Sentences with phrase «of painful nursing»

«When I came to the group, I was having a lot of painful nursing issues, but as time has gone on and my daughter and son have grown, I find that the most beneficial help I've received is on finding balance and positive discipline.»

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Fear, on the other hand, is a dry nurse for the child: it has no milk; a bloodless corrector for the youth: it has no beckoning encouragement; a niggardly disease for the adult: it has no blessing; a horror for the aged: when fear has to admit that the long painful time of schooling did not bring Eternal Blessedness.

I felt like nursing was really painful in the beginning of pregnancy, but it seems better now.

First, I have heard of stories of women that are not comfortable nursing because they were sexually abused and find it too emotionally painful to have their breasts in constant use.

Honestly, nursing with my son was by far the most incredibly painful experience of my life.

We mastered nursing within a few painful weeks, but pumping was painful in a different way: You just have to sit there, without the use of your hands, and you don't even have a cute baby in your arms to fawn over.

To keep up your milk supply in both breasts — and prevent painful engorgement in one — it's important to alternate breasts and try to give each one the same amount of nursing time throughout the day.

Within a few painful nights of this, we determined we needed to quickly eliminate nursing after first going to sleep at night and not nurse again until morning.

Antibiotics can help treat the infection, but one of the worst things about mastitis is that the best way to make it feel better is to keep emptying the breast, and nursing with mastitis is extraordinarily painful.

Think of it as payback for the painful early days of breastfeeding: After you get going, you may experience a natural high, thanks to the helpful nursing hormones oxytocin and prolactin.

While sore breasts in the first few weeks of breastfeeding are a common complaint, cracked and / or bleeding nipples can make nursing even more painful and difficult.

Unfortunately the amount of written word on nursing and promoted by all, overwhelms a first time mom like us and very little is written on how difficult can it be emotionally and painful physically if baby doesn't latch and pumping is a way to deal with it.

My Canadian OB - GYN was the only one in town who would let me labor without an IV, and while she arrived to catch the baby leaving me to rely heavily on my two doulas - in - training and a few clueless nurses, my daughter was born after 15 hours of extremely painful back labor.

And then when we got home his latches were very, very painful and we came to find out that he was tongue tied so we got his tongue clipped and his latch was much better but he was in a lot of pain from the tongue clip so he actually stopped nursing altogether.

So that was a great visit it felt a little awkward at first because that lactation consultation its designed for little babies, its designed for the new kids and here he was 10 months old and crawling but we still needed help and if I hadn't gone in it probably would've been the end of our nursing, I had to use ointments I had a lot like, it was really painful and uncomfortable.

ROCHELLE MCLEAN: Usually with thrush a mom has had weeks or months of pain free nursing and it's felt really comfortable and then suddenly it becomes painful.

Due to the frequent feedings and the commonality of improper latching, of those issues that many new moms experience is sore or cracked nipples that can make nursing or pumping exceptionally painful.

Before you get the hang of it, nursing can be painful when breasts become engorged or nipples get irritated.

A rash or any other type of skin irritation on your breast, areola, or nipple can make it painful to nurse to your child.

Swollen blood vessels and extra swelling in the breast tissue itself, combined with an abundance of milk, may make your breasts temporarily painful and engorged, but nursing frequently in the first few days will help relieve any discomfort.

Instead, I (mostly) heard horror stories of traumatic births, shared in painful detail, all meant to try to persuade me into having a home birth instead of a delivering in a hospital with doctors, nurses, and access to pain medication.

I had three kids all nursed until over 2 years of age, but the first month is very painful.

The sore nipples and the painful engorged breasts, not to mention the aftermath — for those of you who have breastfed you know what I'm talking about here — the post nursing «droop.»

Other women find that they do not produce enough milk or that the process of nursing is painful for them.

There are literally hundreds of things that can contribute to painful or ineffective nursing.

The first couple of weeks were painful, and I had to pump a little milk when my milk would first come in so that the newborn could latch on, but other than that, we had no problems other than the fact that some of my family were not supportive of me nursing for over 6 months and my husband was jealous, but I am so glad that I stuck with it!

Learn whether it's safe to nurse your baby when you have the painful symptoms of mastitis or whether it's best not to breastfeed.

The hospital may leave out the parts about painful feedings, risk of infections or leaking straight through the nursing bra.

Pumping instead of nursing for a few days may be uncomfortable, but it won't be painful and it will buy you time to recover.

Perhaps the early days of nursing have been painful and frustrating, or we are exhausted because our baby is waking up every hour during the night.

Common problems associated with breastfeeding include the inability of the baby to latch on, painful nursing (i.e., sore, cracked nipples), poor milk production and a lack of adequate weight gain by the baby because they are not getting enough food.

Within minutes of her arrival, our latch was corrected, my baby was happily nursing, and I realized that breastfeeding should never be incredibly painful like that.

If your baby only has your nipple in his mouth, nursing will be painful; if he has a wide open mouth that takes in some or all of the areola (depending on the size of your areola) deep into his mouth, nursing will not be painful.

Nursing my full - term newborn twins was not painful, and has been the happiest time of day (or night).

If nursing is too painful, even with careful attention to latch and positioning, consider the use of a nipple shield to protect nipples, until damage is resolved (see Using a Nipple Shield hand - out).

«The first week it was painful when my daughter ate, and when she was done, my nipples looked like the top of a tube of lipstick — kind of triangular,» says Kimberley Collins of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, who's still nursing her 6 - month - old daughter.

I also hated those early painful days of nursing because yeah, who could possibly enjoy something that feels like you're sticking a delicate part of your body into the gaping maws of a pencil sharpener?

I may have mentioned this before but I was in a rail accident about ten years ago in India and a doctor ordered several nurses to hold me down and insert a Foley catheter that I didn't want or need (in my opinion) I had a broken femur, collarbone and one of those claw like hair clips imbedded in my scalp but being cathed like that is the most painful memory to recall.

Nursing is hard and painful at first, but so is having a baby, it's just another part of being a mother.

Many of us breastfeeding moms struggle with painful latching, constant nursing, cracked nipples, fussy feeders, engorged breast and / or plugged ducts just to list a few.

I decided to start drinking this tea to help my boobs adjust to the less frequent nursing sessions, as they don't have a large storage capacity and have always become hard and painful with only 2 - 3 ounces per breast... so I was getting uncomfortable before our nighttime nursing sessions and I longed to be rid of pumping and just be that mom that can let her kid nurse whenever and not be in pain.

While our bodies are designed to nurse and nourish our babies, the first weeks of doing so can be exhausting, frustrating and downright painful.

I remembered how painful the first month of nursing was with my son but then I realized exactly why it was so worth working through it.

For some, it will difficult and painful, and some will experience breast refusal, where, for some reason, the baby just will not nurse and will refuse to suck at the breast even if that's technically the only source of food it has.

This can be painful to mom and result in improper nursing and incomplete emptying of the breast.

Your baby's strike could be caused by any number of factors, including mastitis (which can change the way your milk tastes), teething, an ear infection that makes swallowing painful, or a cold that makes it harder to breathe (and therefore harder to nurse).

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).

The location of the plug may shift.A plugged duct will typically feel more painful before a feeding and less tender afterward, and the plugged area will usually feel less lumpy or smaller after nursing.

The combination of nipple sensitivity in early pregnancy and nursing a hungry baby can be painful.

Would have saved us both from 12 months of sleep deprivation, painful nursing and colic!!