Posted by
Perthites
20 yrs ago
I am looking for any mums who have or are express breastfeeding only. My bubs is nearly 6mths (6 calandar mths)and i will then be starting her on solids so i was after advice on how you expressed for milk used in food (did you use express out a small amount for each meal? if you did it this way did it effect your supply, did you set some aside from each bottle feed?)
How soon after you started solids did you bubs drop a feed? And when this happened how did you drop an expressing session?.
My bubs currently drinks 240mls 4 times a day,
i pump at 8am, 1pm, 6pm, 10pm,3am I try to pump every 5hrs except for the 10pm as i go to bed around 10.30pm I usuall pump between 200-240mls. I can some times freeze 1-2 feeds every couple of days.
PLEASE share any experiences in fulltime EBF. Thanks
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Catnip i remember you said you EBF can you help me. hkchoichoi you said your sister inlaw als EBF can you offer me any advice from her experriences?
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Hi Perthites -
I had to check in with her. She told me that she had stored enough - so that by month 11, she could stop EBF and just express twice a day - once in the morning and once in the evening and that was enough.
With the milk mixed with foods, she said she just used some of the fresh breast milk in the AM and used it to mix with the food products. (The fresh milk -around 6 oz could be mixed with different things she was preparing.)
From my own experience, I didn't drop any feed until the end of 9 months (feed at 2:30, post nap - and then she had dinner at 5:00) and then at the end of 10 months, I dropped the lunch time feed, and then at the end of 11 months I had dropped the AM feed. Her 12 and 13 months, Emily had only breast milk her last feed of the evening.
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tks hkchoichoi do you know how many feeds your sister inlaw was giving her bubs at 11mths before she dropped. Gosh i have been freezing but i'm not sure i have enough to last long i'll have to count.
With your feeds how many did were you doing before you went to two at the end of 9mths?
I got my book yesterday Super Baby Foods but as i wanted to start on the 7th Aug it doesn't give me much time to read it so i'm skimming thru but did you decided which day next mth you were goijg to start i'm still interested in communiccating with you about it. I sent you a PM last week or so did you get it?
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At nine months, I was still doing 7:00 AM feed, 11:00 Feed, (baby not taking solids at this time) 6:30 feed.
Then at the end of 10 months, once she started taking food at that feed I had dropped to two feeds. Morning and night.
I got your PM - sorry - in the US right now so my schedule is a bit hectic. I'll get back to you as soon as I get back - but I sent you the excel file, right? The superbaby foods one - just start with that. Steam and puree and freeze the things that you want to start with. For an easy start, and a "no cook" option, start with avocados and bananas. Don't be shocked if your baby's poop has black "worms" in it after bananas. A lot of moms mistaken it as something seriously wrong but it's just banana fibers.
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