Hi all
My LG is almost 4 months old and is EBF. I pump when I am at work.
I have never had issues with pumping enough. In fact, I generally need to watch how much I pump as it can cause oversupply. Something that I struggle with usually. I am generally able to pump between 160 and 180ml for each of the 3 feeds she gets when I am not at home.
I know the Kellymom website states that baby typically has an average daily intake of 750 mL, with a range of 570-900 mL per day of breastmilk.
The problem I have is that recently our daymother started giving my LG 220mls of expressed breast milk 3 times a day whilst I am at work. This amounts to 660mls! My freezer stash is dwindling fast...
On top of the 3 expressed breast milk bottles, I directly nurse my LG 3-4 times a day, depending on how many times she wakes up at night. As such, she gets 6-7 feeds per day.
Do you think 220ml of expressed breast milk per feed is too much or is it normal?
LG is a large baby, 4,21kg at birth and now weighs 7,55kgs at almost 4 months. She is not fat, as she is also tall and the Pead said her weight to height ratio is perfect.
I questioned our daymother and her answer was that LG hungrily finishes the entire bottle
I am not sure what to do at this point, as even with (what I though at least) my generally good milk supply, I wont be able to keep up pumping 660ml and nurse baby 3-4 times a day. The last thing I want to do is introduce formula
Your thoughts?