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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
expressing - 12:09 PM
(filed under 'baby')
after a false start late last night when all i could get was a few drops, this morning i managed to express about 15 to 20 millilitres of milk from each breast. that's about one ice cube worth from each boob. i know that because i put it into an ice cube tray. you can keep freshly expressed breast milk frozen for three months, so that's why i put it there.
i've been planning to have some milk ready for shroom to use when we begin to teach riley to drink from a bottle. we both think it'll be nice for shroom to be able to give riley a feed or two sometimes, not only to give me a break if i need one, or to allow me to go out for more than an hour at a time, but just because it's nice to be able to feed him. it's a really lovely experience to feed a baby .. well, when it's your own it is.
they say you should wait until a breast fed baby is six weeks old before you start them on a bottle to avoid what they call nipple confusion. he's almost four weeks old (already!) so i figured i'd better practise expressing some milk & get some frozen for later.
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