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How much I should feed my 24 day baby
My baby (male) is 24 days old. Doctor advice to give him 50ml milk in total ( breast milk+ formula aptamil milk) . Formula milk I can measure but how do measure breast milk? Baby suck breast milk for 1 hour as in 30 min each breast. I take out breast milk for 10 min .. 10 ml comes only. How should I know in 1 hour how much milk my baby is getting?. Also how to know if I need to increase my baby milk doses ? Kindly advise 🙏
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Breastfeeding atleast 10-15 min each time
First give breastfeeding then formula milk according to requirement
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Dr. Shikhar Garg
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4 yrs exp
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There are a lot of things to be considered while feeding.
For example, types of milk that come from each breast at a time.
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I believe mothers should be well taught how to breastfeed and how much to do it.
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I'm a breastfeeding consultant. Let me know if you need help.
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