Taking advice from the professionals?
The little one has been packing on weight nicely and the advice of don't spend over an hour feeding her (ie. 15mins max of breast each side). Feeding her 20 mins each side + formula may be too much. We may have been over feeding her.
So... I stopped giving her formula, thinking maybe she was having too much that's why she was spilling heaps.
The result? In short... chaos and nervous breakdown for the mum...
Because she then became very difficult to settle and for her to go to sleep...
Literately screaming her heads off and crying for no obvious reasons... even when you are cuddling her... that really drive me nuts and really didn't know what to do.
Mum and dad helped heaps, especially mum... helping to calm the little one down and put her to sleep... for as long as she would sleep.
Then eventually, the hubby decided that only thing that has changed was the lack of formula... so we put her back on formula top up...
The result... much happier baby and she actually can fall asleep by herself most of the time, rather than having to be cuddled.... especially when she was fed heaps!
What do you know, baby can give out mixed signals, too... because last night she was still crying and being unhappy... offering food didn't really seem to work? Or did it?
Oh well... fingers crossed and we will see how it goes.
Am really grateful to have Carol calling from Malaysia to give some advices and tips... also my gf Alice calling from Brisbane yesterday for a chat.
Anyways... I think most of the midwives would go for a norm approach in giving advices... but we do have a big baby here and probably just need more food...
As for my milk supply, well there are milk alright, just a little short... so yeah :P I guess we will just keep formula-ing her till she won't take it anymore... :P
Sally
So... I stopped giving her formula, thinking maybe she was having too much that's why she was spilling heaps.
The result? In short... chaos and nervous breakdown for the mum...
Because she then became very difficult to settle and for her to go to sleep...
Literately screaming her heads off and crying for no obvious reasons... even when you are cuddling her... that really drive me nuts and really didn't know what to do.
Mum and dad helped heaps, especially mum... helping to calm the little one down and put her to sleep... for as long as she would sleep.
Then eventually, the hubby decided that only thing that has changed was the lack of formula... so we put her back on formula top up...
The result... much happier baby and she actually can fall asleep by herself most of the time, rather than having to be cuddled.... especially when she was fed heaps!
What do you know, baby can give out mixed signals, too... because last night she was still crying and being unhappy... offering food didn't really seem to work? Or did it?
Oh well... fingers crossed and we will see how it goes.
Am really grateful to have Carol calling from Malaysia to give some advices and tips... also my gf Alice calling from Brisbane yesterday for a chat.
Anyways... I think most of the midwives would go for a norm approach in giving advices... but we do have a big baby here and probably just need more food...
As for my milk supply, well there are milk alright, just a little short... so yeah :P I guess we will just keep formula-ing her till she won't take it anymore... :P
Sally
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