But for those women who are breastfeeding, incidents like these can force them to choose
between giving up breastfeeding and taking time off from work.
Not exact matches
Is it better for a mother to put her pump parts in the fridge
between uses, or to wash her pump parts every time as described — and then
give up and stop
breastfeeding altogether because she can't stand over a sink and spend 15 minutes washing pump parts in the middle of the night when she is exhausted and has already been
up for an hour pumping and feeding the baby?
Helping them figure out how to manage the judicious use of a bottle or a pacifer can make the difference
between continuing to
breastfeed and
giving up completely.
For the rest of that first week, I'd practice
breastfeeding her when we would wake
up and go to bed, but in
between, I
gave her formula in a bottle.
Between not producing milk and reading this book I felt like the worst mother doing a disservice to my son when we finally
gave up on
breastfeeding.