Unhelpful comments during stressful periods can cause you to
give up breastfeeding even if you don't want to.
Not exact matches
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).
She asked for my help and I flew from CA fo FL to be there for her and her decision to
breastfeed but
even with my help she
gave up because her other kids had done fine on formula.
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).
When it's warm your baby will probably want to
breastfeed even more frequently than he usually does to quench his thirst, but don't be tempted to
give him water which will fill him
up while not providing the nourishment that your milk
gives him.
By that time, there was enough data available to declare safe not only
breastfeeding without
giving up the injections, but
even not to stop taking them during pregnancy itself.
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.
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.
I'll admit that I finder it harder to understand how women who aren't
even working
give up on
breastfeeding so easily, or refuse to allow their children to sleep in the family bed.
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.
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.
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.
He'd
even say that I can
give up and top
up with formula, but everytime he says this, I am more challenged to do better in
breastfeeding.
Women refuse to
breastfeed because they are scared the child won't latch on to lazy to
even give it a try or too fearful to wonder if there body will keep
up with the milk formula IS what it is formula and to all the fortunate
breastfeed babies they are off to a wonderful great start in life
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.
Even if
breastfeeding is tougher than you expected, don't
give up!
even after that i had trouble
breastfeeding so i finally
gave up and started
giving him expressed milk in bottle.
Whether you're
breastfeeding or
giving bottles throughout the night, when your child wakes
up wanting something to eat, you won't have to go through nearly as many steps as you would if your child was in another room down the hall or
even in another part of your house.
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!)
Even if you're
breastfeeding,
giving baby a few of these bottles here and there is a huge life saver while you wait for your milk supply to fully come in (but remember to nurse / pump first to build
up your supply).
I currently have breast thrush, the second time in these 22 months, and
even though it is so painful, it has never been comfortable, I refuse to
give up breastfeeding.
In the best of circumstances
breastfeeding a newborn takes a lot of effort so it's
even more likely for new moms to
give up if their babies aren't interested in
breastfeeding and their milk is not available.
And if the formula companies now say solids can't
give a toddler all the immunities / nutrients they need, so we need to
give toddler formula
up to 2 years, doesn't it make sense that
breastfeeding up to 2 (or longer if that's your thing) is
even more beneficial?
One of the nurses suggested we
give her a «top -
up» formula feed after the
breastfeeding just to ensure she gets what she needs — this worked for us for a little while but in the end we started using formula full - time, I must admit I was somewhat disappointed but i know i did what i could and my daughter is thriving
even though she isn't
breastfed.
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