Sentences with phrase «told about breastfeeding»

Plus, nine weird things no one told you about breastfeeding.

Actually, there are lots of things I'm glad no one told me about breastfeeding in public.

I have been helping women breastfeed their babies for six years, and have been nursing my own children for over eight years, but I am still floored when I hear some of the things women are told about breastfeeding — from their doctors, midwives, friends, grandmothers, Dr. Google, and even other lactation consultants.

I have asked «is there anything I can tell you about breastfeeding, or any questions I can answer, that might make you lean in favour of breastfeeding?»

I felt like I had to defend myself to everyone who knew he had to go back in the hospital and tell them about the breastfeeding experience.

But here are 15 things they don't tell you about breastfeeding...

Although I never questioned if I was going to breastfeed, here are nine things people didn't tell me about breastfeeding I wish I had known:

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Don't worry, hubby will tell MIL to MYOB if she says anything about us breastfeeding exclusively for the first 6 months at least (she once tried to put egg in our oldest daughter's mouth when she was only 3 months old!

So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing in public, or feeling weird about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)

I didn't even know why I felt so bad about considering giving up, because everyone, even medical experts, was telling me my baby would be fine if I didn't breastfeed, and I personally had nothing against formula at all (again, I fully expected to wean to it eventually, probably around the six month mark).

You and I have talked before about how frustrated I am with how my breastfeeding experience turned out, but the information you've added here about myths they tell you in the hospital makes it even worse.

I told her about another friend who gave up breastfeeding her 1st child at 3 weeks, due to bad medical advice, about an abcess.

I want to tell you a bit about what they both said and then try to create a more objective view of the economic pros and cons of breastfeeding.

This was so interesting... as a nurse, I have found no matter what I tell moms about sagging breasts and breastfeeding... they believe, friends and other women's experiences instead.

Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to birth my next two at home).

, a mama who reached out to tell us about how the Whole30 benefited her breastfeeding baby.

If you have already had breast surgery and wish to breastfeed, it is important to tell your current doctor about the surgery.

Pregnant women are often not told about the possible consequences of birth interventions when it comes to breastfeeding.

At every single prenatal and post-natal appointment, doctors and nurses tell expecting parents about the miraculous benefits of breastfeeding.

I mean, I knew that formula was a perfectly suitable alternative to breastfeeding, but the list of BS things I told myself about formula feeding was a long one and, well, that list left me feeing anything other than confident and happy in my decision.

I would listen in great interest whenever anyone had something to tell me about birth, breastfeeding, parenting etc..

Anyone who tells you this doesn't know the first thing about breastfeeding.

Once you know about the pause you can cut through so much of the nonsense breastfeeding mothers are being told — such as «Feed the baby twenty minutes on each side».

That's AEROflowinc.com to start the process and if you're already breastfeeding, they do have that online store that Courtney was telling you about with breast pumps supplies and accessories and you can use our special promo code which is newmommy, N E W M O M M Y, and get 10 % off your order at www.aeroflowmomandbaby.com.

He told me that he'd only do it for a mother who was incredibly passionate about breastfeeding, and he could only do the tongue, and not the lip.

They have been at pre-school for a year now, and for those worried about kids still breastfeeding at that age I can say they don't ask for it at pre-school (too much other stuff running through their minds I guess), they don't get bullied about it because they haven't told the other kids that they breastfeed (too much other stuff running through their minds I guess), and when they start big school next year, if they are still nursing, I expect it to be much the same.

People may tell you horror stories about breastfeeding babies biting so hard that they drew blood.

Just tell the truth about breastfeeding.

It must be so hard to be a dude with an opinion that nobody cares about, but that's the situation in which poor Bristol pubgoer Sheldon Sparks finds himself after complaining to the Internet about seeing a woman breastfeeding, only to be told to shut up and mind his own business.

Dr. Marinelli, please tell us a bit about your background and how you came to be so passionate about supporting breastfeeding.

I couldn't believe that she would keep suggesting this when she knew that my little boy ended up hospitalised with dehydration and massive weight loss because he just couldn't get the hang of breastfeeding even when I was literally leaking with milk and I'd told her I was still struggling coming to terms with how poorly he'd been and how guilty I felt about it.

So many women don't breastfeed, because they were told they «can't» for whatever reason (and of course I'm not talking about the 1 % of women who are legitimately medically incapable of breastfeeding), so when they see another mother doing it, they feel a combination of resentment towards themselves and guilt, and then turn that resentment outwards onto the mother.

This one poster (who tends to be less enlightened than most of the posters on there) started howling about how she had every right to do that, for the transgendered person to stop whining, and then started comparing it to everyone on the site who told her she was stupid / evil / poisoning her daughter by not breastfeeding.

Perhaps the most important fact about breastfeeding, and one that Nestlé certainly will not tell parents, is this: biased information about breastfeeding is everywhere.

Sometimes healthcare providers get into the act, telling breastfeeding mothers they should watch the clock to make sure their baby breastfeeds «long enough to get the hindmilk,» with the number of minutes recommended varying by adviserWhat do we really need to know about foremilk and hindmilk?

So here I am to tell you about the myriad problems you can run into when you're breastfeeding — and what you can do to make things better.

To tell you the truth I did not know much about breastfeeding back then.

I had no idea that was an option and, like you, was following what I'd been told about exclusively breastfeeding.

Suzanne: Dr. Marinelli, please tell us a bit about your background and how you came to be so passionate about supporting breastfeeding.

Although WHO and other health advocates raise the importance of breastfeeding during the first two years of life and beyond, Nestlé tells investors its own first 1000 days strategy is about Nestlé product solutions.

Once you know about the pause you can cut through so much of the nonsense breastfeeding mothers are being told.

Another woman before her told me she didn't talk about her breastfeeding journey except around a few key friends because it was so discouraging and difficult she didn't want anyone else to feel sorry for her or not try breastfeeding out of fear that they would have a similar experience.

I've already had a few young women message me about breastfeeding and ask for help, telling me how I make them more confident to breastfeed.»

I knew nothing about clefts and next to nothing about the mechanics of breastfeeding, but my instincts told me that we could do it — we could at least try.

If you're worried about a medication, or have been told that you can't breastfeed while taking a medication, you can call their hotline [phone] or visit www.infantrisk.com for the most up - to - date information.

I cloth diaper, breastfeed, and make my own baby food so when a friend told me about amber teething necklaces I had to try it out.

If you have no idea what those are, you're in luck, because Dianne Cassidy will tells us all about them, along with why there seems to be a tongue tie resurgence, how it can affect your best breastfeeding intentions, and what you can do about it.

Also, lactation consultants and other actual breastfeeding experts don't typically go around giving drive - by expert breastfeeding advice so, chances are, if someone is randomly trying to tell you your business while you're trying to breastfeed your baby, they probably don't have a clue what they're talking about.

So she was out in public with her eight week old son and it says that she was at a cafe and she happened to be breastfeeding her baby and it says an elderly women, in not sure if it actually lists her name or sorry her age, but anyway this elderly women comes up to her and honestly the mom was like «oh no, she's going to tell me to cover up, she's going to be like, be mean about this or you know or how dare I be, you know doing this in public kind of thing» and the only thing the elderly wanted to do was to help the mom be able to eat.

Breastfeeding pain is generally under the category of «Why didn't anyone ever tell be about this before I had a baby?!»