While nursing my 2nd child (my first boy).  He had a tremendous suck.  And
boy would he guzzle, I guess because of my very strong MER.  He would take
all of the let down in a matter of minutes (seconds?), release and within a
few seconds spit everything back up on me, I had to nurse with a bath towel
in my lap and across the front of me.  Then he would settle in and nurse
quietly on the other side for a few more minutes and then quit, usually
needing a pacifier for more sucking.

I never could achieve that 10 minutes per side thing.  And he gained like a
champ.

  At 6 months, after discontinuing 3 months of mother in law help(?), we
started at daycare.  I would leave 3 8-oz bottles of formula, (I now know
this was too much but I was not sure what he would need.)  He could empty
one of those bottles in 2 minutes flat!  The daycare workers were always
amazed. Then they would give him baby food or the daycare baby menu.  No
wonder he didn't need me. He was stuffed after 9 hours of gorging.

The daycare loved timing his bottlefeeds.  (Bottles were the J&J
Healthflow,when they first came out in '94.)

Cheryl

P.S. If you're wondering why I left formula it was because my entire store
of Breastmilk was gone because MIL gave him everything stored in the first 3
months and my employer wouldn't let me pump.  I have learned a lot since,
then, my 3rd born never got a drop of formula I had much more stored and
would nurse him at the daycare at lunch times.  (The 1st born,also,received
no formula for I didn't return to work with her.)

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