[blparent] breastfeeding and prematurity

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi, Bernadetta.  I did what felt like an endless array of natural products 
to get my milk supply up.  Carrots, oatmeal, Mother's Milk Tea, even Stout 
beer and salt peanuts, as recommended by an old retired nurse at my church. 
None of them worked very well, and I did end up having to supplement with 
formula, though I kept up the exhausting marathon of feeding and pumping for 
my daughter's first year--mostly because I was too damn stubborn to quit, I 
think.

Anyway, I digress.  The best thing that helped me was a supplement called 
More Milk Plus.  It was a combination of several different herbs.  I urge 
you to find out more about it at www.motherlove.com.  The Web site is very 
accessible, and the company backs up its health claims with scientific 
information.  I suppose by the time I bought the amount of More Milk Plus I 
needed to get through the first year, I didn't save much money over buying 
formula.  But I was able to keep breastmilk in my baby's diet, which was the 
important thing to me.  Hope this helps.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Bernadetta Pracon" <bernadetta_pracon at samobile.net>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:12 AM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] breastfeeding and prematurity

> Jan,
> I know you say you've given up on trying to get your boy to nurse directly 
> from the breast, but I thought I'd share something that seems to work for 
> me somewhat. My son has had a lot of trouble latching on too; Well, he 
> latches but then he gets confused as to what he's supposed to do 
> afterwords. But I've been using a nipple shield and that seems to be just 
> the thing to allow him to nurse properly. Also, with the nipple shield I 
> have absolutely no problem positioning him, so if you need help with 
> latching him directly, maybe the nipple shield would at least allow you to 
> be able to do it yourself.  Granted, it's plastic and so there is a slight 
> barier between the baby and the mom, but at least it's something. I can 
> get him to nurse like that for fifteen minutes or so before he gets 
> frustrated. Then it's time for the bottle.
> That being said, I do the frequent pumping thing too, as well as the tea, 
> but I'm still having to supplement with some formula, something I'm not 
> very happy about. If I may ask, what are aniseeds? I'm trying to increase 
> my milk supply and make it last for as long as I can because my boy is 
> still only three months old, and I hope I can keep nursing until he's a 
> year old. It's crossed my mind to start taking one of those drugs like 
> reglan, but I've been paying attention to what's been said on here about 
> such drugs, and so I'm very hesitant. So I'm looking into whatever natural 
> supplements I can find to help me keep up the supply. Maybe nine more 
> months might be a real stretch for me, but I would probably be really 
> upset if I had to give it up before Gabriel is six months old at least.
>
> Bernadetta
>
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