The same
goes in certain hospitals right now there's a real movement you know for the older late pre-term instance or the
nursery full term instance who's mom because of medication during a C - section or just a really difficult time emberwing that the mom be given some relief by giving the child donor milk while she continues
to get her milk supply out.
for the first 8 - 9 months at which point I will
go back
to working
full time therefore I will be using it for the daily walk
to the
nursery and back (about an hour's walk per day) and for weekend walks.
We've made it through lots of transitions in the last 6 months — started
full day
nursery school, potty trained, moved into a big kid bed — and although each of those changes had bumps in the road, we are in a good spot except
going back
to sleep at night.
Although having
to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU /
nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy
to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed
to.And my advice
to all new mothers who hope / plan
to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some
to the hospital with you when you
go to give birth), don't be afraid
to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need
to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer
to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it
to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so
full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).