• There will be a gradual and natural increase in your baby’s
weight, according to developmental standards. It should be noted
that newborns usually lose approximately 10% of their birth
weight during the first three days.
• There will be between six
and eight wet diapers every
twenty-‐four hours.
• The baby’s stools will be yellow.
Advice for increasing the milk supply
• Breastfeed your baby every time he wants and for as long as
will suffice him (“feeding on demand”).
• Alternate breasts with every feeding.
• Expressing or pumping the milk remaining
in your breast after
breastfeeding your baby will help to increase the milk supply; the
more milk is expressed from the breast the more signals are sent
to the brain that the breast needs to produce more milk.
• Avoid taking contraceptive drugs because
they reduce the milk
supply; but consult your doctor about suitable methods of
contraception whilst breastfeeding.
• Give your baby milk from your breast only,
and try not to give
him a bottle of milk to supplement your breast milk; the rate of
milk supply will adapt to your baby’s needs.
Expressing breast milk
Expressing milk means extracting milk from the breast using one’s
hand or a machine that pumps milk from the breast. Expressing
breast milk is an alternative to direct breastfeeding in cases
where you cannot feed the baby directly for some reason. By
using the pump you can express milk
and store it in bottles or
cups that you can put in the fridge and use when you need them.
Expressing milk from the breast is a new skill for you which you
have to learn so that you can use it if you need to. It is a skill
which,
like other skills, is acquired by learning and practising.
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