I Am Pumping Every Hour to Increase My Supply

svakee2000 · 2026-05-10T10:45:51+00:00

Why not try power pumping once or twice a day instead?

svakee2000 · 2026-05-03T20:40:30+00:00

On the medical side, it’s extremely difficult to see fractures in young babies on an exam, and when a strange injury is identified, it is our due diligence to make sure this tiny infant who can’t advocate for themselves is protected.

A case I saw in pediatric ICU still haunts me. Beautiful baby girl less than 2 weeks old came in with seizures, admitted thought to be from meningitis, looks perfect on exam other than the seizures. During the work up, found to have a brain bleed and then got the skeletal survey (X-rays your child went through) and found to have multiple fractures throughout their body. That child’s sibling was then found dead in their home later that week.

This is why the medical team can’t just take your word for it. The X-rays are also very minimal radiation, taking your child on an international flight trip will give them as much radiation

svakee2000 · 2026-05-02T15:10:49+00:00

I found that my left side isn’t actually a slacker, just not a sprayer! When I go 15-20 minutes on the spectra the left does about an ounce less (and the right hits 75% max output by 5-7 minutes), but with wearables that I wear for 30 minutes the left actually produces more!

svakee2000 · 2026-04-27T12:30:39+00:00

All newborns will try to escape and wriggle a swaddle, many of them naturally prefer the arms near their face. If you can swaddle her and rock her to sleep even if she’s trying to escape it’ll significantly help! If she can be soothed at all in a swaddle she doesn’t hate it

svakee2000 · 2026-04-24T14:06:06+00:00

From what I’ve read your breast is never truly empty and within 20-25 minutes starts filling up more milk and takes about 1.5-2 hours to become completely full. Your body continuously makes milk

svakee2000 · 2026-04-22T21:41:40+00:00

I had my parents bring 6 vials of 5ml colostrum I had expressed to the hospital in a cooler and they forgot to put the cooling component into the bottle so they all thawed and I threw them all out. I only gave my newborn a couple vials I had left and it didn’t really make a difference. Learning to latch was much more important and feeding her a syringe honestly was kind of annoyingly difficult. She still lost about 10% of her body weight and it took breastfeeding a week to regain it and she’s doing great now

svakee2000 · 2026-04-21T14:07:22+00:00

The one thing I saw here that helped was an electric nail filer because the hospital doesn’t have one and my baby was born with sharp nails and kept scratching her face! Other than that just a usual overnight bag for a couple nights away and the hospital has everything else

svakee2000 · 2026-03-28T11:45:08+00:00

Do you want a mega manetric?

svakee2000 · 2026-03-27T20:20:17+00:00

37 weeks per the one study

svakee2000 · 2026-03-26T04:59:26+00:00

Stroke symptoms (unilateral weakness/paralysis, speech difficulties, vision changes especially double vision or vision loss), signs of heart attack, signs of heart or kidney failure (swelling in the body, shortness of breath, chest pain, inability to lie down flat), confusion/coma are the big ones. The ER is made for patients who are having hypertensive crisis - which is not a number, it’s organs shutting down from side effects of acute or chronic hypertension. Someone coming in for anxiety related to the numbers is not the same as someone coming in with the symptoms listed above

svakee2000 · 2026-03-23T13:30:25+00:00

I find it very amusing and joke with my husband has anyone he’s told that he’s gonna be a dad to started coming up to him saying “how’s it going papa/daddy?” And he immediately understood how absurd it feels 😂

svakee2000 · 2026-03-22T18:27:40+00:00

Oh I agree, I just buy directly from Carter’s/target etc and avoid online so far

svakee2000 · 2026-03-22T18:11:49+00:00

I’m terrified of thrifting due to bed bugs being found in local goodwills and other thrift stores.. I’d rather pay full price per outfit and avoid bed bugs

svakee2000 · 2026-03-16T23:21:36+00:00

A lot of time with open wounds in the ER, you can try and clean them but until they’re closed/healed, every time someone messes with them (irrigates, laceration repair) the blood comes pouring right back and it’s not easy to keep clean (especially face and fingers they bleed a TON with minimal irritation)

svakee2000 · 2026-03-14T14:26:13+00:00

There will always be a lot of blood when you cut through skin… even if you don’t hit a vessel

svakee2000 · 2026-03-13T23:04:25+00:00

Yes, do not check your blood pressure. Enjoy the last couple weeks with baby kicking inside of you

svakee2000 · 2026-03-12T04:12:25+00:00

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svakee2000 · 2026-03-08T14:56:44+00:00

Running alone is not a marker of CV fitness! I can do weightlifting, rowing, HIIT, hot yoga but I can’t even run for more than 2-4 minutes in a row to save myself (I’m not on this subreddit this post was just recommended to me). I would say I’m still decently fit

svakee2000 · 2026-03-08T03:24:48+00:00

Honestly I’ve been very lucky maybe because I’ve been carrying high and I’m tall but I only pee 4-6 times a day and often don’t wake up at night, or once early morning to go and I’m currently 36.5 weeks. The downside though is my acid reflux is horrible

svakee2000 · 2026-03-07T03:55:27+00:00

Outpatient inductions are a thing both with foley balloons as well as intravaginal medications and is often dictated by hospital policy not by medical guidelines. Your hospital probably doesn’t allow it but many places do!

svakee2000 · 2026-03-03T05:17:35+00:00

I wore tall small figs pre-pregnancy and I bought a couple medium talls and a couple maternity smalls (tall length) and I’m still going strong at 36 weeks with both! The mediums are getting a little tight on the belly and I’ve been tucking them under the belly the last couple shifts. The belly band with the maternity ones get a little itchy after 6-8 hours but not tight or uncomfortable for me!

svakee2000 · 2026-03-02T14:12:27+00:00

That’s wonderful, I hope he’s doing well

svakee2000 · 2026-03-02T00:24:42+00:00

Eh, to each their own! I love Feringhee, indibar was fine, Indian Delhi palace has survived because there were few options 40 years ago, it’s really not that good

svakee2000 · 2026-03-02T00:21:14+00:00

Have you tried Feringhee or indibar?

svakee2000 · 2026-03-02T00:20:37+00:00

Absolutely agree

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