When to start pumping breast milk after baby is born
Pregnancy & Childbirth : When to Start Pumping Breast Milk
I'm Josie minks number the labor and
delivery nurse in Austin Texas and I'm
here to talk about when to start pumping
breast milk and really after you deliver
the baby you can start pumping
immediately and when you when you either
breastfeed or pump and it stimulates a
hormone called oxytocin that creates
more colostrum and more breast milk and
so the more that you pump or the more
that you breastfeed the more milk that
you'll produce and your milk will come
in about two to four days after you
deliver the baby assuming that your that
you're pumping or breastfeeding every
and three to four hours and then a lot
of women like to start breast pumping
before they go to work and so it's
recommended it that you start breast
pumping about three weeks before you
decide to go back to work so that you
can store up in your freezer some
reserves of breast milk and and then
that doesn't necessarily mean that you
have to feed the baby a bottle you can
use SNS which is supplemental nursing
system and which is like a little tube
that that has the milk flow in through
it that attaches to your breast and so
it's the breast milk that you've already
pumped but it's just not coming through
your actual breast it's coming through a
tube into the baby's mouth as he or she
is sucking and and that is when you can
start pumping breast milk
