my milk started coming in and the engorgement was really painful..i tried to express with a manual breast pump but it was painful and only some amount came out..so i resorted to hand expression...i needed a relieving massage by my tukang urut but she was away until tuesday...
i put the warm pack and cold pack interchangeably to relieve the painful engorgement..i even asked for help from KK, my breastfeeding sifu and she was very kind to give me the epsom salt to relieve the engorgement...it relieved a bit but didn't help much... i needed to find other tukang urut to help me solved the problem...the left breast was quite manageable but the right one was severely engorged and edematous...i tried to find the tukang urut online and found one at section 3 bukit mahkota...baby ahmad was unable to latch on properly and suck well and we were afraid he would go into hypoglycemia again..
since everybody else was not at home, it was just me, dear hubby and the kids, i drove myself to the tukang urut's house...she massaged the engorged breast and it helped to relieve the engorgement...at home, baby ahmad was not passing motion that much, his stool was greenish indicating that he was getting more of the foremilk than the hindmilk...his urine was not that much too and he started to have tinge of jaundice...i really hope that this breastfeeding issues will settle fast and baby ahmad will get the correct proportion of breast milk and is able to breastfeeding well...
besides that, i realized that baby ahmad has difficulty to get his first latch on the breast at every feeding time...sometimes he pushed me hard with his hand and extended his neck as if he refused to latch...but once he got it right, he will start sucking and swallowing the milk in a perfect rhythm... he is probably still learning to breastfeed efficiently...probably i should give him more time...
did i tell you that baby ahmad was born with long fingernails on both hands..? probably that what caused the sharp pain i experienced during pregnancy, he was scratching my uterus...just kidding..i cut his fingernails today so that it won't hurt him and anybody else..
besides that, i realized that baby ahmad has difficulty to get his first latch on the breast at every feeding time...sometimes he pushed me hard with his hand and extended his neck as if he refused to latch...but once he got it right, he will start sucking and swallowing the milk in a perfect rhythm... he is probably still learning to breastfeed efficiently...probably i should give him more time...
did i tell you that baby ahmad was born with long fingernails on both hands..? probably that what caused the sharp pain i experienced during pregnancy, he was scratching my uterus...just kidding..i cut his fingernails today so that it won't hurt him and anybody else..
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| look at those nails... |
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| already cut.. |
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