>
>
> << Today mom tells me she pumps out
> and baby takes about 3 - 3.5 ounces per feed in bottle, but when she bf mom
> feels baby gets only 1 or 2 ounces. She has to pump the rest to feel
> "drained." She feels that the baby is "biting her" into the feeding. This
> still points to me that the baby is not effectively latched or in some way
> not milking the breast. >>
>
> Test weighing (not debating its use!) has shown that mothers and observers
> are often wrong about how much milk babies take at the breast.
> mother is not supplementing at the breast (*if* supplements are really
> needed), since her nipples are healing well. Is she fearful of putting the
> baby to breast due to past trauma?
>

  Hey, one or two ounces isn't bad. And if she does not want to supplement at the
breast for some reason, couldn't she finger or cup feed? I find cup feeding a good
way to eliminate the kind of clamping she might be describing.
Jo-Anne in Fredricton

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