Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease by Dana Trentini

Author:Dana Trentini
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780738218687
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2016-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Breastfeeding Difficulties and Issues

There’s no question that for the benefit of your baby, breast milk is considered superior to formula. Breastfed infants reportedly have fewer infections, lower rates of obesity later in life, and better overall health in general. Breastfeeding also helps reduce your own risk of breast cancer, and may help you return to your prepregnancy weight more quickly.

After the birth of your baby, one of the challenges that you may face when trying to breastfeed is low milk supply. Low milk supply is often the reason a woman gives up trying to breastfeed entirely.

If your newborn isn’t gaining weight after the first week, and isn’t having the requisite number of soiled and wet diapers each day, he or she might not be getting enough milk due to low milk supply. Some specific signs that you have low milk supply include:

•Your baby fusses, or continues to root for the breast, after nursing

•Your baby is using less than 5 to 6 soaking-wet disposable diapers (7 to 8 cloth diapers) per day

•Your baby is having fewer than 2 to 5 yellow, runny bowel movements each day in the first month. (After that point, your baby may normally cut down to one bowel movement a day, even a few times each week.)

•Your baby fails to gain about 0.5 ounce a day.

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