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Archive for January, 2010

Did you know that the breasts are self-cleaning?

No need to clean them with soap. The chemicals in the soap might be harmful for your baby.

You can clean them with purified water before breastfeeding or you can opt not to, just leave them alone.

I have been breastfeeding for seven (7) months now. During the first months of breastfeeding, I was anxious that my milk supply was not enough for my baby, that he would go hungry if I did not give him formula milk as a supplement. However, one breastfeeding mom I talked to told me that the breast REFILLS milk every 15 minutes. With that in mind, I became confident that my baby won’t go hungry. With a good breastpump at hand, I could pump every 15 minutes and store breastmilk while baby was sleeping. Also, as much as possible, I let him breastfeed directly, the real sucking of baby is still different from breastpumping.

Another fact that gave me confidence is that the breasts produce milk based on demand. So if the baby sucks often, the breast produces milk often. If there is a demand, there is supply.

Also, Justine, one of the owners of Mom Massage, advised me to pump out milk every hour to increase my milk supply. The pumping simulated the baby’s demand. So if I pump every hour, the breasts are conditioned to produce every hour too.

One advise, use a quality breast pump not just any breast pump in the drugstore. A quality breast pump simulates the baby’s sucking so the breasts are stimulated. Contact me at proactiveweb-at-gmail-dot-com so I can recommend you the breast pump I used. Even at work, the milk supply can be continuous through breast pumping.

So don’t be anxious of your milk supply, be confident that you can feed your baby 100% breastmilk.