I did some research and I bought Medela SNS from Amazon.com. few weeks ago. Finally it's here.
Supplemental Nursing System - Helps mothers breastfeed adopted babies, helps with relactation, and is useful with premature babies or low milk supply. With an SNS, the baby is supplemented at the breast, maintaining the important physical contact while stimulating your breast to increase your milk supply.
Why it's useful:
- baby receives formula as she nurses
- nursing stimulates milk production
- formula satisfies baby, so she continues to nurse
I'm unable to starve my baby enough so that she is forced to take my breast. I can't bear to see her wailing in hunger but yet I want to give her my milk as best as I can.
I have nothing against formula milk (and I'm still giving). Just that I think breastmilk is the best for baby.
I really should have gotten this way earlier when everyone was telling me that I don't have milk instead of giving baby a bottle. Quote from this site - "Because bottles can weaken the baby’s suck reflex and even lead to early weaning".
I have just started using it. Baby is okay with this, just that in 30 minutes, she merely finishes about 20 ml of milk and keeps falling asleep at my breast. Because FM can only tahan for 1 hour, I have to quickly transfer the remaining to a bottle and let her finish her milk. On top of usual pumping, I am using this SNS in the day time, which means feeding time is lengthened. More things to wash and sterilise and lesser resting time.
- - - I found one very useful link here on extra tips on how to use the SNS. Haven't read in detailed yet. But perhaps it can explain why baby is drinking so slowly even with the fastest flowing tube.
- - - I found one very useful link here on extra tips on how to use the SNS. Haven't read in detailed yet. But perhaps it can explain why baby is drinking so slowly even with the fastest flowing tube.
Yesterday, baby seems to be confused. When I bottle feed her, she keeps turning her head towards my breast and sometimes, pushing out the bottle teat and turning her head left and right (seems uncomfortable or uneasy). She also cries a little when drinking milk from a bottle from time to time. Is that what they call nipple confusion?
To avoid this is not to let mommy bottlefeed her so that when baby comes to mommy it is only latching. But I am unable to resolve this because I am the 99% caretaker of baby. If hubby is around, he manages to help for 1 feed in a day.
I did cup feed and syringe feed baby when she was 1 month old. It was too late when I implement it and has caused her much misery. She would yell down the house. She'd rather be hungry and yell than to take milk from cup or syringe.
That is why... there is this warning on all infant formulas to say that if you want to breastfeed, don't introduce bottles to baby and World Health Organisation recommends total breastfeeding for a period of 6 months. That's also the reason why all milk companies don't give free samples for babies less than 6 months old. Even online purchasing of milk is for 6 months and above. They seem to make it less easy for people to buy milk powder for infants online.
Ok shall stop here, lest I go into the emo mode again.
