People may tell you horror
stories about breastfeeding babies biting so hard that they drew blood.
And it's where we love to hear your funny
stories about you breastfeeding your babies, or pumping for your babies, and let's just say things don't exactly go the way you thought they were going to go in your head, something happens, usually something embarrassing.
It's a teaching hospital too which I don't think is a bad thing — but that may have something to do with the many, many
stories about breastfed babies discharged after having lost 10 % + of their body weight but with no advice to the parents about how to monitor.
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While I can share so many more
stories about women's experiences
breastfeeding a
baby with a tongue tie (and the improvements they had after they got their
baby's ties revised) I thought it would be great to actually talk with a professional who lasers tongue and lip ties on a daily basis.
Diana West, BA, IBCLC Photo: Kimberly Chandler Identification and treatment: tongue - tie & the
breastfed baby Many new mothers hear horror
stories about how painful
breastfeeding can be.
If you wish to help parents learn how to protect their newborns from accidental starvation, please share this
story and sign our petition to demand that the CDC, the AAP, the U.S. Surgeon General and the WHO / UNICEF
Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative warn parents
about the dangers of newborn and infant starvation from insufficient exclusive
breastfeeding.
Before I had my daughter, I heard a ton of unpleasant
stories about breastfeeding: mastitis, problems latching, cracked nipples,
baby not getting...
I was a new mom, and the only thing I knew
about breastfeeding was from what I read in numerous
baby books, and the horror
stories I heard from friends (you know what I'm talking
about).
I got to be pretty good at brushing off the comments and ignoring the unwanted advice, but the more I looked into it, the more
stories I heard
about parents of
breastfed babies being hassled by family members, strangers or even their own doctors
about the lack of «adequate» weight gain, regardless of the size of the parents or the health of the child.
It doesn't matter how their birth went, how their feeding journey went, how their weight loss
story went... maybe they love their body, maybe they're happy with the way their
baby needed to be fed, maybe
breastfeeding didn't hurt, maybe they're over the rainbow excited
about their birth, and maybe they had sex a week later.
These 15
stories go even further than the public shaming of moms
about their
breastfeeding; these particular cases escalated to the point where these moms were either arrested or threatened with arrest for feeding their
babies while out in public!
I think that we really don't hear
stories about trans men
breastfeeding nearly often enough, and I'm glad that you are pushing through the challenges from your partner's family to do what is best for your
baby.
They tell
stories of deep and meaningful connections, and talk
about how they felt like they and their
baby were «one» when they would
breastfeed.
Funny
story, when I was pregnant the first time around I didn't know much
about breastfeeding and I read somewhere that
babies nurse every two hours.
She would say how it was her favourite thing
about having a
baby and would tell me
stories about what is was like
breastfeeding my sister and I.
I LOVE finding others and hearing their
stories about childbirth,
breastfeeding, and striving to raising our
babies naturally!
Wolff, Ashley ONLY THE CAT SAW Puffin, 1997 A beautifully illustrated
story about a cat who sees the sunset, the sunrise, the rain, and the mother
breastfeeding the
baby while everyone in the family is busy doing other things.
I've heard so many
stories of women who couldn't or even didn't want to
breastfeed and were subsequently racked by guilt
about it, and I think that just detracts from the joy of raising a
baby.