I started my BF journey back in August 2011 when Annabelle was born. The journey was not too pleasant and rather bumpy at the start as I had sore nipples, low in milk supply, no breast pump at the initial point and also lack of knowledge of BF. But after a period of time, I was okay with this experience and I breastfed Annabelle till she reached 11 months old. She weaned herself from BM - breastmilk.
But for the second pregnancy, I am more prepared and excited about the BF journey. Thus far, I am quite happy with what I am doing. I fully BF Abigail and did not supplement with formula milk for the past two months. I am able to produce more milk this time round and I do have two weeks of breast milk stock in the house freezer. Talking about milk stock, I was very happy that I had produced over 100 begs of BM. A big Hooray for myself! I told Ivan that I will continue this journey till the day that Abigail wean herself from BM. I just hope that with my BM, Abigail will continue to grow to be healthy and happy! :)
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| I started building my BM stock on the 2nd week into my confinement |
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| I was very excited! Yield 5oz for the first time (in comparison to the 1st pregnancy) |
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| I had bundled 5 packets (average of 4-5oz) into one, labelled it so that daycare auntie will know the sequence of date (FIFO). |
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| We trained Abigail on bottle feeding too beside DL (direct latch) her. |
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| My first time experience able to extract ~7oz in one pump. Happy to the max! |
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| See carefully on the batch number is No 20. That means I had produced 100 packets of BM!!! Hooray! |
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| A happy BF baby at 2mo! |
Yahoo....keep it up!
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