like and some other that are BPA free. I tried them all except for the Dr. Browns and the Avent. I ended up falling in love with Nuby it was the only bottle I tried that had the right flow (all other bottles seemed to make Ian shoke on the milk), and it is BPA Free and the nipple is somewhat flat allowing some similarity with the breast plus it was the ONLY BOTTLE THAT DIDN'T DRIP.

I had always have tons of milk so pumping is a must or I will get mastitis, the problems is I was having to pump for everyfeeding (every 3 hours) and the pumping overstimulated my milk production, I was exahusted! So a couple of weeks ago I started really putting Ian at the breast, he still hurt me but it was more bearable. His sucking has gotten better and I think my nipples are getting used to him as well.

The good news is that the last two days he had only fed on my breast, I am down to only 2 pumping sessions a day and today his dad offered him a juicy bottle of milk and he did not go for it. He did not even opened his mouth!

This makes me sooo happy, I can finally sleep through the night while getting out of bed since I don't have to pump every 3 hours or feed the baby with the bottle. I am so happy we are finally getting the breastfeeding down, as this has increased the attachment between each other as well. I am glad I did not give up and kept trying to make the breasfeeding work.

No había hablado de esto pero he tenido unos problemitas dándole de mamar a Ian. El como que cerraba la boca en lugar de abrirla y succionaba su labio superior causándome mucho dolor al amamantar. Tuve que sacarme leche y dársela en el chupón para darle oportunidad a mis pesones de sanar, lo malo es que me tenía que sacar leche cada 3 horas y esto aumentó mi producción. En las últimas dos semanas empecé a ponerlo al pecho y también darle chupón. El empezó a agarrar el pecho mejor y también creo que mis pesones se acostumbraron. Tengo dos días de darle solo pecho y hoy rechazó el chupón lo cual me dice que prefiere el pecho. Estoy super feliz porque la producción de leche me ha bajado y por fin puedo dormir en la noche sin tener que levantarme de la cama para sacarme leche y darle chupón. Los dos nos vamos a dormir juntitos y solo me levanto para cambiarlo una o dos veces. MORALEJA: No hay que darse porvencido cuando hay problemas de dar el pecho hay que seguir intentándolo y tarde o temprano el bebé aprende y las cosas se normalizan. Me alegro de que no me di por vencida.

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