I ran into so many challenging moments that made me feel
like giving up breastfeeding, it probably would have behooved me to, you know, look into breastfeeding and the potential complications before I actually tried to achieve breastfeeding success.
Not exact matches
Like in when to
give up on
breastfeeding or what
gives you the right?
If everyone
gave up at 2 weeks,
like the guest poster on your site suggested, then
breastfeeding rates would plummet.
This is a common statement made and if women have problems
breastfeeding they may feel
like they are failing and
give up.
I would
like to encourage others who want to
breastfeed in this situation not to
give up and hope that you get the support that I did.
However, rest assured that other moms just
like you have been through struggles with encouraging their children to
give up breastfeeding, and you're not alone.
Some people take to
breastfeeding like a duck to water, others struggle, some persist, others
give up, and some never start.
The advert is putting a lot of pressure on the
breastfeeding mother which can make her feel
like she is not doing enough for her baby and just
give up on
breastfeeding.
However, I was always intending to combination feed then
give up breastfeeding and switch to formula after a few months as I wanted some freedom.It was my choice to
breastfeed, to
give up having drinks, to do the night feeds, to get my breasts out in public and everything else you mention above (I didn't watch what I ate, if I listened to the HV about
giving up dairy and greens and everything else, then I would have felt
like crap) I made that decision and by the sounds of it so did you.
I took a notebook and filled
up multiple pages with things
like how to
give baby a bath, how to care for a circumcision,
breastfeeding tips, how to swaddle baby, and how to change a diaper (somehow I made it through life without changing a single diaper until Little J was born).
As long as you have
given up the middle of the night
breastfeeding, you should be able to get pregnant just
like anyone else.
Sometimes women
give up because people
like you pretend that
breastfeeding is so natural and easy and magical.
To be fair, not sure it would have made that much difference, since it's not
like my newborn baby could read them with me and learn how to properly latch and help make sure infections and bleeding nipples were a thing and make me tea so I could keep my supply
up, but still; just knowing how much of a struggle
breastfeeding can be, and how normal it is to have complications and and to feel
like giving up, would have definitely helped.
it's really messed
up that they
give these out and label them specifically for
breastfeeding moms but i did get a thrill out of the huge stack of formula (
like 5 cans!)
I felt
like a failure,
like I was the only woman who had ever had to
give up breastfeeding because her body was not cooperating.
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.
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.
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.
It just seemed
like such an arbitrary cutoff, and I've been around toddlers I knew that one minute they can seem
like such a big kid and the next,
like such a baby.We had a very rough start with
breastfeeding, but
giving up was not an option for me.
But my daughter Clara deserves nearly all the credit: she always loved
breastfeeding (despite getting so little from it for so long); she never
liked the bottle and she never
gave up on me.
New mothers often feel
like failures at
breastfeeding and
give up shortly after starting.
It sounds
like breastfeeding is important to you, so don't
give up yet.
He wasn't a great nurser either so wasn't
like, you know, we'd gotten off to this fabulous start but it was just, I think this second one learns how to kind of go with the flow a little bit more because it was not all about that child and for me, I didn't necessarily set
up a routine but what I did do is, actually a little bit opposite of yours, mine was, I had to satisfy the toddler first, because I figured that, the infant kind of walk around, kind of keep him pacified a little bit, but my toddler was
like me, me, me, me, me,
like I need this now, so we had a box of toys, that he could play with,
like they were only set
up for when I were nursing, so they were
like his special toys, a special snacks that I knew that would be safe and I wouldn't be
giving the Heimlich Maneuver you know, while I was trying to
breastfeed.
If a new mum pressurises herself, she is likely to end
up feeling stressed and, as a result, will be more
like to
give up breastfeeding early.
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.
I have three other kids that I
breastfed until I dried
up around 7 - 10 months, and I'm sad about having these issues with this one, as we are planning on her being our last, but I also feel
like pumping will
give me some sanity back.
If you're
breastfeeding, you may feel
like giving up when your baby hits a growth spurt — not because you're tired, but because you're worried he isn't getting enough milk.
Your baby will benefit from receiving colostrum, so if you're struggling with
breastfeeding or feel
like giving up, learning more about this amazing substance may
give you the boost you need to keep going.