Last week after some severe cramping, my gyn sent me to ER after WBC came back high. What they thought was appendecitis turned out to be a several hour surgery to remove a minorly ucky appendix in addition to several inches of small bowel that had a ruptured lesion. It is stll in pathology a week later. 5 days were spent on a morphine pump (set for every 10 minutes), an ng tube for 5 days, and no food for 5 days. Thank god for my bff who pumped and rounded up several other woman to pump, as they fed DD2 the entire week. I pumped and pumped and pumped in the hospital and was lucky to get 3 oz a day. I think my body was in shock and still is.
Now dd2 has never been the comfort nurser that dd1 was and she has depended much more on pumped milk while I am at work. She is still nursing the same but I am concerned for her when I go back to work next week. As wonderful as my friends are they can't keep pumping for me so I am stuck either doing formula (she has never had a drop) or whole milk. Physically, I cannot get milk in enough amts. I am eating a small diet and dealing with soft bland foods and if I don't I get sick. I am 15lbs down (whoohoo haha) but at an awful price.
So which? Whole milk or formula. She will of course still nurse at night and in the morn hopefully as long as dd1 did.
Tia!
Now dd2 has never been the comfort nurser that dd1 was and she has depended much more on pumped milk while I am at work. She is still nursing the same but I am concerned for her when I go back to work next week. As wonderful as my friends are they can't keep pumping for me so I am stuck either doing formula (she has never had a drop) or whole milk. Physically, I cannot get milk in enough amts. I am eating a small diet and dealing with soft bland foods and if I don't I get sick. I am 15lbs down (whoohoo haha) but at an awful price.
So which? Whole milk or formula. She will of course still nurse at night and in the morn hopefully as long as dd1 did.
Tia!
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