08/10/2025
🤱🏻Breastfeeding Update for Baby E and I 💕
Cluster fed on Day 1 and brought my milk in by the evening of Day 2.
She was quite tight in her jaw and neck after birth so I did end up with some ni**le damage (now healed with tissue donut and ni**le balm between feeds) as well as massaging the cheeks and jaw.
Feeds are a combo of side-lying and upright positioning - whatever is more comfortable for E and I at the time.
She takes in a huge amount of air during feeds despite all my tricks and performing oral exercises, massage and stretching for body tension. We are burping every feed as well.
I do have a very generous supply so I’m only expressing enough for a bottle feed every few days - no more than that as I don’t want to create an over supply. Bottle feeding hasn’t started yet, but the intention is a few bottles per week to maintain the skill for when I need to leave E with others.
Otherwise she is growing beautifully - had a 4% initial loss but was back above birthweight by day 5 and doing mustard stools on day 3.
Our next steps are to keep up with the exercises we have been doing, have some bodywork with and see the beautiful Katie next week for a second opinion on tongue function - my eldest had a very obvious Tongue Tie, however this one is not so obvious 🥲😬
Overall enjoying the newborn bubble, especially seeing my eldest become a big brother ❤️
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