Parenting experience

At first your newborn and you should get to know each other, and get used to each other’s needs. From the first day the best thing you can do is nurse as often as you think your baby wants it. It will probably wary from every hour to every three or four hours. If your baby is under the expected weight nurse it at least every two hours. You’ll see how the baby will progress. In the first few weeks the most important thing is to maintain constant milk flow from your breasts, and the only way to do it is to nurse your baby often enough. After your breastfeeding settles, and you feel relaxed having enough milk before each feeding, try programming each feeding at a certain time so your baby can adjust to it with ease.

The minimum time between each feeding should be at least 45 minutes, and ideally 1 and a half to three hours. Some newborns tend to suckle “all the time”. And some mothers lose their patience, feeling it is too much for them. Give yourself and your child some time to adjust.
Try expanding the time between the feeding gradually to at least 1 and a half hour. It is important for their small stomachs to rest for a while.
During the night if you feel that your baby is overfeeding, and having hard time to digest so much milk, let your baby rest for a while, even though it is crying, and you feel bad about it.
All new habits need time to be accepted. Try scheduling breastfeeding and hopefully your baby will accept the new scheme. This means that the last feeding should be somewhere from 23.00h to 24.00h (11pm to midnight), and the next one around 4 am. These time schedules are just for orientation, and not to be implied strictly. Such nursing habits should be expected from babies at least 2 months old.

The most important thing is not to feel out of control, everything is normal, no need to panic, ask for help if you feel you can’t deal with it yourself.
In the first 30 days if anything goes wrong with your breastfeeding it can be corrected! So don’t lose hope.
If you are producing too much milk store the extra quantity in the freezer it will come handy.

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