hi xueling, welcome! it's actually not necessary to express if you're available to latch ur baby on all the time. we're storing just in case. I even had to throw away a lot of my milk that has expired. tip on expressing: it's usually better to express while u're feeding ur boy at the same time, so that you can take advantage of the letdown. but won't work if ur baby empties both breasts at each feeding. Else u can express 1 hr after ur boy finishes his feed. Cos if u express right after the feed, u won't get a letdown easily. If he tends to sleep halfway through feeding, wake him up by burping him, stroking, or changing his diaper (or even just opening up the diaper). some babies just want the sucking comfort to fall asleep. tried pacifiers? what i do is to let him suck his pacifier, then carry him in cradle position n rock him to sleep.
re: baby weight
my boy is on TBF, but already 6.8kg at 3 mths loh.. think coming 4 months this weekend, maybe 7.5kg already.. haha... but he hasn't learnt to flip!! haiz...
seabreeze, take care of yourself. I'm fortunate that both my grandmothers (one of whom i'm closer to) are still healthy, but my grandfather is suffering from ill health and recently, dermentia (shi yi zheng). He doesn't recognise family members any more. Guess sheng lao bing si is a fact of life, and what we can do is to treasure the times we have with them.
