{"id":9163,"date":"2015-09-24T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2015-09-24T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:11:13","slug":"breastmilk-oversupply-too-much-of-a-good-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/breastmilk-oversupply-too-much-of-a-good-thing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastmilk Oversupply: Too Much of a Good Thing, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doodle was such an easy-going baby, for a while. \u00a0And then he became a screaming, raging lunatic like Sugarplum. \u00a0Hubby and I often talk about when the switch happened and we aren’t really able to pinpoint when or why. \u00a0But as I read back over my post on my breastmilk oversupply<\/a> issue, it brought a little more light to our situation and I’m starting to think that is when his fussiness started.<\/p>\n

I knew coming into life with #4 that we would probably encounter the same issue again after the problems I had with Doodle and realizing that Sugarplum was probably struggling as well and I didn’t know it because hers was less severe. \u00a0So I’ve been watching for the signs with Pipsqueak from the beginning and it didn’t take long for the signs to show up.<\/p>\n

\"breastmilk<\/a><\/p>\n

Within the first week he was having really bad gas, all the time<\/em>! \u00a0I began block feeding when he was 10 days old, doing two feeds per breast as I did with Doodle. \u00a0And while this was the easy solution for Doodle and took care of the gas issue with Pipsqueak, a few days later he was having green poo which are not normal for a breastfed baby.<\/p>\n

So I switched to the other type of block feeding and have been feeding him the same side for about 4 hours before switching. \u00a0The point of block feeding (either method) when dealing with an oversupply is to ensure baby is emptying each breast before switching in order to get the fattier hindmilk because it is a lack of fat in baby’s diet that causes the green stools.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it hasn’t been a cure-all. \u00a0Pipsqueak still has at least one super green stool each day and sometimes\u00a0a few yellow\/green mixed stools as well in addition to some really good yellow, seedy stools as are expected from an exclusively breastfed baby.<\/p>\n

In addition to the breastmilk oversupply, I also have a forceful letdown which Doodle struggled with but Pipsqueak seems to do okay with other than occasionally choking, usually in the middle of a feed when he starts to either doze off or get lazy eating. \u00a0But he’s already showing some of the other signs of a breastmilk oversupply like appearing colicky (his fussy period is usually in the mornings); grunting between feeds; wanting to nurse frequently and feeding for a short time; has a stuffy nose; a lot of wet and messy diapers; and constantly trying to suck on his hands.<\/p>\n

I’m still hoping that my supply will regulate itself and things will even out and my sweet boy will move into a happy breastfed poo phase and I just hope it happens before any of the other effects of breastmilk oversupply set in like spitting up frequently; sensitivity to over stimulation like loud noises or handling by other people; and the one I’m most worried about which is rapid weight gain followed by “falling off” the charts by a few months old which is what all my children have done but it was most noticeable in Sugarplum who gained 3 pounds her first month putting her at 75% then dropping to under 5% by 6 months where she stayed until she was three years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doodle was such an easy-going baby, for a while. \u00a0And then he became a screaming, raging lunatic like Sugarplum. \u00a0Hubby and I often talk about when the switch happened and we aren’t really able to pinpoint when or why. \u00a0But as I read back over my post on my breastmilk oversupply issue, it brought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}