hi i am new here, i have a 7mo boy who was breastfed for almost 3 months before i became very ill and underwent iv therapy that not only kept me from nursing, but dried up my supply. now that i am recovered i am starting the relactation process. i am on my third day and so far am taking fenugreek, prenatals, eating oatmeal every morning, drinking water, and pumping. I have a medela pis and while i remember it working for me pre-illness, it doesn't seem to work for me now. I will pump for 15min and get nothing, maybe a drop that wont fall off the nipple. After my most recent pumping session today I decided to see if i could hand express anything and i got one squirt and a few drops from each side..........
so are my pump settings wrong? i have no clue what speed or suction works the best and i really don't want to hand express because it hurts to hand express for longer than a min or two.
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 summerbluerain :: (no subject) [+7]
November 2008
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new and pumping?
I had no results with the Medela PIS. It is a good pump though it just works different for different people. I relactated with an Ameda. It also helped if I pumped for shorter amounts of time.. 3-5 minutes as often as possible. I don't know the data by heart but I do know that more of your milk is produced while pumping/nursing that while not. Meaning the pumping for shorter times more frequently seems to show more results faster. :) boo! To be honest, I didn't pump at night at all. ok i was wondering about that because machi sleeps through the night and i really was confused why i had to pump during the night if he was sleeping through it..... It is possible that they will do that. A good LC is also going to understand that you need more suction that you would normally need with just pumping. cool tell her good luck Nope it doesn't matter :) Most likely you will start getting colosturm like milk again first which you will have a very hard time pumping. |
