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Breastfeeding PSA:

Milk can come in as late as 5 days. Don’t fret. Right now your boobies have colostrum.

Newborn’s eat as often as 12 times a day for 40 minutes at a time.

To tell if a baby is getting enough milk only go on their wet/poopy diaper output.

WIC and La-leeche Leage (as well as your ob, pedi and hospital) will likely give you free or cheap breastfeeding help.

Flaxseeds, oatmeal and mothers milk tea can boost supply.

Milk goes on a supply and demand. If you give formula or give previously expressed milk, you have to stimulate your nipple to replace the amount of ounces you fed your baby (or try to).

If you can’t get enough milk but you don’t want to quit breastfeediing, try pumping after you feed the baby and top of the baby with formula.

Try to feed the baby within 1 hr of birth.

Try to make sure the whole (or as much as you can shove) gets in the babies mouth.

Hand expressing can work as well as pumping and you don’t have to boil your hands.

Breastfeeding doesn’t cost nearly as much as formula.

Your doctor can prescribe drugs to increase your supply if your desperate.

You may be able to find a local milk bank or human-milk-for-human-babies if donor milk sounds like a good idea.

They sell nipple butter and pads to make it hurt less.

Breastfeeding usually hurts less as the mother gets used to it. Also, a bad latch can cause pain so ask the nurse in the hospital to fix you if it seems like your having trouble.

Breastfeeding burns 300-650 calories.

No matter what your diet is, your breastmilk will still have lots of vitamins and other healthy stuff. Your body will give all your vitamins away if your diet isn’t good enough.

Some hospital nurses give the babies in the nursery fomula while you sleep but that can screw with your supply and demand.

The academy of pediatrics reccommends breastfeeding(or formula) til 1 year. The WHO reccommends breastfeeding for 2 years.