Sure someday he will be excited when he's 37 years old and getting to first base, but learning
about breastfeeding at a young age is healthy.
We're going to talk
about breastfeeding at least for a minute.
I was once REVERSE harassed
about Breastfeeding at a friend's baby shower.
She writes
about breastfeeding at Lactation Narration, and she is particularly interested in extended breastfeeding, tandem nursing, pumping at work, nursing in public, the science of lactation, and breastfeeding advocacy.
You'll meet moms and learn
about breastfeeding at the same time.
OK I jest,
about breastfeeding at least (we're still happily doing it, nearly 17 months in, and it's been one of the most surprising and fulfilling elements of motherhood for me).
I try hard to express that when I'm helping mums with feeding their babies, it isn't
about breastfeeding at all.
Not exact matches
But all that most people saw when they looked
at the magazine cover was a fully - clothed boy of
about four or five years old standing on a chair to
breastfeed.
I needed her to teach me
about breastfeeding and bonding with my babies, I needed her as the wind
at my back moving me further into my wholeness.
Don't worry, hubby will tell MIL to MYOB if she says anything
about us
breastfeeding exclusively for the first 6 months
at least (she once tried to put egg in our oldest daughter's mouth when she was only 3 months old!
I didn't even know why I felt so bad
about considering giving up, because everyone, even medical experts, was telling me my baby would be fine if I didn't
breastfeed, and I personally had nothing against formula
at all (again, I fully expected to wean to it eventually, probably around the six month mark).
Just putting my own experience in — my son lost interest in
breastfeeding at about 14 months, my daughter still woke for a night feed on occaision till she was a little over 4.
But considering when out and
about I see way, way more babies getting bottles than being nursed, and the stats that show the majority of moms use bottles and formula
at some point, I have to wonder, WHO is giving the judgmental looks to bottlefeeding moms??? The tiny minority who manage to exclusively
breastfeed?
A http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/03/17/new-study-on-impact-of-free-formula-on-
breastfeeding-rates/"rel = «nofollow» > Canadian study I posted
about a while ago found that moms who didn't take any formula samples home from the hospital were 3.5 times more likely to be exclusively
breastfeeding at 2 weeks post partum.
Beth
at The Natural Mommy said when she first heard
about the
breastfeeding doll, she thought, «Finally!
All the messages
about what one «ought» to do for their children, be it
breastfeeding, staying
at home, enrolling in the optimal preschool, attachment parenting, whatever, are typically only available to people with a certain amount of social capital.
I told her
about another friend who gave up
breastfeeding her 1st child
at 3 weeks, due to bad medical advice,
about an abcess.
Our daughter was eleven - months - old on our first trip, and she'd weaned herself from
breastfeeding at about nine months.
Now we're finally home and this last few nights my frustration level with all this
breastfeeding stuff has been escalating significantly, to the point that I dread the moment my wife will feed our child and when the feeds take over an hour
at 11 pm and we have to wake up again in
about 1.5 to 2 hours my frustration becomes more like rage against both the baby and my wife.
I had lots of help: dh was not working
at the time and was committed to helping me 24/7 and was 100 % supportive; mil is a IBCLC and would drop everything and come to our home if we called her; my midwife was passionate
about breastfeeding, visited me ever other day, sometimes every day; I saw Dr. Jack Newman regularly until my son was 8 weeks old.
I also know many stay -
at - home moms who formula fed and left the workplace to stay with their children - so the «cons» against
breastfeeding are «cons
about having children» but not cons against
breastfeeding.
Christine
at Pop discourse wrote On Bloggers,
Breastfeeding, Formula, Morality, Change, & the Nestle Family Event and talks
about why she chose not to attend the #NestleFamily event and how all of this impacts blogger relations in general.
I have a few qualms
about his hunch that «The key difference is likely to come down to the demands of
breastfeeding following the birth of a child — an activity that's energy - intensive, time - consuming, and quite difficult to integrate with paid work,
at least as work is currently structured» — because that assumes that all women who want a high status - high income partner plan to have children.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with
breastfeeding, and since
breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up
about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're
breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to birth my next two
at home).
I'd sit on message boards for hours reading what everyone was saying
about breastfeeding, learning
about what kind of cribs I should get, and discovering what I should be teaching my children
at different stages.
Our core team are all moms with small kiddies, and between us we've faced just
about every
breastfeeding challenge there is, from attachment issues, low supply, pumping
at work, and pumping for prem bubs.
Katherine Dettwyler, an associate professor of anthropology and nutrition
at Texas A&M University, conducted a study in the late 1990s on 1,280 children whose parents self - reported information
about their
breastfeeding practices.
On a 2003 episode of CBS's Early Show, Dr. Carden Johnston, the AAP's president
at the time, claimed that he was absolutely in favor of a campaign to promote
breastfeeding but worried
about the tone of this particular campaign.
I «wore» my kids everywhere,
breastfed both for
at least 24 months each, answered their cries
at night, rocked them to sleep, no crying it out, etc but got SO much grief
about not co-sleeping.
If we decide to stay somewhere longer than originally planned, it's usually easy enough to find something to eat for the older kids and us parents, and keep
breastfeeding as usual, without having to worry
about whether the breast milk is still cold enough in the cooler, or whether they might stock our brand of baby milk
at the corner store in an unfamiliar town.
Hello, I was wondering if I could have permission to print off your fact page on «Exposing the Myths
about Fore milk and Hind milk» to hand out to some of my clients
at the
Breastfeeding Clinic here
at Peterborough Regional Health Center?
I
breastfeed all the time except for
at her late night feeding I don't have enough breastmilk so I pump (usually
about 1.5 oz.)
At every single prenatal and post-natal appointment, doctors and nurses tell expecting parents
about the miraculous benefits of
breastfeeding.
At ten months, what's their favorite part
about breastfeeding?
These are truths you'll only hear
about from your closest friends, like how
breastfeeding will not only make your boobs sag but get smaller
at the same time, and how there's a good chance you'll poop on the delivery table.
At about 8 weeks she really starting eating less and less during that feeding, until
about feeding for 4 minutes (
breastfed) on only 1 side.
Think also
about the organisation of your day - to - day living spaces - you'll need to make sure that everything is in easy reach for those
breastfeeding sessions — if the phone is currently
at the furthest point in the room from the sofa, you might want to make a few little changes!
At some point during pregnancy you probably heard a myth or two
about breastfeeding.
For more great information
about what you can do during pregnancy to prepare for a positive
breastfeeding experience, check out my blog,
at SanDiegoBreastfeedingCenter.com/blog, and be sure to listen to Preggie Pals and The Boob Group for fantastic conversations
about breastfeeding and
breastfeeding support.
As I am
breastfeeding at home not out and
about, will he ever take to the bottle?
If you want to learn more
about breastfeeding, (in addition to the information supplied here
at Easy Baby Life) here are a few good books to dig through:
I guess the thoughts I did have
about breastfeeding were that it seemed vaguely ick to me personally (ie: while I'm not grossed out by others doing it
AT ALL, I didn't love the thought of doing it myself).
That's AEROflowinc.com to start the process and if you're already
breastfeeding, they do have that online store that Courtney was telling you
about with breast pumps supplies and accessories and you can use our special promo code which is newmommy, N E W M O M M Y, and get 10 % off your order
at www.aeroflowmomandbaby.com.
Reviews
about breastfeeding help provide total, pragmatic, and practical methods aimed
at teaching you how to rightly latch your baby and lactate without discomfort and soreness.
It's hard
at this stage to think
about anything but her — and our — sleep routines, but I feel kind of the same way
about people asking
about breastfeeding: it's been tough for us and I hate that we can't focus on how terrific our little one is without a whole discussion of latch.
Overall,
about 96 percent of the women were
breastfeeding right after delivery, and giving birth
at a BFHI - accredited hospital did not seem to increase the number of women
breastfeeding over the next few months.
For more great information
about different
breastfeeding remedies, check out my blog
at http://www.sandiegobreastfeedingcenter.com/blog and be sure to listen to the Parent Savers and The Boob Group for fantastic conversations
about breastfeeding and
breastfeeding support.
So,
at some point you may want to wean your baby off of sucking for comfort and make
breastfeeding sessions only
about nourishment.
Some exclusively
breastfed babies dislike infant cereal when it is introduced
at about six months of age.
I was beginning to feel like a bit of a pro
at breastfeeding, holding my own amongst the mothers
at La Leche League meetings during discussions
about how to weather your baby's growth spurts.