Here is my story ..
My BF journey is a very rocky one. From the day I deliver till I when through my confinement and the end of my 2mths maternity leave was horrible. From a specialist hospital which does not support BD to confinement untie who always say I don;t produce milk and even my own mother turn down my wish to BF. Even so I thank God for having a very supportive husband by my side and got through this difficult period. There were too many heads and mouths, hands and legs that's interfering me and my baby. I might sound cruel to think that I was lucky my baby got jaundise because that is the only period I get to spend time with my new born and to BF him. I begin to produce milk on the 3rd day when my baby and I were discharged; at that time, he's 7days old.
After when back home, the drama began again. The confinement lady wouldn't let me hold my baby much and the only time I had was at night. Even that is result from what I fought hard to keep him by my side for the nights as the CL wouldn't let. So I get to BF him during the night so my nipple would get some stimulation but my baby would lose patience and cried, then I will give him FM. No choice. The CL also wouldn't let me take plain water. I would drink whenever she isn;t noticing. With the lack of knowledge on supply and demand, I pump the first time 15ml, 2nd time 10ml then I wasn't pumping anymore and only concentrate on finding ways to increase my supply. It was a very exhausting confinement month.
When the CL is gone, the problem is still there. Now, with my mum. She would say it's a bad habit my boy would wan to nibble eventhou he already taken his milk. To me, it's an opportunity to increase my supply. I was glad my baby is throwing tantrum whole afternoon and evening eventhou he had only taken his FM. And the only way to stop that is let him DF. And I thank God for that. After a long google'ing, I told myself I need to get a good pump. The one I was using before was a borrowed one. At that time, I just came to understand and know a little bit more on BF. That is when I came across SuLi's page and started to book appointment with her. I cut short my stay at my hometown with my mum and I even quarrelled with my mum over that because she wouldn't want me to go thru these fuss with BFing. I explained to her over and over again and still went to meet up with Su Li as I only have about 2 weeks of maternity leave left before getting back to work. I want to at least do what I can with my left over leave to increase my supply.
My husband even took leave to accompany me there and I was greatly moved. Su Li gave tons of advice and the one I remember most was to put quality first than quantity. I went back home and start google'ing again and bought soy milk as recommended by Su Li. I went back to Su Li again to purchase pump and nursing tea. From during confinement month's drips of milk, I was getting 5 to 10ml per session after purchasing the pump and doing some regular pumping. I found in the internet that power pumping had helped a lot of mother with drop of supply to get back the volume and so I tried and my supply increased to 20ml. Then I remembered Su Li's advice and I went searching for supplement which help me tremendously.
With nourished body, I was able to handle the stress and night pumping and still energized to work the next day. On weekends, I did power pumping marathon and this Monday I was getting a stable 1oz per session. Now, I was able to supply 2 bottles of 2.5 to 3oz of milk to my baby's nursery. It is a huge achievement to me. I thank God. I thank my husband and I thank Su Li for all the support. Thank you Su Li for following up with me on my progress. I will continue to fight so my boy would wean fully from FM to exclusively BF.
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