Not exact matches
I
gave up both for health reasons before pregnancy, plus I
breastfeed and also caffeine makes me jittery and I have
trouble sleeping so it's a no go for me.
Also - and I'm not proud of this - I had a theory that many
breastfeeding «problems» were a result of women waiting too long to have kids; that we were a selfish generation and that my peers would just
give up too easily, at the first sign of
trouble; that we couldn't be bothered in the first place.
When women have
trouble breastfeeding, they're either prodded to try harder by well - meaning lactation consultants or told to
give up by doctors.
Over the last few days we have been showing a few examples as to what we mean by their tactics such as - Excluding
breastfeeding off forms when they ask about the way the baby gets fed, formula samples being sent to homes that never even signed
up, Hospitals
giving mothers formula samples even after they explicitly state they will be
breastfeeding, Changing some words on the can to target
breastfeeding mothers to buy their formula, I even tried calling into the «Lactation service» they offer for free and pretended I was having
trouble with supply so asked what I should do.
I know it's easy to
give up on nursing when
trouble strikes, but it's so true what they say — every baby, and every
breastfeeding relationship, is different.
But there was one major problem: since I was already having such
troubles with
breastfeeding, following PDF completely devastated my milk supply and I
gave up trying to pump and feed.
even after that i had
trouble breastfeeding so i finally
gave up and started
giving him expressed milk in bottle.