Sentences with phrase «attempts at breastfeeding»

When I feed her I often think back to my first attempts at breastfeeding when our son was born, and how strange it was that a little piece of silicone could be both my best friend and the one thing I detested about our breastfeeding relationship.

They helped me lay down on our bed and the skin - to - skin time and first attempts at breastfeeding began.

I had a bit of a tough time with my attempt at breastfeeding my twins, but they thrive on love in the end, and they got plenty of that!

This early attempt at breastfeeding can help to establish the relationship between mother and baby.

I have several friends whose first attempt at breastfeeding was unsuccessful but who resolved to learn more, try again, and seek help when necessary, and went on to have happy nursing relationships with subsequent kids.)

It has been 4 years since my last attempt at breastfeeding and this course was a great refresher and I also learned lots of new great information that makes me feel much more confident to breastfeed my next baby!»

Not exact matches

In my attempt to normalize breastfeeding and provide support up what breastfeeding looks like, I have held up at the breast breastfeeding as being more beautiful, more important, more viable, more worthy of sharing and discussing and promoting than any other infant feeding methodology.

Ok, I had a planned C - section, husband was the first person to feed the baby, attempted to breastfeed about twice & then switched to formula, took dostinex to dry up breastmilk (nothing ever really came in so had no pain or anything) and husband does at least one of the night feeds each night.

Since it has taken some time, and a ton of coaxing and money from big businesses (ie - formula manufacturers) to convince the majority of American women NOT to breastfeed, I have no problem with an «in your face» advocacy that is attempting to put breastfeeding back where it belongs, at the TOP of the list, as a first and most important choice.

I think most of us attempt at it and there are so many circumstances that just doesn't allow for breastfeeding to be successful.

If your baby fights your attempts to breastfeed, feed another way and spend lots of happy cuddle time at the breast.

You see, my hospital was also one of those pro-breastfeeding ones that essentially receives a GRANT for convincing 100 % of all moms to at least attempt breastfeeding.

I understand that breastfeeding is not always successful, but with all that science has told us about the benefits of breastfeeding, aren't your children worth at least an attempt?

This article does not cover what happened to me: I was very determined to breastfeed and I was attempting it at least every 2 hours in the first two days.

There could be factors that make breastfeeding better or worse for an individual baby and factors that make formula better or worse for a particular baby, ranging from extreme prematurity (breastmilk's benefit is larger due to protection against NEC, this is probably the only situation in which I would attempt to at least pump breastmilk) to the mother being unable to cope and care for her child without a medication that is bad for breastfeeding (formula is much healthier for that child).

With 100 % sincerity I am about to attempt to promote the annual Breastfeeding Celebration event at City Hall taking place this Friday and share my current waning desire to continue nursing.

I normally wait till my babies are about 18 months old and they are only breastfeeding at night before I attempt to change my diet.

And because they insist on ignoring the experiences of women, their well meaning attempts at encouraging breastfeeding are almost complete failures.

What is happening to cause a drop from 75 % of women attempting to breastfeed, to only 13 % succeeding at 6 months?

In an attempt to position their baby so they can breastfeed effectively, women often hold their baby's heads, essentially holding their wrists at a 90 degree angle as pressure is applied.

When you begin breastfeeding and need hands - on help with your early attempts at latch and positioning.

If you are attempting to breastfeed but have one of those babies with incredibly strong sucking reflex; I say use the pacifier judiciously until the baby is at least 6 week of age.

Along with breastfeeding, the first attempts at supplementary food can now get started.

For those who have never breastfed and want to at least attempt it, do not go to the hospital without a tube of lanolin ointment!

«Women introduce formula or stop breastfeeding in an attempt to improve the situation, and this can lead to feelings of failure and guilt,» says Pat Hoddinott, Ph.D., lead author of the study and chairwoman of primary care at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

If breastfeeding attempts are infrequent or weak, the possibilities include kangaroo care, maintaining nearness to the infant, hearing and responding emotionally to baby's cries, having the infant attempt to suck or at least nuzzle and regularly attempting to manually express or pump milk (which is beneficial even though only drops may come the first days).

And while plans for another child aren't even in the works yet, I have a ton of anxiety at the thought of even attempting to breastfeed baby No. 2.

If your attempt at stopping breastfeeding cold turkey is far too painful on your own, or if you feel frustrated at the time it is taking for your milk production to cease, you can see your doctor for a prescribed medication.

Inclusion criteria: «Eligible newborns were singletons and twins born after at least 34 weeks» gestation to English - speaking mothers attempting to breastfeed during the maternity stay and with intent to continue breastfeeding after discharge».

The sexy lady's attempt to breastfeed her second child was foiled by her eldest daughter who understandably at two years old got jealous when she saw mummy spending more time with little brother than her.

At this point I was hoping I could attempt to breastfeed for the first time.

I would roll my eyes at him, huff, attempted to educate him so many times (but he wasn't breastfed and he was fine).

At my first attempt to breastfeed, I was told I have flat nipples.

This commercial, in all it's camped up attempts at humor, gives onlookers «permission» to say to a breastfeeding mom «why can't you just go pump so someone else can feed the baby» or «you should bring a bottle of pumped milk so you don't have to breastfeed in public.»

But only half of all adopting mothers who attempt to breastfeed will make any milk at all and few will produce enough to fully satisfy their babies.

A national survey in Singapore in 2001 found that only 21 % of mothers were breast feeding at six months, with less than 5 % of mothers exclusively breast feeding, despite the fact that nearly 90 % of the mothers surveyed indicated that breast feeding was the best form of infant nutrition and 95 % said they had attempted to breastfeed.7 It is evident that many mothers are unable to establish and maintain breast feeding successfully, despite wanting to do so.

While Morgan was visiting her friend at the hospital, a nurse came into the room and was shocked that Morgan's friend was attempting to breastfeed the infants and discouraged her from doing so.

Pain is the main reason cited by many formula feeders as to why they gave up on breastfeeding (if they attempted at all).

Here's the relevant passage (but see the source for more on the research the committee looked at): «Breastfeeding outcomes may be affected by the use of feeding plates (which obturate some of the cleft and attempt to «normalize» the oral cavity for feeding) 46 or presurgical orthopedics (prosthesis to reposition the cleft segments prior to surgery).

The best way to retaliate is to say that breastfeeders are abusing their children, or worse, (my personal non-favourite): that your attempt at sharing facts about breastfeeding / milk, is a personal attack on person xyz, or an attempt to make them feel guilty.

We attempted to examine this by assessing the intensity of the intervention, and we found studies with four to eight visits to be associated with a more pronounced treatment effect on exclusive breastfeeding at final study assessment.