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Posted on January 23, 2007

We are currently struggling right now with breastfeeding. I say we because it has been a team effort so far, Me, Mateo, and Ramil. Mateo has successfully fed from me yesterday. Or so I thought.

Whenever he wakes up, it's usually because he's hungry. He usually wakes up every 2 hours more or less. He would cry, indicating that he is hungry. I've been trying to let him feed directly from me since the other day but I've been having problems satisfying his hunger. Ramil ends up making him around 2 oz. of formula milk after 10-15 minutes of trying to feed from me. I really don't know whether he is getting a lot of milk from those 10-15 minutes. Maybe the problem is my milk supply? or the way he's been suckling is not very effective in terms of getting the milk? Maybe it's both because he has developed a lazy habit of letting the milk flow into his mouth whenever he is drinking from his bottle and his milk intake seems to increase every day! Whenever I pump, I usually get 50-60 ml of breastmilk, or almost 2 oz. I am still fixed on the idea of feeding him 100% breastmilk so right now, I try to pump as much as I can so that we have breastmilk to give him after feeding from me. I guess it will be a test of wills as early as now. Hehe!

More on my breastfeeding situation later, gotta go pump.

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