Im a mamma with IGT. Im due with my second the end of May and I want to make sure I do NOT go through what I went through with my first babe (near kidney failure for her and FTT)
I decided to buy a medical grade pump. For those who have pumped before with a medical grade - would you go with a lactina or an ameda elite?
I will NOT purchase a classic. I hate that pump. I feel like Im chained to my house with it. Its heavy and a pain in the butt to port from one place to another.
With the help of domperidone, around the clock of pumping, various herbs and tinctures - we got 12 ounces of BM in a 24 hour cycle. She never latched on and it was one of the most emotionally painful experience of my life. I had no idea not everyone could breastfeed.
This baby already has a stash of donor milk growing in the freezer.
Side rant:
I dont know how to explain it but the IGT almost messed my relationship up with my daughter. I dont know that the next baby that I will do suck training, syringe feeding, and all of those things. I got the point that I didnt want to hold my daughter because I wasnt able to just love her - I was always working with her. Three weeks into this - my LC noticed I was getting an aversion and she gave us a haberman feeder and wow - I finally could hold her and love her and rock her and feed her without some apparatus.
I already have had my breasts looked at and have been told "very fibrous - not much volume"
I dont know if i will ever forgive myself for not supplementing her from Day One. I starved her and it hurts so bad I did - She is fine now and Ill never forget those dry cries and I could have changed it.
I decided to buy a medical grade pump. For those who have pumped before with a medical grade - would you go with a lactina or an ameda elite?
I will NOT purchase a classic. I hate that pump. I feel like Im chained to my house with it. Its heavy and a pain in the butt to port from one place to another.
With the help of domperidone, around the clock of pumping, various herbs and tinctures - we got 12 ounces of BM in a 24 hour cycle. She never latched on and it was one of the most emotionally painful experience of my life. I had no idea not everyone could breastfeed.
This baby already has a stash of donor milk growing in the freezer.
Side rant:
I dont know how to explain it but the IGT almost messed my relationship up with my daughter. I dont know that the next baby that I will do suck training, syringe feeding, and all of those things. I got the point that I didnt want to hold my daughter because I wasnt able to just love her - I was always working with her. Three weeks into this - my LC noticed I was getting an aversion and she gave us a haberman feeder and wow - I finally could hold her and love her and rock her and feed her without some apparatus.
I already have had my breasts looked at and have been told "very fibrous - not much volume"
I dont know if i will ever forgive myself for not supplementing her from Day One. I starved her and it hurts so bad I did - She is fine now and Ill never forget those dry cries and I could have changed it.
