Margarett RBC Zavodny
Quoting MusherMaggie:
Nurse,nurse,and nurse again. Sit in a sunny window with her stripped down to her diaper. She is probably sleepy so she will need to be awakened to feed every two hours around the clock. When she falls off or falls asleep on the breast, burp and change sides. You may need to do this several times per feeding. She definitely needs to pass the meconium. She should make one diaper for each day of life until she's doing 6-8 in 24 hours by the time she reaches one week of age.
The best indicator of a newborn getting enough milk is poop. Baby really "should" pass the meconium by day 3, and then be pooping at least 4 poops every day, poop should be at least the size o a quarter.
Spend as much time together skin to skin, with baby on your bare chest. When baby starts to slow down at the breast use some breast compressions (squeeze the breast) to get the milk flowing and encourage baby to suck/swallow more.
Quoting luvmylilbean:
For one diaper per age does it have to be poo? She has had 3 wet diapers since 8am (it's 10pm) not very wet but a little. She is super sleepy but I've been getting her to nurse one side at a time for 5-15 mins. I just am afraid her bilirubin levels will go way up :/
Quoting MusherMaggie:
Nurse,nurse,and nurse again. Sit in a sunny window with her stripped down to her diaper. She is probably sleepy so she will need to be awakened to feed every two hours around the clock. When she falls off or falls asleep on the breast, burp and change sides. You may need to do this several times per feeding. She definitely needs to pass the meconium. She should make one diaper for each day of life until she's doing 6-8 in 24 hours by the time she reaches one week of age.
Quoting maggiemom2000:The best indicator of a newborn getting enough milk is poop. Baby really "should" pass the meconium by day 3, and then be pooping at least 4 poops every day, poop should be at least the size o a quarter.
Spend as much time together skin to skin, with baby on your bare chest. When baby starts to slow down at the breast use some breast compressions (squeeze the breast) to get the milk flowing and encourage baby to suck/swallow more.
Quoting luvmylilbean:
For one diaper per age does it have to be poo? She has had 3 wet diapers since 8am (it's 10pm) not very wet but a little. She is super sleepy but I've been getting her to nurse one side at a time for 5-15 mins. I just am afraid her bilirubin levels will go way up :/
Quoting MusherMaggie:
Nurse,nurse,and nurse again. Sit in a sunny window with her stripped down to her diaper. She is probably sleepy so she will need to be awakened to feed every two hours around the clock. When she falls off or falls asleep on the breast, burp and change sides. You may need to do this several times per feeding. She definitely needs to pass the meconium. She should make one diaper for each day of life until she's doing 6-8 in 24 hours by the time she reaches one week of age.
How many times has she nursed today?
Is your milk in yet?
If you do not start seeing some transitional poop in the next 12 hrs you may want to start hand expressing and givng her some by syringe, cup, or spoon. Here's a video:
http://newborns.stanford.edu/Breastfeeding/HandExpression.html
Quoting luvmylilbean:
She had several poopy diapers the day she was born (Thursday) and several yesterday, all merconium poop. But no more since last night at 11
Quoting maggiemom2000:The best indicator of a newborn getting enough milk is poop. Baby really "should" pass the meconium by day 3, and then be pooping at least 4 poops every day, poop should be at least the size o a quarter.
Spend as much time together skin to skin, with baby on your bare chest. When baby starts to slow down at the breast use some breast compressions (squeeze the breast) to get the milk flowing and encourage baby to suck/swallow more.
Quoting luvmylilbean:
For one diaper per age does it have to be poo? She has had 3 wet diapers since 8am (it's 10pm) not very wet but a little. She is super sleepy but I've been getting her to nurse one side at a time for 5-15 mins. I just am afraid her bilirubin levels will go way up :/
Quoting MusherMaggie:
Nurse,nurse,and nurse again. Sit in a sunny window with her stripped down to her diaper. She is probably sleepy so she will need to be awakened to feed every two hours around the clock. When she falls off or falls asleep on the breast, burp and change sides. You may need to do this several times per feeding. She definitely needs to pass the meconium. She should make one diaper for each day of life until she's doing 6-8 in 24 hours by the time she reaches one week of age.
Keep nursing...she should be having atleast 8-12 wet diapers a day...you will know that she is getting enough to eat if she poops...try to aim for 15 minutes per breast per feeding snd try nursing on both breasts at each feeding so should be about 30 mins total...wake her often if she is sleeping through her feedings too, every 2-3 hours...any longer than that could hurt your milk supply and you want to nurse as much as possible right now to establish a plentiful milk supply
What do you while nursing your lil one?
Would it be okay if I did this????
- luvmylilbean
on Feb. 16, 2013 at 9:44 PM