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lizzle 
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 2:59pm |
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hey, has anyone heard this before? My friend who had twins - his wife was determined to breastfeed but getting really exhausted at nights. i sugeested her expressing and letting hubby do the nights and she said that her midwife had said you shouldn't express until after 6 weeks? anyone else heard this? they have my breastpump and the instructinos are all japanese so that won't help at all.
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cuppatea
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 3:15pm |
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Sounds like twaddle to me. I expressed at the hospital cos they wanted to top him up to try and help with his jaundice. I expressed at home on day 6 as well when I had a really sore nipple to give that side a rest and it didn't do any harm. Apparently if you express full time your milk supply can drop off, but I also think that is bull. I expressed full time for 5 weeks and then when I stopped I had real difficulty getting rid of my milk.
The only thing I have heard is not to introduce a bottle till breastfeeding is established, I also think that is bull. Spencer had a bottle on day 6 and he would happily flick between boob and bottle, I only ended up expressing full time in an effort to fully empty my boobs to try and stop from getting mastitis again, not cos of latching problems.
At my coffee group there are two babies that had bottles early and they are the only two that will now take a bottle everyone else has had trouble when they tried to introduce around the 2 month mark.
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LizzyJ
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 3:20pm |
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The reason they say that is they want the brest feeding to be well established before they introduce the teat, thus minimising confusion to the baby. Its about what works for the individual though and it you have the energy to percivare with duel feeding methods early you will most probably appreciate it later.
Kinda what cuppatea said above.
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kebakat
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 3:23pm |
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Sounds like crap. I expressed from day 5 because my boobs were just too full.. it helps bring your milk in if you do it regularly .. DH started giving Daniel a night bottle at about 3 weeks once Daniel was a perfect feeder on the boob.
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 3:45pm |
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Thats what they told me in hospital so I spent just over a week and feeding via a 20ml syringe and my finger. . Looong process
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 4:26pm |
thats a load of crap i expressed from 8 days old 
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 4:54pm |
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it might just be a guideline... and more to do with the fact that it can take that long for your body to sort out the supply and demand of breastfeeding and expressing MAY interfere with that...
Thats my theory as to why anyone would say that anyway!
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lizzle
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 5:12pm |
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i think it is a terrible thing to say to the parents of twins! I mean surely they should be saying "whatever works for you luv" - which is what I said.
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 5:21pm |
 lizzle wrote:
i think it is a terrible thing to say to the parents of twins! I mean surely they should be saying "whatever works for you luv" - which is what I said. |
Damn right
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 7:50pm |
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My midwife came to visit on day 5, saw I wasn't coping and ordered an electric pump from the hospital and I started the gremlins on EBM at 6 days. They still took to the breast fine as I alternated between the two, and I definitely had no supply issues!
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 8:17pm |
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It's probably to do with the teat, I can see no harm in expressing before 6 weeks. Crikey!
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 8:42pm |
I started expressing on day 1  But my situation was probably a little different 
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 9:06pm |
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lol Kelly i was just going to say we get our NNU mums expressing as soon as, and many mums of twins find it helps increase their supply *if* they do it after each feed as they get the extra stimulation of that so their milk supply comes up to where it should be, not just what the baby can stimulate.
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Maya
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Posted: 05 November 2007 at 9:18pm |
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I encouraged my friend who just had the baby to start expressing today coz her baby is a bit jaundiced and is sleepy and not sucking well enough to bring her milk in on his own.
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Posted: 06 November 2007 at 3:01am |
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Its a mix of getting the supply/demand established and not giving baby nipple confusion. If you introduce a bottle too early some babies will refuse the breast as it is easier for them to drink from a bottle. Also it takes a while to balance out your milk supply with what baby needs- if you start expressing during the day and then skipping a feed at night (because you're sleeping when hubby gives the EBM) it can mess up your supply. It takes some peoples bodies some time to balance what baby needs and when. 6 weeks is a guideline to get everything absolutely working well before introducing expressing.
Obviously some people have no problems expressing before this- I expressed with Charlotte and think it added hugely to the numerous problems I had in those first few weeks. I waited until Kate was 6 weeks and it worked brilliantly.
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Posted: 06 November 2007 at 12:36pm |
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I was told this but I think its for full term normal birth weight babies and I was told because it will take longer for your milk to settle down. The midwife said it will cause engorgement because you are telling your boobs to make more milk or not enough milk for bubs at the next feed because you expressed it all.
Also since expressing doesn't stimulate the breast as much it won't bring the milk in like breastfeeding will. In saying that tho I think giving her a rest would probably be worth it.
What an amazing woman to breastfeed twins
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