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As far as feeding-- ive been trying but with all of the drugs and low platelets, I have no milk yet.
I met with a lactation consultant today so I some more options....for now I am supplementing with formula.
As far as feeding-- ive been trying but with all of the drugs and low platelets, I have no milk yet.
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I'm glad things are looking better!
I'm glad things are looking better!
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Don't push yourself too hard; some of those lactation consultants can really make a mom feel guilty. It took a couple of weeks to come in with Olivia which was a shocker, because my milk was in (and it is not supposed to be) nearly a month before Alex was born! It never came in strong with Olivia, and I was never able to pump anything with her; kind of a bummer because I also never got a break from the monthly menace - it started up 3 weeks after she was born! With Alex I had nearly 2 years off even though I only nursed for 6 mo with him and then dried up promptly when my dad suddenly died. Olivia was more like 2 years but half formula. She was so cranky whenever I stopped that I kept caving in.
Relax, enjoy your time with your daughter, don't stress if you need to supplement , although that is easier said than done with the price of formula! Ask all your Dr.'s and nurses for free samples and if you join a new-mom's support group, ask your nursing friends to do the same. I even signed up with one of the companies that makes formula for e-mails and coupon offers and they mailed me enough formula to last a couple of months, including a half dozen of those easy already made up and in a bottle things which were very convenient to have at times.
I took the new mom classes at Evergreen Hospital. They were a bit heavy handed pushing the whole breast-feeding thing. I met a friend there with twins and she felt soo guilty because she couldn't. One of the classes they had a woman come in and give a talk; she had her very large 4 year-old son with her who was off playing with hot-wheels in the corner. When he got hungry, he just went over to his mom, lifted her shirt, pushed her bra out of the way and started nursing! I think most of us in the room were pretty shocked. I'm sorry, but if my kid is old enough to walk over to the refrigerator, open it and pour himself a glass of milk, that is how he's getting it! (this was at Evergreen Hospital the year they were on the cover of SELF for an award they got from the World Health Organization - they have more babies leave the hospital nursing than at any other hospital in the world! I hated that pressure!)
Don't push yourself too hard; some of those lactation consultants can really make a mom feel guilty. It took a couple of weeks to come in with Olivia which was a shocker, because my milk was in (and it is not supposed to be) nearly a month before Alex was born! It never came in strong with Olivia, and I was never able to pump anything with her; kind of a bummer because I also never got a break from the monthly menace - it started up 3 weeks after she was born! With Alex I had nearly 2 years off even though I only nursed for 6 mo with him and then dried up promptly when my dad suddenly died. Olivia was more like 2 years but half formula. She was so cranky whenever I stopped that I kept caving in.
Relax, enjoy your time with your daughter, don't stress if you need to supplement , although that is easier said than done with the price of formula! Ask all your Dr.'s and nurses for free samples and if you join a new-mom's support group, ask your nursing friends to do the same. I even signed up with one of the companies that makes formula for e-mails and coupon offers and they mailed me enough formula to last a couple of months, including a half dozen of those easy already made up and in a bottle things which were very convenient to have at times.
I took the new mom classes at Evergreen Hospital. They were a bit heavy handed pushing the whole breast-feeding thing. I met a friend there with twins and she felt soo guilty because she couldn't. One of the classes they had a woman come in and give a talk; she had her very large 4 year-old son with her who was off playing with hot-wheels in the corner. When he got hungry, he just went over to his mom, lifted her shirt, pushed her bra out of the way and started nursing! I think most of us in the room were pretty shocked. I'm sorry, but if my kid is old enough to walk over to the refrigerator, open it and pour himself a glass of milk, that is how he's getting it! (this was at Evergreen Hospital the year they were on the cover of SELF for an award they got from the World Health Organization - they have more babies leave the hospital nursing than at any other hospital in the world! I hated that pressure!)
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Don't push yourself too hard; some of those lactation consultants can really make a mom feel guilty. It took a couple of weeks to come in with Olivia which was a shocker, because my milk was in (and it is not supposed to be) nearly a month before Alex was born! It never came in strong with Olivia, and I was never able to pump anything with her; kind of a bummer because I also never got a break from the monthly menace - it started up 3 weeks after she was born! With Alex I had nearly 2 years off even though I only nursed for 6 mo with him and then dried up promptly when my dad suddenly died. Olivia was more like 2 years but half formula. She was so cranky whenever I stopped that I kept caving in.
Relax, enjoy your time with your daughter, don't stress if you need to supplement , although that is easier said than done with the price of formula! Ask all your Dr.'s and nurses for free samples and if you join a new-mom's support group, ask your nursing friends to do the same. I even signed up with one of the companies that makes formula for e-mails and coupon offers and they mailed me enough formula to last a couple of months, including a half dozen of those easy already made up and in a bottle things which were very convenient to have at times.
I took the new mom classes at Evergreen Hospital. They were a bit heavy handed pushing the whole breast-feeding thing. I met a friend there with twins and she felt soo guilty because she couldn't. One of the classes they had a woman come in and give a talk; she had her very large 4 year-old son with her who was off playing with hot-wheels in the corner. When he got hungry, he just went over to his mom, lifted her shirt, pushed her bra out of the way and started nursing! I think most of us in the room were pretty shocked. I'm sorry, but if my kid is old enough to walk over to the refrigerator, open it and pour himself a glass of milk, that is how he's getting it! (this was at Evergreen Hospital the year they were on the cover of SELF for an award they got from the World Health Organization - they have more babies leave the hospital nursing than at any other hospital in the world! I hated that pressure!)
I took the same class. And when I decided nursing wasn't for me after 6 weeks I felt like I was judged at first. Then I got over it and realized that it is a personal choice and NOBODY should make anyone feel guilty. I also think nursing mom's are judged for nursing in public, even when they are very discreet about it. So I agree with Ogress, enjoy and do what is right for you, and your baby will do just fine as long as you love her.
Don't push yourself too hard; some of those lactation consultants can really make a mom feel guilty. It took a couple of weeks to come in with Olivia which was a shocker, because my milk was in (and it is not supposed to be) nearly a month before Alex was born! It never came in strong with Olivia, and I was never able to pump anything with her; kind of a bummer because I also never got a break from the monthly menace - it started up 3 weeks after she was born! With Alex I had nearly 2 years off even though I only nursed for 6 mo with him and then dried up promptly when my dad suddenly died. Olivia was more like 2 years but half formula. She was so cranky whenever I stopped that I kept caving in.
Relax, enjoy your time with your daughter, don't stress if you need to supplement , although that is easier said than done with the price of formula! Ask all your Dr.'s and nurses for free samples and if you join a new-mom's support group, ask your nursing friends to do the same. I even signed up with one of the companies that makes formula for e-mails and coupon offers and they mailed me enough formula to last a couple of months, including a half dozen of those easy already made up and in a bottle things which were very convenient to have at times.
I took the new mom classes at Evergreen Hospital. They were a bit heavy handed pushing the whole breast-feeding thing. I met a friend there with twins and she felt soo guilty because she couldn't. One of the classes they had a woman come in and give a talk; she had her very large 4 year-old son with her who was off playing with hot-wheels in the corner. When he got hungry, he just went over to his mom, lifted her shirt, pushed her bra out of the way and started nursing! I think most of us in the room were pretty shocked. I'm sorry, but if my kid is old enough to walk over to the refrigerator, open it and pour himself a glass of milk, that is how he's getting it! (this was at Evergreen Hospital the year they were on the cover of SELF for an award they got from the World Health Organization - they have more babies leave the hospital nursing than at any other hospital in the world! I hated that pressure!)
I took the same class. And when I decided nursing wasn't for me after 6 weeks I felt like I was judged at first. Then I got over it and realized that it is a personal choice and NOBODY should make anyone feel guilty. I also think nursing mom's are judged for nursing in public, even when they are very discreet about it. So I agree with Ogress, enjoy and do what is right for you, and your baby will do just fine as long as you love her.
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Beautiful painting CL! Is this one you're going to enter in the fair?
Beautiful painting CL! Is this one you're going to enter in the fair?
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What a perfect wave! Now there's a photo begging to be painted. We saw a lot of those Hawaiian chickens when we were on Kawaii a few years ago. I thought it was pretty cool, but never considered how full of undesirable stuff they must be.
What a perfect wave! Now there's a photo begging to be painted. We saw a lot of those Hawaiian chickens when we were on Kawaii a few years ago. I thought it was pretty cool, but never considered how full of undesirable stuff they must be.
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Ditto Ogress and Kim - I wanted so badly to be able to feed my own baby, but Lily was a "lazy" eater and would fall sleep soon after I would start feeding her because it was too much work and that baby LOVED to sleep. I saw a lactation consultant and you don't even want to know how that went. She was enlisting the help of my bff who had moved in with us to cook and help out the first two weeks after Lily was born and frankly, having my gf helping with the breast feeding was just getting a little too weird even for us.
I had also had a C-section and when my baby was still losing weight after almost 2 weeks, my overwhelming feeling of failing her because I couldn't feed her right, guilt from DH's corner because formula "was expensive", combined with a little post-partem depression wasn't a good combination. My gf and mother stepped in and said, "it's time you get over it and start feeding that baby formula". It was a whole new world after that. I felt better, DH had to learn to shut his trap and Lily started gaining weight like a champ, sleeping for 3 hours at a time, waking up to eat and play and going back to sleep for another 3 hour nap.
I hate when people or organizations try to make you feel bad for not being able to feed your baby. If it works, then great!
Ditto Ogress and Kim - I wanted so badly to be able to feed my own baby, but Lily was a "lazy" eater and would fall sleep soon after I would start feeding her because it was too much work and that baby LOVED to sleep. I saw a lactation consultant and you don't even want to know how that went. She was enlisting the help of my bff who had moved in with us to cook and help out the first two weeks after Lily was born and frankly, having my gf helping with the breast feeding was just getting a little too weird even for us.
I had also had a C-section and when my baby was still losing weight after almost 2 weeks, my overwhelming feeling of failing her because I couldn't feed her right, guilt from DH's corner because formula "was expensive", combined with a little post-partem depression wasn't a good combination. My gf and mother stepped in and said, "it's time you get over it and start feeding that baby formula". It was a whole new world after that. I felt better, DH had to learn to shut his trap and Lily started gaining weight like a champ, sleeping for 3 hours at a time, waking up to eat and play and going back to sleep for another 3 hour nap.
I hate when people or organizations try to make you feel bad for not being able to feed your baby. If it works, then great!
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