Sentences with phrase «about giving up breastfeeding»

You know, we are asking them to combine that role of being a breastfeeding mother, alongside being a lover and a sexual partner and you know, when two or three months have gone by and you are struggling to combine those two roles and your partner is struggling with that, it's inevitable that some people are going to start thinking about giving up breastfeeding and certainly for asking those mothers to get to six months and a year, that's a long time to struggle with those two roles and struggle trying to make those two roles fit together.

My doctor was supportive of breastfeeding, and not only checked that what she was prescribing was considered safe enough to take while breastfeeding, but also said, when I asked about giving up breastfeeding, that she didn't think I should be making that decision in my depressed state.

I never really thought about the formula - feeding mom's perspective until I saw a mother in my new baby group crying about giving up breastfeeding and using formula.

For example, a 2 - year - old toddler may be more attached and less flexible about giving up breastfeeding than a 12 - month - old baby.

Not exact matches

To the best of our ability, their father and I raised our children to see both parents working in the home and without as normal, and when they grew up, our daughters, our only children, had no second thoughts about giving time to their careers, nor to the advantages of breastfeeding and the importance of providing healthy, whole foods to their families.

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).

I told her about another friend who gave up breastfeeding her 1st child at 3 weeks, due to bad medical advice, about an abcess.

I make it a point to talk about why I gave up on breastfeeding so early - because I know (now) that I was wrong about a lot of things - and I hope that it will somehow help other moms (and myself next time around).

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).

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Many breastfeeding issues can quickly turn painful, lead to a low breast milk supply, cause a slow weight gain in your baby, and even have you thinking about giving up on breastfeeding.

With my oldest daughter I just wore my bra that hadn't fit since I was 4 months pregnant with breast pads a breastfeeding friend gave me and I was dried up in about 3 - 5 days.

I was really sad that I had given up breastfeeding and then absolutely gutted when I found out about BLW.

However, I was always intending to combination feed then give up breastfeeding and switch to formula after a few months as I wanted some freedom.It was my choice to breastfeed, to give up having drinks, to do the night feeds, to get my breasts out in public and everything else you mention above (I didn't watch what I ate, if I listened to the HV about giving up dairy and greens and everything else, then I would have felt like crap) I made that decision and by the sounds of it so did you.

I know quite a few people who strongly advocate breastfeeding and are of the opinion that if you formula feed then you're not doing the right thing, yet they moan constantly about how tired they are, how they've had to give up things to breastfeed and how the baby is clingy to them..

Over the last few days we have been showing a few examples as to what we mean by their tactics such as - Excluding breastfeeding off forms when they ask about the way the baby gets fed, formula samples being sent to homes that never even signed up, Hospitals giving mothers formula samples even after they explicitly state they will be breastfeeding, Changing some words on the can to target breastfeeding mothers to buy their formula, I even tried calling into the «Lactation service» they offer for free and pretended I was having trouble with supply so asked what I should do.

Moms rave about this product, with several reviewers saying it saved them from giving up on breastfeeding.

I'm talking about the women who wanted to breastfeed, but gave up for reasons that could have been avoided.

They can give up their treasured belief about breastfeeding or — easier and more comfortable — they can pretend that dead babies are «fake news,» insist that grieving parents are unfairly blaming the ideology, or, worst of all, insist that the survivors are somehow responsible for their own suffering.

So, before you start thinking about adding formula or giving up on breastfeeding altogether, ask yourself these five questions.

Unfortunately, lots of doctors are not up - to - date about breastfeeding and simply choose to give medication that is not compatible with breastfeeding and tell the mother not to breastfeed rather than do the research to find one that is compatible.

Another found that the most common reasons women give up on breastfeeding are latching issues, worries about milk production and nipple pain.

«It's a tragic irony,» says Andrew Radford, United Kingdom Coordinator of Baby Milk Action (BMA), «that mothers who give up breastfeeding in reaction to scares about dioxin in the breastmilk are actually contributing to the amount of dioxin in the environment as a whole.»

the best advice ive gotten about breastfeeding is not to give up and to follow your heart, do nt give into people telling you you need to wean if your not ready

With my oldest I had NOBODY talk to me about breastfeeding and i was scared to breastfeed, with my second i was more informed that it was better for him but I did nt really have a support system and I just gave up after a couple weeks, so when I found out I was pregnant again I was determined to nurse and be successful.

But given the many benefits of breastfeeding and the fact that a hungry baby waits for no mom, you'll quickly hang up any hangups about nursing in public.

I gave up breastfeeding after only a few weeks because of sore nipples, and I was worried about the medication I was taking getting through my milk to my baby.

He wasn't a great nurser either so wasn't like, you know, we'd gotten off to this fabulous start but it was just, I think this second one learns how to kind of go with the flow a little bit more because it was not all about that child and for me, I didn't necessarily set up a routine but what I did do is, actually a little bit opposite of yours, mine was, I had to satisfy the toddler first, because I figured that, the infant kind of walk around, kind of keep him pacified a little bit, but my toddler was like me, me, me, me, me, like I need this now, so we had a box of toys, that he could play with, like they were only set up for when I were nursing, so they were like his special toys, a special snacks that I knew that would be safe and I wouldn't be giving the Heimlich Maneuver you know, while I was trying to breastfeed.

Never give up or make a decision about breastfeeding in the middle of the night.

(My baby ended up there for about seven hours the day she was born, and the nurses came to ask if they could give her a bottle; I said yes, and it impacted our breastfeeding not one bit.

Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten about how I was feeding my baby).

However tough or enjoyable breastfeeding has been, appreciate that mum may be feeling rather emotional about giving it up and be ready to offer moral support, reassuring her that many other bonding experiences will come her way.

I ended up supplementing with formula partially because of doctors who were too alarmist about his weight, but also because of really intense, borderline mean, and not helpful lactation consultants at my (very breastfeeding - friendly) hospital... but most importantly, because he was showing signs of dehydration, and I swear to god any mom would immediately give some form of alternate feeding in that situation.

I was so down that my milk dried up and it's all because I wasn't given enough information about BREASTFEEDING.

I have three other kids that I breastfed until I dried up around 7 - 10 months, and I'm sad about having these issues with this one, as we are planning on her being our last, but I also feel like pumping will give me some sanity back.

They focused a lot on how breastfeeding was going / troubleshooting breastfeeding issues during our one - day, three - day, two - week, and six - week follow up appointments, and gave me information about support groups and lactation consultants we could meet with ASAP if we needed additional support.

So many mothers, who expect that breastfeeding should just come «naturally,» are set up to fail when the reality doesn't match the image they're given, and when everyone around them, equally under - informed about breastfeeding and normal newborn behavior, suggests that their baby is «eating too often» or that they should just give the baby a bottle.

RACHEL JACKSON: Ok, my name is Rachel Jackson I am the mother of two boys ages three and five years old I've been practicing law for about 16 years and was often travelling for work and struggling with breastfeeding and pumping and trying to find a sanitary place to pump and I ended up having so many bouts of mastitis and plugged ducts because of it, that I ended up, I started giving up a lot of work because it was just too hard to pump.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Your baby will benefit from receiving colostrum, so if you're struggling with breastfeeding or feel like giving up, learning more about this amazing substance may give you the boost you need to keep going.

I thought about how difficult things felt when we couldn't nurse properly, when we were pumping and finger feeding, when Asher and I were both miserable, and how, in those moments, I understood exactly why women give up on breastfeeding.

In 2016 the WHO released a report that concluded that if every child were breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for the first six months of life, and continued breastfeeding up to the age of two years, about 800,000 children's lives would be saved globally every year.»

It recommends that breastfeeding babies continues, or they are given 500 ml (or about a pint) of formula a day, while they are being weaned, up to their first birthday.