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5 common breastfeeding mistakes which can ruin your milk supply

Have you experienced not being able to fully breastfeed your baby? It’s painful.

And perhaps you secretly wish that it won’t happen again with your next baby.

But, have you analyzed what gone wrong? What mistakes did you make, or things that you can fix to make ‘next time’ better?

In this article, I would love to share with you 5 commons breastfeeding mistakes that I did while nursing my first born, which hinders me from exclusively breastfeeding him from the start.

Yeah, perhaps you’ll say: Don’t focus on mistakes. But I believe by identifying the mistakes, you’ll not fall into it again, and you’ll make effort on how to avoid it and how to fix it.

Let the story begins. Here’s my confession…

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by Rina

Medela to Spectra Hack | How to use Medela Breast Flange with Spectra Breast Pump

We love Spectra breast pumps. It has a unique sucking method which mimics baby’s real suckling, leading to a more comfortable pumping experience (and eventually, MORE milk).

However, Spectra brand only has limited size of breast flange: 24, 28, and 32 mm, which is a pain if any of these doesn’t fit you. Me included, I need small size!

Therefore, a lot of moms has been proposing a ‘hack’ to be able to use Medela (which has wider breast shield range) with Spectra.

After trial and error, I found my favourite hack method.

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Medela to Spectra Hack: Want to use Medela breast shield with Spectra breast pump? Check out this super easy hack, that maintains Spectra's closed system and no suction loss.

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by Rina

The best breastfeeding book for increasing milk supply

If I could only choose one BEST breastfeeding book that every nursing mother should have, I would definitely choose this book: ‘a breastfeeding mother’s guide to making more milk’ by Diana West and Lisa Marasco.

This book is a very comprehensive and detailed guide for nursing mothers (or nursing mother to be) as a companion to their breastfeeding journey.

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If you want to increase your milk production, you have to read this book!

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by Rina

How do I know if my baby is getting enough breast milk?

A nursing mom frequently asks this question in the early weeks of breastfeeding. How do I know if my baby is getting enough breast milk?

In bottle feeding, we can easily see how much milk baby is taking. In contrast, measuring breast milk intake is not that straight forward.

Some well-meaning relatives may say, if baby cries after feeding, that means he wants more. If a baby is at the breast all the time, that means you are not producing enough milk. If baby finishes bottle after breastfeeding, that means he does not get adequate breast milk. And the list goes on.

But are those signs really true? Fortunately NO. Yes, your baby may still get enough breast milk even though he behaves like that. [Read more…]

by Rina

3 breast milk pumping tips you need to know

If you read my Philips Avent breast pump reviews, you will know that I am using Avent and Medela Swing simultaneously.

But since I trust my Avent breast pump so much, usually I don’t make full advantage of my Swing. Every pumping session, I simply attach Medela Swing to one breast, turn on the pump, and at the same time working harder (and paying more attention) to the other side where I pump with Avent.

Until last week, when suddenly my Avent suction got weaker and it was unable to extract a lot of milk as usual. It turned out, the diaphragm has torn out, and I didn’t bring any spare!

What to do? Hand expression is certainly not my expertise, and my Swing has been performing poorly. I began imagining that my milk supply would dwindle down quickly and I would no longer able to pump enough milk… [Read more…]