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Breastfeeding with a Supplemental Nursing System (SNS) by guest blogger Jessica

Jessica breastfeeding with a supplemental nursing system (SNS)I tried so very hard to keep her just breastfed, but I didn’t have enough tissue. She dropped her birth weight and for almost 4 weeks continued to be underweight. I was forced to start supplementing.  So while I worked on building my milk up (while everyone around me told me I was killing my baby by not just putting her on a bottle.) I used a supplement feeding device to keep her at my breast and to stimulate more milk production by sucking.

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