Exclusive breastfeeding for Naomi

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Human breast milk is surely one of the best gifts god gives us as there are so many benefit that we can get by giving breast milk exclusively for at least 6 month to our baby. Those benefits are enhancing baby’s natural body immune, minimizing the allergic risk and asthma, stimulating baby’s IQ, making a strong bond between mom and the baby and many more benefits. It would be a great loss if we can’t give this precious food fully to our child for some reasons. Giving Breast milk exclusively means we give the right start for a human life.


Before having a child I was blind with all these issue but thank god when I got pregnant for my first baby (arya) I kept receiving advises from friends( breast milk warrior, I called them). They always say “ your child is not a calf!” don’t feed your baby with cows milk. They also kept informing me about the great benefit of breast milk could offer for us. Everyday I could see those moms struggle to pump their milk and safe them so they can give it later to their precious baby. Ever since I promise myself that I will work on this big project and I was so excited!!!

When I have Naomi ( my second baby) I promised my self that I will revise my previous project and will make this one a lot better. For arya I only could give breast milk for 6 months and after that I had to mix it with formula milk. For Naomi I wish I can pass the 6 months program and moving on to MPASI) therefore I have prepared myself with a better strategy in stocking the breast milk for my baby.

When Naomi was born and diagnosed with T21 , I was still “fine” because I haven’t seen the chromosome test result.  The only thing that worried me was she couldn’t suck my nipple for a proper feeding and she seemed to get tired and fell asleep. At the end I had to add up her intake food by giving extra breast mild besides her regular schedule by using spoon. To finish 20-30 cc milk could take around 30 minutes. It is because Naomi was having trouble in sucking and swallowing. I found out using spoon was also did only a small favor for this case as the milk spill all over her mouth. Then I met Mba Pia, the mom of the beautiful alysha. Seeing alysha growing so well gave me extra spirits that I can raise Naomi just like her. Mba Pia gave me a tip. she advise me to use dropper for more effective feeding . Ever since the feeding session was no longer that difficult though it still took a while for Naomi to swallow the food.

How about breast milk supply? well I can say I m quite successful in keeping my supply for Naomi. 25 bottle @125 ml. I still can add the supply up to 34 bottle by the time I had to get back to work. Wow.. not so bad for a stressful mom rite? Do you know the secret? a sentence that I got from GD. U have to know the why… yup.. we MUST know the reason why breast milk is the best food for babies and it is urgent to be done once you have a baby, unless god tell us something different. Naomi’s presence even making breast milk more urgent to give to her and I am so aware to keep my supply for my precious Naomi.

Now we get to my closing paragraph… Naomi used the dropper until she was 2 mos after that she was strong enough to suck from a bottle or straight from my breast. till now, (Naomi 10 mos) still depend on breast milk and solid food and without cow’s milk. I do hope everything will run well until she is 2 yo because I have promised myself, no cow’s milk for Naomi. wanna know why? I will write it later