What is the difference between pumping and breastfeeding?
I have been breastfeeding my 4 day old baby but we gave her a pacifier last night and she has not eaten scence… i am afraid she will not take the breast again and my boyfriend is pushing pumping… I really want to breastfeed but what is the difference if you put the breast milk into the bottle?
She is rejecting the breast when i offer it… if she takes it she sucks twice lightly and drops off it and freaks out!! Please help.
– exclusive pumping is HARD work; you will need to pump whenever baby would eat, eg — throughout the night — and likely more frequently at first to build your supply, since no pump works as well as a baby
– breast milk changes throughout the day and throughout a feeding; it has wonderful things like sleep-inducing hormones at night; it’s watery and thirst-quenching at the start of a feed and a fatty dessert by the end…
– sucking at the breast is good for babies’ jaw/facial development in ways sucking at bottles are not
– you will be much more likely to wean prematurely, to end up supplementing with formula
see
“Help — My Baby Won’t Nurse!”
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/baby/back-to-breast.html
kellymom.com is VERY reliable and can answer loads of nursing questions for you…
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