Put your finger on your baby's neck, just under his chin/ear. You should be able to feel swallowing.
And you LC is wrong, btw. This was our breastfeeding issue, which wasn't discovered until DD lost weight at nearly 5 weeks. DD was latched on, sucking, around the clock. But would only swallow for the first couple of minutes after latching on (every three hours or so). My milk supply was by then very low, and it took 5 months of LCs, donor milk, SNS, fenugreek, domperidone, switch-nursing, scheduling etc. to get that sorted.
Check out drjacknewman.com
Learn how to feed actively, to keep baby on the task. We switch-nursed, fed actively for about 1 hour and 15 min, then baby off the breast for 1-3 hours (not counting nights, we fed on demand then), for play and sleep, baby woke up and feed again (after 3 pm she didn't usually sleep, was just awake for up to an hour before feeding again).
And you LC is wrong, btw. This was our breastfeeding issue, which wasn't discovered until DD lost weight at nearly 5 weeks. DD was latched on, sucking, around the clock. But would only swallow for the first couple of minutes after latching on (every three hours or so). My milk supply was by then very low, and it took 5 months of LCs, donor milk, SNS, fenugreek, domperidone, switch-nursing, scheduling etc. to get that sorted.
Check out drjacknewman.com
Learn how to feed actively, to keep baby on the task. We switch-nursed, fed actively for about 1 hour and 15 min, then baby off the breast for 1-3 hours (not counting nights, we fed on demand then), for play and sleep, baby woke up and feed again (after 3 pm she didn't usually sleep, was just awake for up to an hour before feeding again).
