Sentences with phrase «give up breastfeeding at»

Also for various reasons, I had to give up breastfeeding at 3 weeks, even though I was 100 % committed to it at the beginning, so she's been on formula exclusively since.

We have suffered at the other end of the judgement spectrum of me having given up breastfeeding at 5 months due to an (then) undiagnosed tongue - tie.

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They had her hooked up to all sorts of stuff (she was stuck in the box, they didn't want her skin to skin with me, wouldn't let me breastfeed her the first day, and kept her in the nursery, we visited every two hours), had her on an IV and then gave her formula without my permission, because she had jaundice and low blood sugar at birth.

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.

If everyone gave up at 2 weeks, like the guest poster on your site suggested, then breastfeeding rates would plummet.

For many, the base assumption is that any mom would want to breastfeed, but everything surrounding breastfeeding in our society is so screwed up that it is reasonable to assume that a mama who can't (or thinks she can't) breastfeed has, at the very least, been given bad info somewhere along the line.

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).

Three weeks ago I was still part BF them, they kept having short meals (up to 14 each a day) when at the breast so I gave up breastfeeding and switched to exclusive bottle feeding with formula.

Also - and I'm not proud of this - I had a theory that many breastfeeding «problems» were a result of women waiting too long to have kids; that we were a selfish generation and that my peers would just give up too easily, at the first sign of trouble; that we couldn't be bothered in the first place.

I am breastfeeding, but she is weaning herself.She drinks water from a cup at every meal and often asks for it!I've tried giving her cut up apple for snacks, but she plays with it!

by: Anonymous My one month old son is breastfed & formula fed but he is always groaning as if he is in pain, he has» nt pass stool for a day so i gave him gripe water & it is still happening i then gave him laxitive drops he passes a little stool but he is still crying at times & muscle - ing up as if he is straining to do something & thats makes me very uncomfortable, what should i do?

If your baby is willing to give up breastfeeding sessions but isn't interested in drinking from a bottle or cup, put some of your breastmilk on the spout or bottle nipple to give your baby a taste of what he or she is used to at the beginning of each feed.

Waiting at least four weeks gives you time to build up a healthy breast milk supply and ensure that your baby is breastfeeding well.

Without the assistance of the breastfeeding counsellors at the Princess Royal maternity hospital in Glasgow, who sat with me through the tears and the pain, I may have given up myself.

Unfortunately, this happens all to often: statistics show that nearly half of all new moms who start breastfeeding at birth give up within the first 6 weeks.

I just hoped to recover soon and start breastfeeding again.But he has got used to bottle & is not ready to feed from the breast.Finally I gave up n thought of atleast giving him expressed breast milk thru an electronic pump.But my milk supply has become very low since breastfeeding wasnt continuous since birth.I have also got my periods at 1 and half mmonths.Already on lactare capsules but no use.Heard of many side effects of domperidone & metoclopramide.Pls help.Im so worried.im pumping every 3 hrs & the output is roughly 15 ml including both breasts each time.Is is possible to increase breastmilk production from 2 months time after birth?

Twins are at a higher risk for premature birth and other complications, but you don't have to give up on your dream of breastfeeding your twins if they need special medical care.

The study by Durham University found that mothers who shared their bed with their babies for at least an hour a week were more likely to continue breastfeeding past six months but mothers who go to their baby's cot to breastfeed are more likely to give up before six months.

If they are so supportive of bfing then why send 2 separate packages of formula to a mom at the exact time that most moms in this part of Canada (the Maritime provinces) give up on breastfeeding — 3 months.

I did that even though I know that many breastfeeding mothers also give pacifiers, and even though DS ended up having lots of bottles (mostly of breastmilk) after I went back to work at 6 weeks.

Repeat them every day as she is fighting for breastfeeding your child and can give up at any time.

So, for moms who find that their baby is really very frustrated and not happy with the breast, I definitely would say, «You give it a good old try and really try and get your baby to breastfeed unless you kind of figure it out for you know usually up to 15 minutes but at that point, I wouldn't push it longer than that.»

My mother, my own mother who breastfed me for I think four months was like every time I wipe it out and when they come over and I just need to breast feed my babies, she looks at me and gives me that look and she is like, okay, they can ask for it so maybe it is time to wrap things up.

My breastfeeding journey has not been a good one I am currently exclusively pumping, I hate reading the articles that say just pump until it gets better I've been pumping that's how I got it, I feel like I just want to give up even though everyone says you should breastfeed your baby for at least one year.

I almost gave up breastfeeding on my 3rd week of being at home.

Pressure point of breastfeeding: I feel that the first few days of breastfeeding is the most crucial part, once they start giving up or doubting all the problem start entering so I am always telling people to text, email or message me at the moment they feel they need help.

In Russia, around 80 - 90 % of women start to breastfeed at the maternity clinic, but many give up quite soon, according to Elena Baibarina, Director of the Child and Maternal Health Department at the Russian Ministry of Health.

I have seen babies who are upset every time they go near a breast because they have been handled roughly by hospital staff (mothers» breasts have been grabbed and their baby's head shoved onto a breast); I have seen women who have been told they don't have enough milk or «your milk isn't strong enough» (this is never true and usually comes from an older relative who may have been told this a generation ago); women who have been advised to give their babies a top - up bottle only to have the baby find the fast milk flow easier than working at the breast so consequently, weaning begins before breastfeeding even becomes established.

New mothers often feel like failures at breastfeeding and give up shortly after starting.

The book gave what seemed to be sound breastfeeding advice, noting that it is a system of supply and demand, and that feeding at regular intervals keeps your milk supply up, so I figured that I just couldn't breastfeed.

I am at my wits end with being in so much pain and am trying everything I can to not give up on breastfeeding

There are different options you can try to make this easier and / or encourage them to breastfeed less or night wean: get a bigger bed (we upgraded to a king size), put a couple of mattresses together and make one BIG bed on the floor, tell them «no boobie until the sun comes up», or have your partner see if they can put them to bed at night to give you a bit of a break at bed time.

We went to the breastfeeding clinic at Children's, I tried to take all the advice everyone wanted to give me, but alas by the end of her 2nd month I gave up trying to feed her at the breast.

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).

So, in the middle of the night they gave him the colostrum and when I woke up in the morning I breastfed for the first time so, he was you know, I went in there at 7 am after shift change and then he was less than 12 hours old when I breastfed him.

i did have some crazy woman show up at my door one day from a breastfeeding advocay group telling me i was a failure and i gave up too soon and my child should be removed from my care!!!! people have NO idea what hell i went thru for 8 weeks.

Starting solids at any age doesn't mean that you give up on breastfeeding; it just adds variety.

He chose to give up private practice to work for breastfeeding policy, has been able to bring «breastfeeding» issues to forefront of discussions both at national level and international level.

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 made up my mind that for three days Peter would not be given the bottle and that if at each feeding session he didn't breastfeed within a couple of hours, I would give him expressed milk via a cup or spoon.

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.»

I talked it through with a breastfeeding counselor at the hospital and we decided that the best thing for everyone would be to give up breastfeeding to ensure my baby recovered from the infection and started to put on weight.

At the time I had no idea it was possible to restart breastfeeding once you had given up.

It's served up with an (un) healthy side of parental stupidity, sexism (towards men - too stupid to deal with bottles), and really, really bad breastfeeding practices (giving even a bottle of expressed breastmilk at night could lesson a mom's night milk making, crucial to supply!)

But on that third and final day at the hospital, feeling quite exhausted and dejected as I syringed yet another feed into Peter, I felt like giving up on breastfeeding.

Ruth excels at sleep relief, giving specific recommendations for safe sleep habits for you and your baby, how to breastfeed through the night and how to set up a comfortable environment for encouraging your baby to sleep for longer stretches at a time.

Trudy: I always said I would breastfeed for 12 weeks and that would be it, but up until the last few days I really didn't want to formula feed, I couldn't stand him near me when we started to formula feed at first, I thought I was totally failing him by giving him a bottle.

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

This information would have helped me tremendously had it been available when my firstborn worked so hard to learn to breastfeed from my one - flat and one - inverted nipples, then demonstrated absolute frustration when I stuck every long - nippled bottle teat in her face starting at 6 weeks and finally giving up at 4 months.