Block nursing

Today I have been keeping an eye on the little milk spills from my baby’s mouth and they all  looked like foremilk. 12 hours on the same breast didn’t work! 😦 He is starving and my breast feels totally empty so I have to move him to the next breast. And I supposed he gets more foremilk again at the start of breastfeeding. I start to wondered perhaps I have not been nursing him long enough. Could this be the reason for not getting to the hind milk? Usually it’s by Cub’s cue that he’s off the breast. If I keep him too long on the breast, he would clamp me hard to stop the flow. Or he ends up falling asleep on the breast using me as a pacifier or the milk starts to drip off his mouth.

However after a phone conversation with my girlfriend, she reminds me that I should keep in mind that the wide variation of “how” the breastmilk looks doesn’t reflect on its composition, so how could I tell if my baby is accessing the hindmilk.

That brings me back to the usual suspect which is the oversupply issue. So is the block feeding working for my baby? My mum claimed she heard the fluid movement when the cub is crying for his feed around 8:45pm. Is this the sound of the gas buildup? So far today my baby seems to be hungry every two hours or so but I haven’t any ‘draws up his legs’ act and the poo is not as green and explosive as the day before.

Good news is he did not struggle as much in today’s nursing sessions so the block nursing must have work. Perhaps I should reduce it to 6 hours period.