Just want to share abour my past experience. During the 1st month of bfeeding, I didn't have enough supply. Here are some of the things that can be done:
<font color="0000ff">1) Latch on properly. Follow this video for info:
http://www.ameda.com/community/videos.aspx. If baby not satisfied I will top up with 2oz of FM
2) At times I do mix FM (mix FM with the right amount of water first) with expressed BM
3) Latch on one side while pumping the other side to stimulate milk flow. After baby taken the second side and not satisfied, I will give the expressed BM that I've just extracted while feeding.
4) It's okay to feed more then one time each breast.
Here's a chart of how much baby needs <font color="ff0000">each feed</font> according to age (info is from the book Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, page 69):
3 days.....1oz (30ml)
1 week.....1.5oz (45ml)
2 weeks.... 2-2.5oz (60-75ml)
1 month.... 3-4oz (90-120ml)
During 1st day, a newborn's stomach is about the size of a marle. At each feeing he can keep down about one-sixth to one-third of an ounce )5-10ml). Not surprisingly, this is the amount of available colostrum, the early milk, that is ready and waiting for him in the breast.
Not only are newborn stomachs small, but they don't expand like adult stomatchs, especially in the first day. In one study, Samuel Zangen and his colleagues found that during the first days of life, a newborn's stomach stay firm, expelling extra milk rather than stretching out to hold it. B 3 days of age, as baby takes more and more of these small, frequent feedings, his stomach can expand to about the size of a shooter marble to hold more milk.</font>
