Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

Mrs_pbradley936

Have a look here and see if it helps you.

http://www.babycenter.com/general/8785.html

ooobedoo

That website is ace, it's given me fresh determination to breatfeed!

loopy_lass

ooobedoo wrote:

That website is ace, it's given me fresh determination to breatfeed!

Awww great news... i wanted to but couldnt feed my DD, cried n cried about giving her bottles, anyways, wanted to say i saw a woman breast feeding a tiny tiny new baby at the weekend and it looked sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute... awww. so natural Awwwwwwwwwwww

go for it if you can

loops

ooobedoo

I tried with DS, but the midwife said I had to put him on the bottle. I have no intention of giving up this time. I really want to feed her myself and think it will be really good if I am able to manage it

clairehi

Oobedoo, good luck, bf does not come easily to all of us - if you find it hard make sure you ask for help from midwife / bf counsellor. I found it got a lot better after the first week.

[Deleted User]

I agree, it took me 5 days to teach my son to latch on, it is not easy!
In the meantime the hospital gave him my mil in a little cup, not in a bottle, it worked great!

loopy_lass

<<< sits wondering if they have these kinds of carryings on in third world countries >>> little uns seem to know what they are supposed to do once born & find the milk....

wonder what the difference is.........


MMmmm perhaps i should get out more instead of pondering strange things ....


loops

Thriftylady

loopy_lass wrote:

<<< sits wondering if they have these kinds of carryings on in third world countries >>>

but maybe they do? they have high infant mortality rates in the thirld world too. I'm obviously not suggesting that those poor babes have just starved becausee they couldn't get the hang of breastfeeding, but I'm sure there are probably women there who it doesn't work for either. The difference is that they have no choice but to persevere.

I cried buckets when I couldn't manage to breastfeed, but I thank my lucky stars that at least I had the option of feeding her something else. Its not as good, and I feel guilty about that, but at least she is thriving.

Mrs_pbradley936

loops in third world countries they do not have pain control for labour and one of the down sides to that is is makes the baby sleepy. Neither do they have a well meaning somebody on hand with a bottle just waiting for you to fail at the first hurdle. Of course they have deaths in childbirth as well so I am by no means a "Mother Nature knows best" freak. The way to suceed at breast feeding is to offer the baby the breast frequently AND NOT TO GIVE A BOTTLE JUST IN CASE. If the baby has a bottle s/he will not be hungry so will not suckle on you and you will not establish a milk supply.

Mrs_pbradley936

Sorry hit the button too quick. It did used to be easier - nothing to do with nature but when they used to keep you in for a week or more you had nothing else to do but establish your milk supply. Now they send you home the same day and if you do not have someone near you to help and are perhaps feeding baby at 2 in the morning, getting up to a four year old who has wet the bed at 4.30 am and doing everything else those of us that have been there know about I wonder that anyone can feed now.