Lactation Advice

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First few days after birth
- Place hot compress on breasts before breastfeeding in order to soften engorged breasts.
- Try breastfeeding baby for 5 to 10 minutes then if necessary offer your bottled breast milk or formula
- Formula does take more energy and effort for the baby to absorb and digest.
- Try to breastfeed for 10 to 20 minutes on each breast
- If baby isn't stimulating the breast enough you may need to pump your milk from your breast in order to get ample milk for the baby. This may be because the baby's sucklin is not vigorous enough.
- Sleep is just as important as breastfeeding. You should be able to get a minimum of 2 hours of sleep in between feedings.
- If baby doesn't nurse well then pump for longer to compensate and to keep milk coming. Pump for 6-7 minutes. Stop. Massage breast to encourage more milk, but don't overdo it.
- Baby should have approximately 4 or more stools a day.
- You can always do breastfeeding and continue to give your baby formula to help ensure that the baby is receiving sufficient nutrition. You may need to eventually pump more milk to increase your milk supply when you want to stop using formula.