file Breastfeeding being downplayed

16 years 2 months ago #87981 by Mia_HannahsMommy
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I'm all for breastfeeding.

My two experiences are on the Breastfeeding Week thread.

I still feel like crying because I was just not able to breastfeed Hannah for long enough (in my opinion) and also tried all concoctions, but between my work schedule at work and not being able to pump and finishing my studies after hours and weekends, I think the stress was just too much, plus Mia was in hospital and I was just a stress bucket which compounded the problem.

Mia I breastfed until she literally pushed me away each time I tried at a year and 3 weeks. And that was with working full time, so I used to express for her during the day at work up until then. She only had one bottle of formula a day from 8 months.

So my first story (Mia) was pain and agony in the beginning and then went on to success to breastfeed for over a year, and my second story (Hannah) was magic and ease in the beginning and heartache in the end that my body failed me at 6 months :( (we should really get an emoticon with tears, because I need it here!)
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16 years 2 months ago #87559 by julz
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I just want to add that you can top up feed if needed as long as it is from a cup and not a bottle. I did it with great success for the first week and went on to bf for 9 months. Dylan is 20 months old and I still have milk and this from a mom whose milk supply came in on day 4 so I still latched Dylan regardless and I had huge complications and was in high care. It is possible. You need sheer determination though and support.
Mom of Dylan and Partner to Joerg. We live in the Beautiful Pringle Bay which is along the Whale coast, Cape.


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16 years 2 months ago #86667 by woo-woo
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i very much support breastfeeding, my first child i fed till she was 2 :) when my lb was born he was a big baby and latched on very well, it worked for about 2 months and somehow after that i could even feel that my breast-milk was not enough, i couldn't even feel that burn of the milk coming in, i fed him on demand and people cannot believe me when i tell them that i think he sucked me dry or something.

if you can bf, then you should by all means.

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16 years 2 months ago #86501 by memo
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I also would not have coped with hospital staff! Plus I felt so vulnerable after the birth.
I had my baby at home also because I did not want staff handeling my newborn like he did not have feelings.
ANGELSMOM- you are such an inspiration!
I have finally finished my contract and I could not keep up with expressing, at the end I was just expressing one feed a day!
You and Jems are proof that it can be done, but from my experience of working for two weeks, I would have to say, you guys are awesome and obviously very determined.
Also breastfeeding does come at a price. You have to take special care of yourself to keep your milk supply booming when baby is not around!
The world is going gagga on people fronting like they have money to trow around.
I have noticed that celebs are often sporting a bottle like it's synonamous with baby food? I s a bottle now a status symbol?
Natural birth mom, breastfeeding.
Baby boy born 17 March 2010

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16 years 2 months ago #86490 by Enchanted Pixels
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Oh Deja, what hospital was this? What you just said, is what makes me even more glad I had my last 2 at home. Nurses have no idea how NOT to be assholes or intimidating (sorry).
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16 years 2 months ago #86466 by Moomie Admin
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Angelsmom, I have a nice saying for that woman. It's two words and the last word is "off".

Good for you for still expressing at work! That is hard work and it takes a lot out of a mother to do that. What with the stress of being back at work etc. I was fortunate enough to be able to drive home for feedings.

Claudia, that is what gets me as well. The thing is, I fed straight after birth, literally 15 minutes after and she kept on drinking almost the whole night. Even after I told the nurse she JUST fed, she still insisted on WAKING MY SLEEPING NEWBORN BABY and thrusting a needle through her heel.

Next time I will refuse. It is my baby and I will say what they can and cannot do with her! They also KEPT ON WAKING us, because they wanted to bath her. (They woke us at 10pm, wanting to take her away, again at 5am and again at 7am. Keeping in mind I was in labour for ten hours and my newborn is getting used to be a human, they kept on waking us. If I think about it now, MY bloodsugar rises!)

This after I said repeatedly I will not let them bath her, I will bath her myself when I get home. (I wanted the vernix to stay on her for at least 24 hours.) They kept on coming back, saying to me she has not yet been bathed, they "must" bath her. I eventually had to sign something to say I won't let them bath her.

Luckily I went home the next morning. (She was born the previous night at 6pm.) I wouldn't have survived another day in that hospital.

Shouldn't hospitals encourage the mother and baby to bond, as well as sleep after such a long labour?

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16 years 2 months ago #86460 by AngelsMom
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I had a similar argument at work, when i started after ML and some of the ladies i work asked why i am torturing myself by expressing for my daughter and not just buying formula! Tried explaining to her that breast is best and she replied and said i am still breast feeding because i cant afford formula. Must admit i was very upset after she said that but i am not going to stop because some people are 'ignorant'. I also get comments like your baby is so thin are you starving her? Sometimes i wish i had a t shirt written 'of course she's petite she's a boob baby :-)
Breastfeeding and Co-sleeping mom
We use cloth nappies too
raisingmynana.wordpress.com
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