Pumping might be even
harder than nursing!
Be patient; pumping breast milk is
harder than nursing.
Breastfeeding twins or multiples is
harder than nursing one baby and the responsibility can feel overwhelming, since the task is more than doable.
It's much
harder than nursing, in my opinion.
Not exact matches
Rather
than forming compact plants, they branch out widely, intertwining into the
nurse trees and giving the pod collector a
hard time.
Is it just me, or do the cravings hit even
harder when
nursing than pregnant?
Hated rice cereal and oatmeal, so it has been really
hard on me having a «different» child
than the rest of my family, but I now feel reassured and have hope that it is ok to continue to
nurse.
But for those of us Mom's who are
nursing we do deserve praise because it is a lot
harder than using formula for every feeding.
Serena took to
nursing like a champ, but after a few months refused to drink from a bottle, so at that point it was
hard to be away from her for more
than a few hours at a time.
This happens more often with moms who are
nursing their babies
than it does with exclusive pumpers, as the baby might not like
nursing from one side — it might get too full (making it
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The muscles used to suck on a bottle or pacifier are different
than those used to breastfeed, and your baby may have a
hard time
nursing afterwards (this is called «nipple confusion» or «nipple preference»).
If it is too
hard it will place undue stress on you and your baby and that will effect your milk production more
than a
nurse giving formula in the hospital.
For months I wondered why
nursing hurt me still, why I had to hold my baby on my breast to make sure he didn't fall off (helping him maintain a latch), why it wasn't getting better, but worse and
harder, why most women I knew were able to go for more
than a half hour without
nursing by the time the baby was four months old.
One baby may suckle
harder or longer
than the other, so alternate the side a baby
nurses on to keep your milk supply strong in both breasts.
And so at that point the baby might be
nursing more frequently
than she would have if she was feeling better but at least then you know that you are providing her with some nutrition, you are providing her with electrolyte, you are providing her with not only cuddles but also to make sure that she is hydrated which is something that which is really
hard to hydrate a child with a cup or bottle sometimes.
It is
harder at first, but I think it is easier to
nurse them
than bottle feed them.
Breastfeeding is also
hard, and many women who struggle with it early on might simply resort to formula — because they can't find a lactation consultant, because they don't know what else to do, or because it's just easier
than nursing.
I was still
nursing at the time, he wasn't walking or even crawling yet, and I was concerned the jump from 2 to 3 would be a lot
harder than 1 to 2.
I had
nurses and my doctor telling me that the Pitocin would make labor much
harder than normal and to reconsider.
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).
«For me,
nursing was
harder than medical school.
Claire Austin, a
nurse rather
than a teacher (though the SNP leader also got a
hard time from them), challenged her over
nurses» pay rises, how «demoralising» it was to work in NHS Scotland and the claim she had made use of food banks.
Since Hepburn and her then - husband, producer Mel Ferrer, who joined her on the project, were good friends with English director Terence Young (the director of three of the first four James Bond movies), whom Hepburn had allegedly met more
than two decades earlier while she treated him as a
nurse in the Netherlands during the Second World War, they lobbied
hard for him to get the gig, even though Jack Warner initially wanted Carol Reed in the director's seat.