Breastfeeding being downplayed

I had the same thing on my FB one day, I nearly killed the person who commented. A mutual friend asked on her status if anyone was selling their breastpump and one woman replied "Just give a bottle, it's much easier" what pissed me off the most about that reply is that the question wasn't should she bottle feed or not.

Some people!

It is quite sad that so few people know of la leche league, There is a person in absolutely EVERY town everywhere! And they are free!
The lady I sometimes speak to said I can phone here day or night and not only does she answer questions she also offers support and comfort and encouragement!
There is some good in this world, and la leche league is among them!

Deja I would be very thankful if you could do that but I told myself, next time am gonna get a BF consultant before I even give birth.

3 days post birth, I was not in my right frame of mind and was very emotional because bf was not going well either. I could not even think of looking for a BF consultant. No one did not even mention it when they saw how much I struggled.

They all just gave me their old wives tales about bringing milk in and it did ziltch. So for me I had zero support and I started expressing and did that for 12 weeks.

My only consolation is that K got Breast milk for the first 12 weeks of her life and then we had to settle for second best.

The whole blood sugar thing confuses me. I was told to wake baby up and feed at least every four hours to make sure that he didnt go into a ketoacidosis and that even colostrum would prevent that. Why do the nurses feel obliged to prick and feed newborn babies, rather ensure that they are fed at least four hourly (if they dont demand food more often). James fed straight after he was born, then the first night he was so awake he seemed to want to eat every 3 or so hours, but then at about 6am he finally let the effort of being born get to him and fell into a deep sleep. I even struggled to wake him at 10 to feed:)

He was 3.9 at birth and by day 5 had already started gaining (we weighed 4.1)

Deja - Thats fantastic but you must also understand that not all women can have access to breastfeeding consultants and therefore they dont get the right info to begin with.

I received conflicting advice in hospital and when I went home, even the families were giving me advice that never helped. I found that the info on breast feeding consultants are also not readily made available. If so, I could have also had someone to help me out.

My mik=lk only came in on day 5! By day 3, my babe had lost 11% of her birth weight and even the paed suggested formula. Thats when everything went downhill and I agree after giving formula, its almost impossible to get baby to take the breast.

Next time am definitely going the breastfeeding consultant route as well.

I gave birth at Mediclinic Bloemfontein, and can say I was given lots of support for breastfeeding. I was clueless as this is my first baby, and baby didn't take to sucking immediately. My milk came in on the day I left hospital. I allowed them to give him formula, but decided to exclusively breastfeed once I left hospital. I did this for the first 3 months, sadly my supply was very low inspite of all the concoctions I took in my attempts to up my milk supply. Eglonyl, jungle juice, fenugreek, beer, blackberry elixir, you name it.

At almost 6 months, milk is almost dried up, compounded by LO no longer waking up to feed at night. I've been breastfeeding only at night in the last 2 months.

I thnk in my community, not breastfeeding is frowned upon.
I was reading on an American forum the other day, and was surprised my moms venting that they were constantly encouraged not to breastfeed.