Complicated Breastfeeding or Complicating Breastfeeding?
When a baby who has been through a difficult NICU experience and is being weaned from pain medicines and is arching away from the breast and will not latch - a pump is needed.
When a newborn baby has a very, very molded head and his nose now has swollen tissues due to the deep suctioning required to remove the blood he swallowed on the way to the outside world - a pump might be needed.
When there are 35 week old twins who are sleepy - a pump is definitely needed.
When a baby is not latching and the clock is creeping towards 24 hours of age - or will be during the night - a pump would be a good idea.
When a baby is in the NICU and will not wake to feed on schedule or becomes used to ounces before mom has ounces - a pump is definitely needed.
A pump is needed when the baby won't latch, or won't stay latched, or mom is in too much pain to latch, or is too little to latch effectively.
A pump is not needed to prove that colostrum is there. A pump is not needed when the baby is nursing a lot.
It can be easy to get hooked on pumping to "know" how much is there, how much he is getting, to make it all so organized.
Pumps are great.
Pumps are a pain.
When a newborn baby has a very, very molded head and his nose now has swollen tissues due to the deep suctioning required to remove the blood he swallowed on the way to the outside world - a pump might be needed.
When there are 35 week old twins who are sleepy - a pump is definitely needed.
When a baby is not latching and the clock is creeping towards 24 hours of age - or will be during the night - a pump would be a good idea.
When a baby is in the NICU and will not wake to feed on schedule or becomes used to ounces before mom has ounces - a pump is definitely needed.
A pump is needed when the baby won't latch, or won't stay latched, or mom is in too much pain to latch, or is too little to latch effectively.
A pump is not needed to prove that colostrum is there. A pump is not needed when the baby is nursing a lot.
It can be easy to get hooked on pumping to "know" how much is there, how much he is getting, to make it all so organized.
Pumps are great.
Pumps are a pain.