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Like many nursing moms, I struggled with supply issues that made breastfeeding close to impossible. But unlike many women, I didn’t have to deal with undersupply. Instead, my breasts produced so much milk that I was in constant pain and my babies had difficulty feeding. I had oversupply, and it was so bad that it made me want to quit breastfeeding.
With my firstborn, I was an anxious mess waiting for my milk to come in. In preparation for breastfeeding, I read as much as possible on the topic, a lot of which centered on tips and tricks for handling undersupply. I was convinced that when my milk arrived, it wouldn’t be enough. But I couldn’t have been more wrong.
When we got home from the hospital, I remember worrying out loud to my husband and wondering when my boobs would make the switch from producing colostrum to liquid gold. At the start of that conversation, my breasts were normal. I am not exaggerating when I say that literally five minutes later, they were full-blown torpedo boobs. By the end of the day, my boobs had grown two to three sizes, and they were rock-hard. The pain was breathtaking.
I was relieved my milk had come in, but my anxiety didn’t ease up. Based on Google searches and Facebook crowdsourcing, my supply should have slowed down within a few days to match my daughter’s feeding schedule. But it just seemed to keep growing. I was feeding my daughter 10-12 times a day and pumping upwards of 20 ounces a day just to relieve the pressure.
I knew I should lay off the pumping because of the law of supply and demand: the more I fed and pumped, the more my breasts would produce. But I couldn’t stand the pain between feedings. I tried putting icepacks on my breasts and taking Tylenol to reduce the discomfort, but to no avail. Pumping between feedings seemed like my only recourse. Within two weeks, my freezer was so full of milk that we couldn’t open it, lest we get pummeled with frozen bricks of milk. We even stopped buying frozen foods because we simply didn’t have the room to put them anywhere.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, my left breast deflated. Literally. It went from looking like a cantaloupe to a shriveled-up balloon. And I couldn’t get a drop of milk out of it.
To say I panicked would be the world’s biggest understatement. I was so confused: how did this even happen? Did it mean I would have to stop nursing? Would my boob ever look normal again? I was a lopsided, emotional mess.
From surfing web forums, I could see that it wasn’t uncommon for milk supply to dry up seemingly overnight, usually due to external factors like stress. I’d also heard that it was common for women to have one breast that produced more than the other, either due to natural anatomical differences or to baby preferring to nurse on one side. Yet I’d never heard of one boob deflating, full stop.
I reached out to several lactation consultants, none of whom had ever seen a rogue tit like mine. Nobody could give me an explanation. My sobs were met with the repeated refrain of “let me do some research and get back to you.” In the meantime, I continued to put my daughter to my deflated breast and pump it, per their advice, in an attempt to revive the supply. I also tried Fenugreek supplements, dark beer, and prayers.
After a few days, my breast began to re-inflate and produce again. But the cycle repeated itself a few times during the first six months of breastfeeding. While the lactation consultants were unable to figure out why, my OB-GYN suggested that I had overproduced so much so fast, that my breast was simply overextended. Why it only happened to the left side remains a mystery.
Luckily, the final months of breastfeeding were uneventful: there were no more deflating boobs and significantly less engorgement. In total, I survived 12 months of nursing my daughter.
By the time I gave birth to my second child, I figured I had a handle on breastfeeding. But again, I was dead wrong.
Just as it did the first time, my milk came in fast and furious. It was incredibly painful and more intense this time, and it didn’t help that my son wanted to eat every 45 minutes around the clock for his first three weeks of life. He demanded and boy, did I supply. I was worried I would get mastitis, because my ducts were constantly full and often clogged. It looked like I had peas under my skin. I was so engorged that it felt like my breasts were going to explode. And it made latching difficult for my son; even if I hand-expressed first, I simply had too much milk. He would choke and gasp the first several seconds of each feeding.
Of course, the upside was that he was growing like a weed. I delighted in knowing I was helping my baby thrive, but I still cried at every feeding; breastfeeding might be natural, but it felt like it was anything but. The pain, constant leaking, and anxiety over being away from my baby or breast pump for more than two hours lest I explode often overshadowed the joy associated with breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding is not an easy journey for many women, and for me, it was something of an emotional roller coaster; I went from producing too much to being terrified that I wasn’t producing enough to producing way too much all over again. Nonetheless, I persisted with both of my kids, and I’m grateful. I was able to nourish my babies, and there’s no better feeling than that. Besides, in the process I discovered my superhero power: producing breast milk. Now I’m just waiting for Marvel to create a superhero comic based on me.
I cherish so much the moments when I have successful breastfeeding experiences. If my baby eats out both breasts and then falls asleep, milkdrunk – that’s just bliss for me.
Unfortunately, that is now not happening so often. Just after I dealt with low milk supply and got around solving it, and making sure it doesn’t go down, now I’m also dealing with my son rejecting my breast. The only way I can breastfeed him, is right after he has woken up, while he’s still sleepy. Or I have to make him fall asleep and then feed him. On rare occasions he has also fed while he’s awake if we are bouncing on the fitness ball. All other times it’s pumped milk in a bottle, or in the worst cases milk in a syringe.
I don’t know what has caused all this. A couple of times it has been because of him having teething pains – then he literally looks at the breast or bottle and cries because he wants the food but it just hurts, and the syringe then is the savior. But in general, the only idea of the reason that I have is that he might have formed negative associations with the breast when the milk supply was low and that made him upset. I don’t know why exactly, but it sucks.
This morning, for example, he woke up after a four hour sleep. Not upset or anything, but wont even look at the breast, just chilling in my arms and making fart-pushing faces. OK, I still had a hope he would eat a few moments later, bouncing on the fitness ball, so we moved on to changing his nappy, giving it a go on the ball, with no success, so I put him on the floor for playtime. Nope – upset because of being hungry. Back to the ball, and yesss – he actually started eating. But then that lasted only 2 minutes instead of at least 4. He was still grumpy when I put him on the floor. Oh, what to do, I pumped 2 ounces of milk and tried to feed him with bottle – no, not gonna happen. A few sucks and then he started doing the wiggly worm. Last resort – the syringe. No resistance there, except half of the milk ended up on his clothes because he just spat it out mostly.
This is so stressful and upsetting for me. If he at least was a chubbier baby, I would be OK, one or two skipped meals won’t do any harm. But he has barely gained any weight within a month – only around 300 grams. And that’s while having a bit of solids every day. I’m literally fearing every doctor’s visit when he is getting weighed.
Another more of an annoyance with this is that we can’t really go anywhere with the child without stress. Going to visit my parents is a headache because I know that will be a day of feeding problems. Everything has to be planned and timed precisely – he always has to go on a nap just in time so he would wake up for meal time, and so that the meal time wouldn’t come while he’s fully awake. Even going on a walk with a pram is often stressful – god forbid that he wakes up before we have returned home!
I did discover a very good YouTube channel that talks about all the breastfeeding problems, including milk supply and breast rejection – Lyndsey Hookway – Feed Sleep Bond. I wish I had come across it when I was still pregnant, or at least in the early days after my son was born. Such good insight and important details are given by the lactation consultant there that no one tells anyone here. No prenatal classes talk about it to so much detail. All I have is a handed out book called Breastfeeding ABC, which does touch upon my issues but barely. After reading it while being pregnant, the only problem I feared with regard to breastfeeding was mastitis and clogged milk ducts.
Turns out that breastfeeding is so simple yet very complicated at the same time. Let’s hope things get better and I don’t end up having a nervous breakdown. Just kidding. Or am I? :p
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Have you ever smelled something funky and can’t figure out where it’s coming from? Like, is it me? Does my shirt smell like mildew? Is that my hair smelling like moldy vegetables? Or is it the baby? Why can’t I find that smell!?
Sometimes, as a new (totally, completely, 100% exhausted mama) you just don’t have the energy to locate the source of the odorous offense. That’s me right now. My husband said he doesn’t smell anything so I’m ok with that. If it’s me, at least I’m the only one who smells it. *insert shrug here*
P.S. I totally forgot how to spell “completely” so I let autofill put that in for me. Thank you, Apple. #thesearemyconfessions
Anywho, that has nothing to do with today’s post but I had to get it off my chest (but not really because I still smell it..)
My littlest angel was born on May 18th at 6:14 p.m. She was 3 weeks early but she was ready to enter the world. And I’m so in love with her. In fact, I’m completely obsessed with my children. Is that weird?
This is what I like to refer to as “milk drunk.” She definitely gets the good stuff. 😍 And she looks so much like her big sister it’s a little scary.
We were expecting her to be a big ‘un like her sister. For one, I had Gestational diabetes and two, according to the sonogram tech 4 days before delivery, she was measuring at 8lbs. But alas, my princess was 7lbs, 8oz. And she’s absolutely perfect. I can’t stop staring at her and daddy hardly ever puts her down. Men with daughters, amIright?
I wrote about my struggles with breastfeeding Nina in this post. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do in my life. We were able to get some of mama’s good stuff for about 5 months (in addition to supplementing with formula) but my goal was 1 year.
Well, here we are again. I’m not going to start this journey off in a negative space. I’m not. I’m determined to breastfeed for as long as I can again and hopefully that will be the entire 12 months.
But we’re starting off a little rough already.
I’m more mindful of my caloric intake this time around so I’m definitely eating. And everyone says the key to pumping mass quantities of this liquid gold is to drink lots and lots of water. (Although, according to kellymom, drinking more water than is necessary – like outside of thirst – does not increase milk supply.) So I’ve been chugging water like the world’s supply is going to dry up before I have a chance to get a refill. (And apparently, caffeine (aka coffee!) is not good for increasing milk supply. I mean, can I live?? Seriously. 😒)
I’ve also made a batch of lactation cookies, I drink Mother’s Milk tea daily, and I’m pumping right after I nurse. And so far, the most I’ve gotten is about 1 1/2oz. That’s a little discouraging but it’s something.
Side note: A friend of mine (who happens to be a nurse and also has a newborn) turned me on to the term “lazy boob.” While my left breast will yield anywhere from 1/2oz to 2oz on its own in a single session, I’ve never gotten more than 1/2oz out of the right. So yeah, Struggletown, U.S.A. But I’m trying. Really, really hard.
The pressure to be a breastfeeding pro is real. And so is the struggle. I realize my stress and anxiety about breastfeeding probably led to a lot of the difficulties I had the first time around. It’s all a mind game. But isn’t everything?
I feel pressure to be successful with this. I feel pressure to fill up my freezer with bags of frozen milk. I feel pressure that my daughter gains weight and has those cute little wrist creases like fat babies have. (I’m completely obsessed with the wrist creases and the dimpled hands. So. Stinkin. Cute.) I feel pressure to supplement with formula (like I did with Nina) because she’s not gaining a ton of weight.
But in the back of my mind I know I got this. I’ve read a lot of Pinterest posts about the best ways to increase milk production and a lot of them say to just relax. Visualize your baby. Pump close to her. In fact, pump while she nurses. (Probably won’t be doing this because it’s just too much. Nursing and pumping at the same time? Umm, no. Besides, my daughter nurses on both sides because she’s greedy. Despite her small size.)
So when I go to pump, I do take a chill pill. And I scroll through my Facebook or Instagram feeds. Or take a lap around Pinterest. Or read a book. (Right now I’m reading How to Be a Bawse by Lilly Singh and it’s not only entertaining but puts me in a good headspace.)
Btw, I made my own hands-free pumping bra. I basically followed these steps with an old/inexpensive sports bra. And I love it.
Then, when I’m finished, I celebrate my pumping success (whether it be mere drops or the 2 1/2oz I literally JUST pumped #winning!) with a nice hot cup of decaf. And cuddles with my little miss 😊
My first freezer bag of breast milk! P.S. I love Lansinoh products. I even use the Lansinoh pump. But that’s a post for another day. 😉
So what is your experience with breastfeeding/pumping? Do you have any advice for me? Leave a comment below.
Thanks for reading. Until next time,
XOXO
6 FOOD TO INCREASE LACTATION NATURALLY
Becoming a Mother is a most fascinating dream of a woman when it comes true in their life. She go through a long journey of whole 9 months and finally that day comes, when you hold your baby in your hand with tears of joy.
However, in the modern days almost every mother starts worrying while lactating their babies with a weird questions arise in their mind… am I lactating sufficiently? Is my baby getting sufficient milk to fill his/her tummy?
It’s really heartbreaking when some mothers have lactation deficiency, i.e. inadequate breast milk production resulting to an inability to breastfeed their babies properly.
So, for those moms today I am sharing some food that can boost your Lactation.
The Moringa leaves are the most nutritious part of the plant, being significant source of Vitamin B, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, manganese and protein.
It improves the immunity of the body to fight against malnutrition especially among nursing mother and infants.
These Moringa leaves are used in curry, dal, and toppings on dosas, uthappas and sabjis mixed with grated coconuts.
Using garlic cloves in your daily food helps to increase milk production. When we eat garlic it gets mixed with your breast milk and it changes the taste and smell of the milk. Sometimes some babies don’t like the taste of it, please don’t avoid it, and try to include it in your diet because it’s one of the best sources of food that increases your lactation.
If you are a nonveg lover and you like fish the most, then paal sravu is the best for increasing breast milk. If you can’t find the fresh ones, you can consume the dried fish which are easily available in the fish market.
Dal especially Moong daal is easily digestible and improves lactation. The presence of Thiamine in dal is very healthy for nursing mother.
Eating Almonds & Walnuts does wonders during your breastfeeding period. It helps to increase the creaminess and the amount of breast milk.
Cooking food in Gingelly Oil helps to stimulate breast milk. Roasting few garlic cloves in gingelly oil and mixing it with some rice is very beneficial for nursing moms.
These Food were suggested to me by my grandma.
What you all did to stimulate lactation?
Five things I know about Breastfeeding!