Breast pumps are usually used for a mother with some medical condition, for an infant with some medical condition, or to achieve personal milk feeding goals in new mothers in the first four months of their motherhood. There are a few benefits of using breast pumps, such as less time consumption, increased milk supply, and benefits for medical conditions. On other hand, it can also cause tissue damage, it causes confusion in the baby when a mother uses breastfeeding and bottle feeding, and for some mothers, it can be painful engorgement.
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How to make my baby to take feed in both the breasts?
Query: Hello doctor, My baby is 7 weeks old and she is on exclusive breastfeeding. She prefers the right breast than the left and cries to latch on the left. So I started to pump and bottle feed from left and direct feed from the right. I pump three to four times a day and make around 100 ml from the left... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. It is normal for a baby that he or she chooses any one side of the breast on its own. But if you feel that your breast lopsided then you need to take some tricks. Start to feed your baby from the small one. Let him suck more and more from the small one. After some da... Read Full »