My nipples have recovered. Since then, I've been putting Joanne to my breasts for her feeds, only pumping once a day at 11pm, giving her a bottle after I've pumped.
I discovered why she was so frustrated initially.
1. She was genuinely hungry.
For newborns, hunger kicks in on the third day. I remembered on my third day at TMC, I was breastfeeding Jo almost every other hour and my milk supply had just come in. She would only stop "screaming" after the nurse gave her some of my expressed breast-milk (ebm) which I pumped out to relieve the engorgement pain.
2. My milk supply was not established.
3. Milk flow was not fast enough.
Jo must be so hungry that her stomach was not filled fast enough to satisfy her.
Thank god for my sore, cracked, bleeding nipples that I had to resort to full-time pumping. The pumping process helped my nipples to recover. It helped to establish my milk supply and initiate the flow. Lucky for me, there was no nipple confusion. It's so much easier to latch Jo on. In fact, the flow can be too fast at times that it "chokes" her.
Oh, I mentioned in my last post on Breastfeeding that I was running out of freezer space to store frozen ebm. I have donated my excess frozen ebm to a pair of premature twins. They were borned at week 26 and are about 5-6 months old now. If you have excess frozen ebm and would like to help the twins, please leave your email address on the comments page. I'll provide the contact person and number.
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