Breastfeeding Mothers !
Planning a Return
To Work or School?

$45.00-1 hour
To reserve your private-class time
email Sharon, or call (972) 495-2805

• Set your work and home agenda
• Focus on your specific needs
• Avoid reduced milk supply
• Be prepared for the unexpected

* Breast Pumps demonstration

* Choosing the appropriate pump for you

* Tailored time-management techniques

* Preparing your baby's new caregiver

* Adjustment tips for mothers-fathers-babies

* Individualizing your work to home schedule

* Breastmilk: pumping - storing - freezing

* Weaning achieved with comfort and security

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Tip of the Month

FROM FORBES.COM:

"When breastfeeding mothers return to work, they should do so gradually" ...says the Baylor College of Medicine.

"By initially taking one day off a week, your body will get used to being back at work. Too much - too soon and you're likely to see your milk supply decrease, because of the stress of working full time and caring for your child when you get home. To help keep your milk flowing, nurse more often in the evenings and on weekends. It's also a good idea to have a supply of frozen breast milk on hand."

"RECIPE" FOR PUMPING SUCCESS WHEN SEPARATION IS
ANTICIPATED (A sample schedule to consider)

BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR PUMPING CAREER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND:

~ Morning pumpings [Any time after having had a "long" stretch of sleep] will yield the most milk, whether pumping at home or at work.

~ The amount of milk yielded when you pump regularly during the day will decline as the day goes on.

~ Most women find they remove more milk from one breast than from the other. This is normal for most women.

~ When increasing the milk volume pumped at a particular feeding, you will need to pump several days in a row, during the same time period, before seeing the expected
increase in amount.

Experience shows It is preferable to wait until your baby is around 3 weeks
of age to begin your regular practicing with the pump 1- 2 times a day. You
will very soon be collecting milk to save for your baby!

TO COLLECT MILK FOR A SCHEDULED SEPARATION:

• Nurse baby well on one side between 5 A.M. and 8 A.M.
  Pump the other side for approximately 10 minutes.
  Then nurse the baby on the pumped side, further draining the breast.
  
  
• Refrigerate or freeze the milk. [see Milk Storage.doc]
  
  
• Later in the morning, about one and a half hours after a feeding
  or during the baby's nap, Pump both breasts.
  
  
• Chill this milk, add it to the milk already refrigerated, then
  freeze the container. If you froze the milk you collected earlier,
  freeze this portion separately, or chill it before adding it to the
  frozen milk. Do not add warm milk to chilled or frozen milk.
  
  
• You have finished pumping for the day. For the rest of the day,
  just take care of yourself and your baby.
  
  
• Assuming you collect 3 to 4 ounces of milk per day, pumping twice a day
  for three weeks will put 63 to 84 ounces of milk in your freezer before you
  return to work. With practice, you may soon be able to pump as much as 8 ounces in a day. At that rate, in three weeks you can collect 164 ounces!

A Typical Day of Pumping and Nursing for a Mother
of a 4-Month-Old

05:00 a.m. -- Nurse (and sleep)
06:00 a.m. -- Pump both breasts. Yield: 2 to 4 ounces, to be saved for the
following day or take to day care that morning.
08:15 a.m. -- Nurse briefly at day care.
10:30 a.m. -- Pump for 15 minutes at work. Yield: 3 to 5 ounces.
03:30 p.m. -- Pump for 15 minutes at work. Yield: 5 to 7 ounces.
05:30 p.m. -- Nurse briefly at day care.
06:00 p.m. -- Nurse longer at home.
09:00 p.m. -- Nurse.
01:00 a.m. -- Nurse (and sleep)
05:00 a.m. -- Nurse (and sleep)

Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Karen Pryor, Harvard Common Press, 1997