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Date: | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:47:37 EST |
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Hi Alexis.
I had this problem by the end of each of my kids' first years. As long as I
thought about what I was doing, the baby, the pumping process, nursing, etc,
the breasts just clammed up. All of the conventional advice about smelling
the baby's t-shirt, etc -- all of which did generally work in the immediate
postpartum period -- just made it even harder to stimulate MER while pumping
as they got a wee bit older.
The only thing that worked was *strong* distraction. In my case the most
helpful thing was to get my husband to read something truly outrageous from
the newspaper. If he could distract me for even 3 minutes I was gushing --
this after sometimes a full half hour with barely drops at the bottom of the
pump-bottles. Sometimes when I was pumping at work I would take work calls
on the speaker phone (especially close colleagues who wouldn't freak out if
they heard the whoosh-whoosh of the pump in the background!) and that would
distract me well, too.
The other thing I would add is that someone recently posted about sites for
stimulating let=down being both the nipples *and the breast-chest-wall*.
Maybe everybody but me already realized this?? But I hadn't, and it has
made a HUGE difference to ease of stimulating MER when pumping. I still
massage to get individual ducts to clear, after MER, but to stimulate the
reflex I am finding this much more effective than massage, shaking, etc.
(Whoever posted this, thank you!)
Elisheva Urbas, NYC
researching in bf lab 12 times a day :)
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