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When a milk top-up is necessary (supplementing)

When a milk top-up is necessary (supplementing)

Sometimes babies need additional milk, but many get “little top-ups” or are supplemented when they don’t need it. Supplementing milk is mostly associated with artificial milk, which can create problems for breastfeeding. Today, we will talk about supplementing additional milk to breastfeeding, when a milk top-up is necessary, if it is needed, and the best options of how to give them. What are “top-ups”, and what is supplementing? These are variable amounts of milk, which are given to the baby…

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My exclusive pumping with my two babies

My exclusive pumping with my two babies

“Before becoming pregnant I had already been reading about breastfeeding, but I had read little about offering expressed breast milk until we were told that we were going to be parents of two babies. Researching about tandem breastfeeding, I began to see things about pumped breast milk, especially to give a little break to the mother with two babies. At that time I didn’t completely rule out this possibility, but I did continue to be in the lead in doing…

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Exclusive pumping

Exclusive pumping

There are multiple circumstances in which a mother decides to choose exclusive pumping instead of breastfeeding directly; this means expressing her milk either manually or mechanically and offering it to the baby in a bottle or other container. It can make it easier for you to know more about it and some situations that can occur when you consider this option. Is breastfeeding directly the same thing as giving expressed milk with a bottle? We could say that offering expressed…

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