The beads act as a focus
point as baby nurses and are great for teething infants because they're soft and gentle on gums and when cutting teeth.
Not exact matches
But then, I've extended
nursed two kids,
as have my mama friends, so maybe BF - ing has become totally normal to me (in fact, bottle - fed
babies surprise me more at this
point!).
In most pictures of
nursing,
baby seems slightly under the breast - this is because
as breasts enlarge w / pregnancy / milk, nipples tend to move lower on breast and
point down.
I see a lot of women who continue to have overactive letdown and so
babies starts
nursing a little bit less like they switch either having solid or kind of more than natural weaning process but until that
point as baby is
nursing a lot I do tend to feel a lot moms continue to have an overactive letdown and it's not so much that that goes away, it's just that mom and
baby are better at handling it, so it's not a big of a problem
Stories collected will serve
as resource for mothers to reach their breastfeeding goals (whether it be
as ambitious
as to breastfeed past the first year, overcome the stigma of
nursing in public or to simply know it's okay to stop
nursing baby when mom is at that
point.)
ROSEY RODRIGUEZ: I think I have regulated about 3, 4 months but at that
point you know I think I did continue to have the oversupply and the overactive letdown but
as you know we we're talking about we'd learned how to deal, how to manage and
as you know our
babies grow it's kind of better for them that they can take it so much and you know 5 minutes and sleep we're done
nursing and that's it and you got all your nutrients your ready to go
Thanks so much for sharing this, I thought I was the only one who has had these ups and downs and couldn't find anyone who has
nursed as long
as I have or didn't absolutely love it every day (most days it's my saving grace;) my «
baby» is 3 and shows no signs of stopping at this
point... this helps me realize that there is still joy and a light at the end of the tunnel!!
As a case in
point, a mother recently said to me at a mother - support meeting that her
baby girl didn't really need to
nurse whenever she showed feeding cues because she was mostly doing «non-nutritive sucking.»
My hubby loves having the
babies in the bed with us
as do I. I SO agree with what is the
point of
nursing if you have to get UP to do it.
Also,
as Bettina, mom of one,
points out,
babies don't just
nurse for nourishment.
If the next feeding he doesn't
nurse as well then he may need a little bit, so it's a gradual decrease of supplementation
as the
babies feeding better and many times that supplementation at that
point if mom is using a breast pump is breast milk and so if it's formula to begin with then
as her milk supply increases in volume we switch it over, Some moms are under the impression that it's the formula that treats it, no, it's the milk in general, the feeding that treats it, it's not that breast milk is better than formula, I mean, we know that breast milk is better than formula but it's not that formula is better, it's just that sometimes the quantity is the key, absolutely