Baby filling up on Foremilk before getting to Hindmilk?

Question

Hi everyone! So I have a situation. My 11 week old has been gaining weight great and we have no health problems whatsoever but I’ve been thinking about her feeding habits. She is exclusively breastfed and she feeds every 1-1.5 hours which is fine except I find I tend to have her strapped to my boobs all day lol. I have a very forceful letdown (she tends to click her tongue and gulp and gasp when my milk lets down) and her stools I’m starting to realize are maybe too liquidy which is why I’m starting to think she might be filling up on foremilk, getting full off that and not getting enough hindmilk which may be why she feeds often and why her stools are more liquid than soupy and sometimes are green. When I pump with my Medela handpump, it does tend to be more thin and watery at first and sometimes it’s thick and yellow! Anyone have any advice? And thank you in advance!

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Try pumping for a minute or two before each feed to draw the fore milk out leaving only the hind milk

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So I would nurse on the same side twice then switch. You can always pump thr other side if you need relief or invest in a haaka.

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I have a forceful let down and you can clamp your breast with your hand to help. If her poop is on the greener side there can be a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance, but it it’s mustard yellow there likely isn’t an imbalance. I usually always nurse on one side to ensure they’re getting enough hindmilk and switch when the next feeding comes because my second baby had major imbalance issue and wasn’t gaining and was so skinny. I’ve been alternating sides with my now 7 months old son and he‘s a chunky baby.

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Do you nurse while reclined? That helped us a lot with my forceful letdown and then I think my Son just kind of grew to deal with it...he was gulping down TONS of milk trying to keep up and then would vomit everywhere. Omg horrible. Do you switch breasts at some point during a feed? I usually would nurse until my son would fall asleep and then offer the second breast. Sometimes he would take it, sometimes he wouldn’t but I always would start the next session with the breast I stopped with (if that makes sense).

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It’s so unlikely that this is the case, honestly.
Loose BM is the norm for breastfeed babies, as long as she’s gaining weight and is content there isn’t an imbalance

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You should feed her the hind milk you pump out with a bottle. This is what happen to my baby, she was only getting the foremilk. I tried giving her a bottle of what I pumped after her feeding and she drank it up so fast and went down for a great nap. I recommend the mam bottle.

Baby filling up on Foremilk before getting to Hindmilk?

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