Embrace Borstvoeding

09/09/2024

DYK: The longer a child is breastfed 🤱🏾, the greater their protection from obesity later in life.

29/07/2024

Als borstvoeding niet lekker gaat dan kan dat een te korte tongriem zijn, maar lang niet altijd. Laat het eerst beoordelen door lactatiekundige die hiervoor gespecialiseerd is.

16/04/2024

Vorige week met het team Tongriem Praktijk Nijmegen op werkbezoek geweest in Ierland. Weer meer geleerd over tongriemen, behandelingen en nazorg. Het blijft fascinerend.

06/02/2024

Samen met je baby slapen? Hier info erover.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/S7Mwr1JqGvgMcDqy/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Sleep is one of the most discussed topics amongst new parents.
Find out more about the 7 steps to safer co-sleeping and reducing SIDS risks here:

https://www.laleche.org.uk/safe-sleep-the-breastfed-baby/

30/01/2024

Kijk eens hoe mooi deze baby aan de borst ligt te drinken!

22/01/2024

Over de impact van slaap training. Liever niet dus.

12/09/2023

Online scholing over Tongriempjes. . Op de hoogte blijven en steeds meer leren over baby’s met voedingsproblemen.

20/07/2023

Melkproductie en opbrengst bij kolven besproken.

The amount of breast milk that you can pump (yield) is not an indication of the amount of milk that you are making (supply).

It is only an indication of how much you can pump, at that time, from that breast, with that pump.

Some women respond well to pumping, some do not respond as well.

Breast milk is made on a supply and demand basis. In the very first hours and days after your baby is born milk production is mostly hormone driven.

Frequent breast stimulation and milk removal set up the lactation hormone systems to continue making milk on demand. With newborns, frequent means really really frequent. At least 10 times in 24h. ⏰Wake them if you need to. 🌛During the night is really important too. ✨

Those💕 hormones 💕are released when you are skin to skin, smelling, touching and holding your baby. Your body knows the difference between a baby and a pump.

That’s why it’s worth trying pumping on one side when you are feeding on the other if you want to increase your yield. Or having a video of your baby laughing or crying or something that smells of them if you are pumping when you are apart. Use your hands before, during and after using the pump. Check out ‘hands on pumping’ online for tips.

If you are pumping to up your supply, first work on your babies latch, get support from someone who will watch a whole feed and not just say ‘oh that latch looks good’ . Start breast compression and switch feeding to increase the amount of active milk transfer.

This approach can be more effective than pumping, especially if you are someone that doesn’t respond well to expressing. 📈

You can’t measure how much milk a breastfed baby is getting by measuring how much their mum can express after a feed. You can’t measure your supply by measuring your yield.

Every drop of your milk is precious and a huge achievement.