There are
times I feel like I feed into the stress as an AP teacher.
Not exact matches
Of course I still make sure they are
fed and walked and everything, and I try to get some petting
time in, but it just
feels like a 5 year old and a 2 year old suck up all my patience and all my emotional energy.
At
times it
feels like they are talking about the 1950s housewife, staying at home and
feeding the family on the housekeeping money handed over by her husband, the breadwinner!
I,
like so many, wanted to be the «perfect mom,» and though formula
feeding doesn't make anyone a bad mom, I still
felt a fair amount of «mom guilt» every
time I'd give my newborn a bottle.
In short, just wondering your
time window for the nursing and solids - I
feel like half my day is now lost to
feeding.
When one syringe - full was insufficient to sate the baby, I often
fed her multiple syringes at a
time, even though I
felt like it was wrong to do so.
Of course I still
feed classic toddler snacks
like goldfish crackers and animal cookies, but I do try hard to
feed my kids as nutritiously as possible when I can, so
times that its not so easy I
feel like it balances out.
I
felt like breastfeeding was so much easier than formula for me because I just
fed them at the same
time.
(Sometimes I put him in my bed during that
time if he wakes up at 5 so it's easier to keep paci in but he's asleep) Thus I
feel like he doesn't really need this
Feed out of hunger but just waking up by habit.
We are having so many issues right now that I don't even know what to focus on and I
feel like I am still all over the place with him and confusing him more... I think he can definitely handle a 3 - hour schedule, but in working on the 45 minute intruder, I find myself
feeding him before that scheduled
time, then the pattern is thrown off for the rest of the day.
If he is
feedings more than eight to 12
times a day and anything else about his behavior is worrying you I
feel like the best cause of action is to see an experienced International Board Certified Lactation Consultant to help determine what is going on and whether it's just a variation of normal.
Some
times there are reasons we can't breast
feed If you want to do it know you are doing the best and don't let some one push you into
feeling like a failure if it doesn't work some babys can't or just don't want to latch.
for almost one and half month i had use the shield and only then my baby use to nurse from me and then i even pumped milk and had to give formula for a month since brest milk was not sufficient for my baby, so many
times i have searched and read articles after articles to wean off the nipple shield and finally suceeded on 21 st november night but then again day
time baby used to fuss for shield, now i don't remember the date but one fine morning she nursed in the usual normal position (earlier i used the breast
feeding pillow) it was the happiest moment for me.But now the worry is her weight.She is gaining weight at very slow pace and many
times i
feel my breast don't have much milk.and now she suddenly don't
like to
feed from bottle.so the target is bottle
feed.
Unfortunately I bought into woo's claim that you could breast
feed exclusively no matter what and
felt like a big
time failure when I could not produce enough milk with my first daughter.
I
felt like a horrible mother though because after a few days I started producing milk but by that
time my son didn't want my milk I
felt pretty low... But I'm due to give birth in 5 weeks and I am going to breast
feed my daughter.
Sometimes he makes little cooing sighing noises as he
feeds, this is also too cute and I
feel like feeding times are really strengthening the bond between us.
Don't worry about
feeding in public — It
feels likes a big deal at the start, getting your breast out in a public place but once you've done it a couple
times it doesn't
feel scary at all.
For the first
time, I
felt like I was a total success in the
feeding department.
Way back when your tiny baby was a newborn,
feeding a couple of
times a night (which sometimes
felt like all night!)
Feed your newborn baby at least 8 to 12
times a day and get help early if your baby isn't latching on or if you don't
feel like your milk is coming in by the
time your baby is 3 to 5 days old.
We just suspect what many of the reasons are, and some
feel like it's the baby's way, especially during that evening
time, and that is the most common
time when babies do cluster
feed because it's their awake
time.
I
felt like I was missing out on enjoying my children, rather than dreading
feeding time where I would be in pain again.
This means that parents can easily
feed two kids at the same
time comfortable without
feeling like they are being smothered.
when my first son was born in oct 05 i tried to breastfeed... my milk never came in... i tried for 3 days and my son was screaming in hunger and i could hear his belly rumble... the nurses were not very helpfull... when i got home i ended up formuala
feeding... my son is very healthy... i will try to breastfeed my second child but if i cant then i wont
feel like a bad mother...
like i did the first
time...
There were definitely
times with both my children (usually around 3 a.m.) when they would wake up for a
feeding and it seriously
felt like we were the only people on Earth who were awake.
I think they call that triple
feedings, I had to do that for a little bit too with my, with my girls and that, that you just
feel like you constantly have something on the breast or you're
feeding something it's
like, those three hours in between or whatever they tell you to do in the beginning
like, man you just have no
time off with triple
feedings
One of my favorite things to do after I come home from working a 12 hour overnight shift is to be able to call in bed with my little one and cuddle and play and
feed him and have that bonding
time and I mean I
feel like I wouldn't be able to get that as much maybe if I were just strictly bottle
feeding.
I would
feel like most first
time moms probably want to try it with that first and just go from there but don't ever be ashamed to
feed your baby.
We were on a beautiful schedule (7, 10, 1, 4, 7, 10), but I
felt like I was having to wake my 11 week old every
time for
feedings so I was going to let him sleep a bit longer and move to a 3.5 hour schedule.
«Don't
feel like you HAVE to tandem
feed,» says Torrie S. «I did a few
times, but I mostly
feed them one at a
time, alternating sides.
This was working for a while (by working, I mean I stopped
feeling like a human bottle and Maggie seemed to be getting more satisfying
feedings), but I was also doing anything and everything to help her sleep within 2 hours of wake
time like Weissbluth suggests.
«On demand»
feeding — when your newborn lets you know it's
time to eat — can leave you
feeling like you're grabbing a bottle every
time you turn around.
Little did the woman know that come
time to breastfeed I couldn't produce milk and I had to
feed via bottle... but thanks for making me
feel like a horrible mother for not breastfeeding... some people just don't think before they open their big mouths and their bull headed opinions.
I
felt gross when my son ate,
felt gross when I had to remove my shirt so I could
feed him,
felt gross every
time a
feeding session was over,
like my body had been used all over again.
You can make and freeze as many dough discs as you
feel like making and then whip this up in no
time the next
time you're
feeding a brood of hungry children.
since on the 3.5 hr schedule he does drink more at each
feed but I
feel like I am forcing him to drink the last bits each
time.
It happens all the
time,
like I just
fed her and am
feeling the pain already, it is
like a throbbing pain.
With so much to do you may
feel like you are wasting
time, but remember, you are
feeding and bonding with your baby and everyone needs some downtime.
I
felt like this many
times, wondering if I was producing enough milk to get through every 2 hour
feedings.
You can probably
feel when I'm suckling nutritively and swallowing lots of milk, and when I'm kind of relaxed about it,
feeding sort of
like I'm savoring a bowl of ice cream... you know how sometimes, you scrape just a tiny bit onto your spoon, because you want it to last a long
time?
I tried
feeding one at a
time and it
felt like as soon as I got the last one
fed and asleep the other woke back up.
And one of the things that they note again and again is that the natural process of emerging, finding the mother's contact the baby finding contact with the mother and then on it's own, in it's own
time in this particular way doing what we
like to call the breast crawl right [00:23:00] where the baby kind of moves themselves mostly with their heads and a little bit with those kicky legs you've been
feeling on the inside and they basically will move along the mother's body and find a breast all by themselves unassisted latch themselves on and have a good
feed.
Feeding time should be a calm and soothing
time not a
time of crying for the mommy.I
felt very guilty for not being able to breastfeed...
like I had failed him.
It is tempting when your nipples
feel like somebody took a cheese grater to them, to try and extend the
time between
feeds, to supplement with formula or to
feed only from the breast that doesn't hurt.
I'm so confused and don't
feel like I've been able to implement any consistency because I don't have the first
feeding time established yet and now he's waking up early from naps.
It
felt like glass shards coming out of my nipples every
time I
fed him or pumped and it was almost unbearable.
In the morning it
feels like he will have an hour of awake
time but then cluster
feed for 4 - 5 hours sometimes until a long afternoon nap and then cluster before he sleeps.
2 be honest i think ur being quite rude just because its ur belief that breast is best doesent mean its other peoples beleifs and shoving ur opinion down peoples throats and making them
feel bad isent great either, i wanted to try breast
feeding but had a difficult birth so my son was started on a bottle after being revived and i wasent in a great condition and its people
like u that make people
like me
feel a million
times worse about ourselfs
I just had my third baby and I
feel so stressed I forgot what cluster
feeding was
like but this
time I don't have any adults at home to take the other ones out.
If you
feel like skinny girls are the only ones being portrayed as healthy on your social
feeds, it's
time to give Katie a follow.