Breastfeeding Support - 6 months and beyond!

[lynnikins]

it makes me really sad too , i have a friend who had her second little one not long ago and she is FF, she bf longer than i did first time and didnt really have any problems either but her reasoning is that shes able to spread her time between her kids better without BF, which is rubbish caus i cope fine spending time with each of my boys equally even though i BF

 

[lynnikins]

oh and in case anyone was wondering my sore nipples are still there and i tested this morning and but no sign of AF and im never late so gonna test again at the weekend if AF still isnt here

 

[Dragonfly]

I got about 10 bfn before a positive and even my positive was a light one! so could be still bfp. My nipples are sensitive all the way through here. Very hard to breastfeed with it i just keep going as i only have a bit of time till next one comes and they calm down again. I hope anyway. I have William falling asleep here feeding at the mo while I am typing, well should be he has been up since5! I get no sleep now.

I have friends that say they dont want to do it the tin is better, they do not want to ruin social life they want to get langered on weekends and go with, they do not want to be attached to a child feeding, its not fair on dad dad dosnt get a bond apparently (bull), its not for them followed by YUK or EWWW. Then question me about how the hell I can do it and why I dont just use formula as its handier and how unfair I am not to let darren do any of the feeding. (last I checked mums fed babies) . And then how exhausting my life must be and how it revolves around my son which is not good as i need to get a life of my own and my body back. Its my body it will always be i am bringing up a baby I dont see it as some sort of horrible thing my son is feeding off me. Oh my son will be gay also and clingy! And I apparently must have a problem with formula since i dont use it and look down on people who do because I dont use it. Oh and wait apparently all their kids where fine so why I bother is beyond them. And its free on the dole so why not take it?
All that and I didnt even open my mouth to any of them.

 

[LoraLoo]

Hi all , would it be ok to join in here? Amy is 17 months old now and still breastfeeding, dont really have many friends with babies the same age, and the ones i do either never bf at all or stopped after a week or so....I quite often feel they look at me as though I am an alien. I keep getting asked if im still breastfeeding (i dont know why it interests them so much what my baby eats, i dont really care what they had for lunch!) and when i say yes, the next question is always 'when are you stopping?' it drives me mad! Amy's Godmother even told me, a couple of months ago, that she was 'too old'!!!!!

Have seen t-shirts saying 'Still Breastfeeding, Still none of your business' , I'm very tempted to get one

Lora xxxxx

 

[Dragonfly]

welcome! typing with one hand here as william asleep on me. I have no friends left i had some when preg then had less and less i must have disgusted them in to leaving, even fam dont come near me. had mant snide remarks from the all about how i feed even though i never asked them asked i dont care.

 

[lynnikins]

lol i am lucky that i have a few friends that are BF still ( outside the computer ) and one tandem ( toddler and 11month old ) feeding and shes only 21 :O honestly im too poor lol and could not be bothered with the faff of sterlising and making up bottles ive stopped expressing caus its too much bother lol

 

[Dragonfly]

OMG you know real live people that breastfeed! :O

I mean off the internet etc I know no one that ever did, i was alone doing it in the hospital . My OH wants me in a private room again in case theres a row as I was asked so much by other mums and looked down on and the midwife where snidy and he dosnt want that.

 

[Eve]

Loraloo!! Welcome!!

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way, it really was bothering me...

Dragonfly- I know what you mean, I surprisingly know a few, but not many and I'm not close to them.

Such a shame how it is where you live Here in the hospital I was praised for breastfeeding

 

[lynnikins]

lol i was in a postnatal ward with 2 first time mummys and one who had 7 children but obviously not cared for any of them as she couldnt change a nappy or feed her baby or even deal with it crying.. :O !! her OH traipsed in with all their kids and a NANNY for the baby! and had a big fight over the nanny being allowed to stay and care for the baby and the mw's put their feet down and told him where to go and that the mother had to take care of her child it was kinda entertaining to watch but i felt so sorry for her children caus they didnt appear to really know or care about their mum at all

 

[Dragonfly]

sounds like a horrible family to be in. I felt for mums who where ff in the mat ward when I was there, their babies where so sick from the formula, throwing it up all the time and screaming and the midwives where with them all the time. William couldnt get any sleep and never cried or threw up. We left for a private room for sleep them went home early due to insults from staff. I got sick of being questioned and not helped.

 

[lynnikins]

i was stuck caus i was ill and they wouldnt release me caus they were scared i would colapse on them. what annoyed me most was visiting hours every day the ward would be teaming with people we were told 4 visitors at a time max including our partners but the other women had way more than that often

 

[celine]

hey all, looks like im another bfing and pregnant one for the group

 

[Dragonfly]

hey all, looks like im another bfing and pregnant one for the group

hey congrats! welcome to having sore nipples again

 

[Shiv]

congratulations Celine - have a happy and healthy 9 months x

 

[florabean1981]

awww, HUGE congrats Celine; I hope it all goes really well for you

 

[florabean1981]

I know Anneka saw it, but did anyone else see 'Honey, i suckle the kids' on Living TV lastnight? It was about attatchment parenting, extended BFing & Communication Elimination (CE) way of raising kids. Unfortunately, they chose the women badly & showed the 3 methods as total extremes, weirdos, hippies & freaks....
When, o when will they choose some nice, normal, 20-something aged mums who are just going with the flow, relaxerd, laid back & doing the best for their kids the best way they know how????????????

 

[Dragonfly]

Because that would be boring, people want to slag others off and rant about how they shouldnt be doing this and that. Tv generalises so many poeple even teen mums have bad reps as they are only shown on tv to be wild and stupid where thats not the case. if your in the middle your dont get a speak at all. Even if you formula feed of bf your not extreme enough for tv. Now everyone will think we will bf our kids for 8 years or more and do other sorts of extreme thing.

 

[florabean1981]

Now everyone will think we will bf our kids for 8 years or more and do other sorts of extreme thing.

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dammit

 

[Eve]

Congratulations Celine!
Have a H&H 9 Months!




From what I have heard... terrible terrible terrible show!!

 

[spidey]

congrats celine!!