Breastfeeding: Part-time or on demand?

If breast-feeding should be at the request of infant or follow the times is the question that a mother will certainly be the first child. And all those that have passed have an answer but the answer we have also grandmothers and mother in law, pediatricians and obstetricians, nurses and experienced on and off line. The truth is that breast-feeding following a schedule is essential if you use the formula, why should not exceed the recommended dose while the pediatrician on the mother’s milk, it can give at will.

The difficulty is not so much the method but how you feel more comfortable. Sometimes you feel exhausted and with the feeling of having been at the breast all day, almost without pause, that I (and many friends) called the syndrome of “milk cow”. The advice I have received more sensible and less a harbinger of guilt was: especially in the beginning, the first few weeks, try to give him milk when you think it feels like, and then on request.

When you understand your and your routine, try to verify the time between feedings and the other, if you want, stiracchiale a bit ‘, up to 3 hours between the rich feeding the other baby should feel comfortable. The secret is not to want to persist in a solution by force, even if the mother-in-law advocates with the words “look like they came up for my kids, poop every 3 hours” or “be careful with all these feeds that he began to spoil.” The important thing is to listen to sensible voices and understanding at this very early and delicate stage of motherhood.