u/WitchSmiles

Hello! My baby is nearly 5 months old and he has been diagnosed with severe hearing loss in one ear. His other ear has excellent hearing.

The audiologist gave us a hearing aid. This brings his hearing in the side with loss to about 40ish percent. He can now hear maybe murmurs instead of nothing at all on that side. Despite us asking, the audiologist hasn’t given us a ton of reasoning why the hearing aid is important beyond language delays… our baby is so talkative and ahead of milestones in this area and I just can’t see this being a problem. The aid is, long story short, frustrating to keep in my baby’s ear for many reasons. How important is this aid, truly? We got so much branded marketing material and learned that the audiologist gets commission on sales and we feel much more skeptical for this reason. My mother has single sided deafness and she does well with it, and tells me not to worry about a hearing aid for my baby until he’s in school. What are your thoughts?

Hello! I can’t seem to figure out why I get so much more milk when i pump less. I wondered if someone knew? I have some theories, and before you ask, I’ve been doing 5 pumps per day for about three weeks now and my supply has remained the same.

So what is it? Is it that I’m getting “let downs” between pumping and theres more available milk? Or something like that? I just can’t seem to understand it beyond there being milk that’s just more accessible to the pump the more time goes on. Thank you for any insight!!

EDIT: oops should have mentioned I am 4 months 3 weeks pp!

EDIT: Also, I am inquiring because I would be interested in going to 4 ppd in the future but would like to better understand the mechanics of the less pumping more milk thing before I go there. I am always worried about my supply! It’s been a hard journey to get to where I am oz-wise and was an under-supplier for months pp. Thank You All!