Breastfeeding Issues: When To Supplement a Breastfed Baby
Most breastfeeding mamas can produce enough milk to completely meet their baby's nutritional needs through their first four to six months, but sometimes breastfeeding issues make it is necessary for a breastfed baby to have supplemental feedings. Here are a few examples of breastfeeding issues that might necessitate that:
- If your baby is at risk of developing severe hypoglycemia or has hypoglycemia that is not improving with breastfeeding.
If breastfeeding is interrupted temporarily, you or your partner may feed your baby using a cup, spoon, or dropper, or by attaching a lactation device to your finger until you can put her back to the breast. Some babies will not resume breastfeeding once they've learned that there's less work in extracting food from a bottle than a breast. Because different methods are used for breastfeeding and bottle-feeding, some babies may forget how to latch on to a breast after they've been been fed from a bottle.
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