Breast feeding, pros and cons

neverdespairgirl

sooz wrote: »

I mean what new mum puts on that much make up, and irons her clothes?

If i could find clean clothes, it was a plus. For the first 6 months (and still now, if I think about it, some 2 years down the line) my iron & I were barely aquainted.

Make up is still mostly limited to concealer (and it has to be touche eclat, nothing else comes close to hiding those bags under my eyes)

nearly forgot...who doesn't sit down to breastfeed? Particularly, some of those babies looked HEAVY!

I agree with that - touche eclat rocks!

Also, there is no way when DS was a newborn that I would have got all dolled up like that, you would just know that a load of spit-up or liquid poo would get all over it. :rotfl:

suzieq

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Also, there is no way when DS was a newborn that I would have got all dolled up like that, you would just know that a load of spit-up or liquid poo would get all over it. :rotfl:

Not unless it was when I was handing DD over to OH, and off for a night out with the girls! :T

nadnad

i've just taken a look at the ads and whilst they are completely unrealistic - its an AD CAMPAIGN!! its not meant to be realistic its showing an idealised perspective. I think its a step forward to showing people that breast feeding can be done by anybody, all sorts of people, and its trying to say that you're life needn't stop just because you BF. Which is a good thing! I personally dont see anything "yuck" about it and i think that is a strange comment to make. Its the most natural thing in the world. Literally.

elisebutt65

To get this back on thread, I'll offer some Pro's and Con's for the OP

Pro's - It's free!!!!
It gives mum some much needed relax time

No faffing around with bottles

Gives mum an excuse not to lift a finger when relly's come visiting

Con's - The PAIN!!! But that goes after the 1st month or so

No-one seems to warn you about the after pains of contraction - which get worse with every child - I was crying for about 3 weeks everytime I fed with horrible cramps - Got checked for infection but apparently this is normal - Like a coathanger or crochet hook shoved up your wazoo and then pulled down very, very slowly!!!!!

Getting over the initial embarrassment of BF in public - again - this vanishes after the first few times

I invested in Silicon Nipple shields - get them for your OH before she goes in and put them in her hospital bag, along with a tube of camillosan (or whatever it's called) She will thank you for it if she decides to go for it:o

I didn't really have any choice about it as my mum was midwife - baby was clamped to my boobie as soon as the first wail was uttered:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: But TBH - It was the most amazing thing - I was a weirdie as well - BFing until DS's were 2, even though I went back to work when DS1 was 5 weeks old - had to -to pay mortgage, but I expressed fine - I fed off one and expressed 8oz's off t'other - Got used to feeding and pumping at the same time and I had sooo much milk I did consider donating some until it slowed down a bit. Both were fine at dual feeding once they got the hang of the bottles - I used the Avent ones which were a bit more boobie shaped:rolleyes:

Oh - and I co-slept as well - Had a drop leaf cot which was pushed right up to the edge and was level with my bed, with the drop leaf taken off -IYSWIM? so babies had their own 'space' and I could just roll them off my boobie when they'd finished at night.

I think the most important thing is that you are interested and encouraging to your OH - Do not denigrate her if she decides to FF instead as you don't want her feeling useless - as long as baby is healthy that's all that really matters.

nadnad

people keep saying about the pain of breast feeding, but can i just say that not everyone suffers, like I said before I didn't have anything like this. And with regards nipple shields, the mid wife told me not to use them as the sucking action required is slightly different and may confuse baby. She told me this after one of the mid wives in the hospital gave them to me!! I was given Lansinoh cream in the hospital and you can get it on prescription if you need it (so i've been told).

surreysaver

Nicki wrote: »

I think this just goes to show that it isn't always the "breast-feeding hippies" who look down on other mums and consider themselves to be superior!

* spoken as a hippy myself!

Not trying to look down. Just trying to show you lot that there is more to life than breast feeding, and giving you a taste of your own medicine.

elisebutt65

surreysaver wrote: »

Not trying to look down. Just trying to show you lot that there is more to life than breast feeding, and giving you a taste of your own medicine.

Don't be so bloody patronising!!! I think we all know there is more to life than breast feeding - a lot of manage it and work at the same time!

It's idiots with your attitude that have caused mothers to hide Breastfeeding and made it a stigma to do in public when it's the most natural thing in the world - It was someone like you that ordered me into the toilet in a cafe!!!! Until I refused to leave and he called the police who then threatened to remove him to a cell :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

neverdespairgirl

elisebutt65 wrote: »

It was someone like you that ordered me into the toilet in a cafe!!!! Until I refused to leave and he called the police who then threatened to remove him to a cell :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We were in a hotel when DS was about 5 months old, and I was BF discretely. An old bat came over and practically poked her nose in my cleavage to check I was BF, then announced loudly to her other half that it was disgusting, and that the baby ought to be in bed anyway (6pm!)

I was slightly irriated, but amused when OH muttered (loudly) to me that she ought to be in her coffin.

surreysaver

elisebutt65 wrote: »

It's idiots with your attitude that have caused mothers to hide Breastfeeding and made it a stigma to do in public when it's the most natural thing in the world - It was someone like you that ordered me into the toilet in a cafe!!!! Until I refused to leave and he called the police who then threatened to remove him to a cell :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I think it is all you hippies doing the patronising. I do not have a problem with breastfeeding/breastfeeding in public. What I do have a problem with, as already stated, is all you hippies looking down on non-breastfeeders because they do not share your views / came to the same decision as you.

Katgoddess

siren13577 wrote: »

Breast milk is okay at room temperature for four hours, this will change if it's hot. It can keep in the fridge for 2 days but will need shaking as it can separate like normal milk and in the freezer for a month. You can get freezer bags for breast milk which are easy to use. Stand breast milk in hot water to heat up, don't microwave as it kills the healthy pre- and pro-biotics, or so my HV/MW told me.

There is lots of conflicting advice about expressed breastmilk storage. My health visitor (who is lead breastfeeding HV for area) told me the storage time depends on the fridge temperature. If you have a fridge with a temperature of 0-4 degrees you can store for 8 days.

This is the pdf of the leaflet she gave me:

http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/pdfs/BFNExpressing&Storing.pdf

The breastfeeding network has lots of good advice. Also the kellymom (US) website has a forum. Netmums message board has volunteer health visitors if you have any questions.