Wednesday, January 27, 2010

EBM =expressed breast milk

Its been almost twenty days of direct breast feeding to my son. What's my view?

Advantage:
Building the bond between your child and you.
Cheap
Convenience
Nutritious and its better than formula milk

Disadvantage:
Your child gets addicted to your breast, suckle despite had his empty stomach filled
Engorgement
Lopsided breast
Sore nipples
Countless deprived sleep hours in late nights
Have no idea of much mls was administered to the baby

Anyways, my usual expressed milk from medela electric pump is about 30 -45ml/3h. Amazingly, after a hot herbal soup my mum brewed... it turned out to be 70ml.