Re: sleep, work, and milk supply

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1. You are blessed if your baby wants to sleep more than 3-4 hours at night. By 6 1/2 weeks, if your baby wants to sleep longer than 3-4 hours, you should let her. (assuming, of course, that she is gaining weight properly, etc.) Your milk supply should be fine, and in fact, you may be uncomfortably engorged the first few times that your baby sleeps longer. (I thought I was going to die the first time my kiddo slept through the night--there was so much milk leaked out it was like I wet the bed. lol.)

2. When will you be going back to work???? If you milk supply is well established by the time you go to work, your body will adjust to making milk for when your baby needs it--morning and at night. If possible, you might want to ease into this schedule, starting at home. You might find yourself really uncomfortable if you go from demand feeding to going 6 hours without feeding.

3. The only other comment I have is whether you have already given your baby pumped bottles. Some babies strongly prefer mama and won't take nipples at first. My son started with expressed milk at 6 weeks out of a bottle for a couple of feedings. It took him a bit to get used to it--remarkably, it didn't need to be heated up for him too much--just take the chill off of it with running warm watet on the outside of tha bag. Daddy gave it to him with me out of the room.

My sister's kid never got used to a nipple at all.

Sometimes you have to be patient with it, but it is something that you want to be trying out before going back to work. Preferably with a non-mom giving the bottle.

Hope this info helps. :)

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Jane

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