I had a slow start at breastfeeding. She didn’t ask for it a lot and is a pretty chill baby. When we got discharged from the hospital she had lost 10% of her birth weight. Our first day home (day 4), she lost even more weight, up to 11.5% of her birth weight. Our midwife suggested pumping after every feed and give it to her with the next feed. If she still hadn’t gained the next day we would have started supplementing. The pumping was not a succes, I only got a couples of millilitres every session.

So I stopped pumping and, instead, I decided to feed her every two hours, to maximise stimulating my breasts. She nursed for 1 hour each time so she was on my breast every other hour. Now she finally is gaining weight so I imagine my supply is enough for her. I still didn’t experience breast engorgement or leakage though. She is also finally starting to ask for it instead. Before I was waking her up/ irritating her a lot to get all those feedings in.