Hello :)
It has been almost 3 months now i breastfeed my baby D. During my confinement he was fully breastfed by me as im always with him. Now since ive started working, i tried so hard to continued breastfed him despite my hectic work and piling workload.
Since i was pregnant i was determined to breastfed all my babies until they refused to breastfeed. I do my research but i didn't managed to go to any nursing classes to prepared myself and til now i regret it until now.
2oz!!!
During my Confinement days, i didnt managed to stocked up my breast milk. I didnt think of stocking them to begin with. because i thought that during my lunch time, i would run back home and direct lactating Baby D. Little that i know is that it was far from what i imagine. When i return home, all of the sudden all my work load starts piling up. So as from there, i regret for not piling up my frozen breast milk supply.
Baby D has a big appetite. His 3 months old but he drank at least 3oz per feeding. While i can only produced 1oz - 2oz per pump session of 1 hour.My milk supply drop tremendously since ive started working. During my early post pregnancy i managed to produced 4oz per side.PER SIDE!!! Thats alot. But now, i barely reached 2oz both side. See the difference?
Its depressing.To some maybe you think breast feeding your baby is easy.Actually is not. I have to control and managed your stress. Because stress can effects your milk supply.My guess is that since ive started working my milk supply drops due to stress. I did try to managed my stress, i talked to my Husband and i told him that i need his support by not making me stress and always keep me happy. My Husband is my rock through out this process. He tried his best to support me on breast fed Baby D. Whenever im down, he tried his best to cheer me up, sometimes he helps to hand express my breast milk ( its not disgusting at all when your Husband helps out okay! ). Whenever i can only get 1oz of milk supply, and i was crying, he will make sure he kept my stress control. He bought me chocolate, cakes and all my favorite things to eat to make me happy.
Goji Berry.
The most expensive tea ive bought in my entire life! RM 127.00
Breast feeding to tend to make me hungry all the time. I'm a machine. Before this i cant ever finished my own plate of food. But now i can easily finished them and also i can finished my Husbands' plate.Now i always have snacks in my handbag. Snickers, KitKat, Kinder and Cadburry. Before this my handbag is full with make up but now, snacks.Everytime i pumping breastmilk, i always munching on something. Thank God my weight doesnt changed that much. Breast feeding requires 350 tp 500 calories per session. That's like running for 1 hour. =)
Omnom nom nom !
Hello chocolate
During pumping at 3am.
Right now, ive been searching for my Milk Booster. Milk Booster is a food which will increase your milk supply. Ive tried almost everything and i managed to find one. It was Starbucks Summer Berry Panna Cotta. But sadly enough the drink has run out. YES! Seems like Summer Berry Panna Cotta was every breast feeding moms booster. Ive searched for that particular drink almost all Starbucks outlet and non of them has it. It has been discontinued!. How disappointing.
A few of the milk booster that ive tried :-
Habbasyi oil and Fenugreek pills - No luck!
Lobak Putih soup - my favorite!
Overnight Oats - me and my Husbands' favorite. Oats + bananas + milk/ soy milk + raisin.
Delish!
Flax seed - blend it with smoothie.No luck!
My home made Panna Cotta - doesnt work for me but hell this is delish! My major stress relief =)
Lactating cookies
So, im still in a journey of finding my milk booster.Wish me best of luck.So since my breast milk is not enough for my my hungry Baby D, i have to substitute with formula milk. I wasn't to pleased with it but i have no other choices.
My pumping bag
Im still determine to breast fed Baby D until he turns 2 years old or until he refused to breast fed.Despite the sore nipple, cracked and bleeding nipple, i still want to breast fed him.
I joined a Breast Feeding Group in Facebook where i learn alot from all the Mummies and also share my problems with all of them. I make alot of friends from there and their are like my extended families who always supported me thought this process. Whenever im down, there always encourage me to continue breast fed.
Looking forward to direct lactating and pump for my babies. As many people say, breast milk is the best for our babies. =)
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