Exclusive Pumping

Hi dear mummies, hope you can help me with two questions: 1) will exclusive pumping reduce breast milk if you do not direct latch? 2) my child will cry terribly whenever he direct latch as the milk supply is low, is there any way i can latch him better? He will only wake up when he is hungry for milk and I couldn’t tease him to be awake to latch. 3) he drinks bottle fed formula milk + my 40ml express breastmilk at different feeding intervals.. is it ok if he drinks two hourly sometimes instead of three hours? He seems hungry very fast. He is four days only, thank you!

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Exclusive pumping should be able to help you keep up the supply as long as you do it regularly. Yes, babies get angry when they’re hungry and your milk supply isn’t a lot yet, so topping up with formula may help to keep baby full and less angry. But if you’re planning to continue latching on, I would encourage you to keep letting baby latch and suck after you give some formula, because the sucking will help bring in the milk supply. And yes, at this age, feed on demand. My baby sometimes feeds every 30min-1 hour when she’s cluster feeding. Don’t wait till 3 hrs.

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