A customer recently wrote this email to us...
"We are having a foster child come into our care and i am
planning to breast feed him. I still am able to express
a tiny bit of milk from one of my breasts and am wondering the best
way to go about inducing lactation for the foster baby.
Should I pump lots of times daily before he arrives or use
the Supplemental Nutrition
System when he arrives? or both? What would you
recommend?"
Well firstly, Good One!! What a legend this lady is
for trying to do this, to give the foster baby her breastmilk.
In this situation, we would suggest that she pumps about
every 4 hours for a few weeks before the baby arrives. Then when
the baby does arrive, the supplemental nutrition system would
be the ideal way to get him to latch to her breast while being
rewarded with milk. This would also stimulate more milk
flow.
For the breast pump,
since it is one that she will be using quite frequently, we
recommend either the Avent Electric or the Medela
Swing.
The Swing is slightly better, as it has a two phase method
of working to firstly stimulate letdown and then a longer slower
motion to mimic baby drinking.
Both of these pumps are really quiet too.
A doctor could also prescribe some Domperidone to get your
breasts producing milk.