my baby is drinking too little

Dear April,

You are doing really GREAT! Your baby's weight gain is well above the basic guidline of around 1 pound per month. So he must be getting a lot of milk from you. If baby is getting 5-6 wet diapers, it is very good.

What troubles you may be the baby seems like refusing the breast after some sucking. And not to poo for some time. As what you are describing seems that you do have a good letdown, so the baby may not be able to drink as quick as your milk flows. This may make the baby refuse to nurse during a middle of the letdown.

If that is the case, it may be possible that you are a bit oversupply and your baby is taking a bit too much on the foremilk. So that decrease the number of poo.

If you find that this is true, then you can limit the feeding for one breast only, or same breast for a certain period of time. Express the other side a little bit just for comfort if needed. This is to cope with oversupply. Pumping will usually increase supply, so you may see if you really need to pump.

有時,bb食得有餐多d,有餐少d都吾奇既.
如果bb是先埋身食,之後才加瓶餵,佢食吾晒又都吾奇播.
聽妳所講的,我估妳的奶量也不少,所以bb有可能係食一邊乳房就飽了.

食到足夠母乳的BB 每月增重0.5 分斤，你的BB 有增重理想。你有沒有帶BB 返健康院檢查？我會建議由健康院幫你紀錄BB 生長狀況。

BB 有理想的增重，証明BB 食到足夠的母乳，也不需要刻意要BB 多食一點奶，只要你餵一邊的時候，餵到BB 自己自動離口，這樣可保證BB 食到脂肪豐富的後奶，有助增重。

母乳易消化易吸收，而且滿月後便便的次數會減少，有時甚至相隔幾天才排便一次，只要BB 精神活潑，便不要誤以為BB 便秘。

若有懷疑也可請教醫謢人員。

哺乳圍巾，送禮自用皆宜，所有收益撥捐推廣母乳，歡迎選購。