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Electric breast pump is evil!

Dragonfly

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My friend bought me an electric breast pump because everyone else seems to have a problem that I want to feed off the breast. My parents never shut up about getting a pump, I dont know why though its not like they come up and see William.

anyway sorry for ranting on....

Its painful! I tried it to see what it was like and it tried to rip my breast off and now its still burning and sore. It dosnt hurt when I feed of the breast why would I want to put myself through this torture! I only got a bit out and for all that pain!

does it hurt anyone else?

I am quite happy feeding off nipple , I dont go far anyway and it works for me.

My boob hurts :cry:
 
Is there a minimum/maximum setting? Maybe you have it up too high?

The other thing is, don't feel you need to express if you don't want to! They're your boobies and if you want to exclusively BF, then go fir it! They're the one's with the problem, let them deal with it!!:hug:
 
i thought this at first! until i realised i had it on the highest/maximum setting.

i'm not sure about other brands but if its an advent one you can set it to pump as slow/quick as you want, so it shouldn't hurt.

but if you want to exclusively feed off the breast then do it, your baby your boobs!
 
I never seem to please anyone to be honest. My other half says the same as you do.

but the way some go on I seem to belong to them and anything I do is critised . My mum wanted me to mix ith formula, but I dont want to. I thnk my milk is good enough!
 
Ignore them hun :hugs: your boobs,your baby, your decision.Dont let them make you doubt yourself.

I have never got on with pumps, i had a medela electric one which was supposed to be ace but i hated it, it hurt and it took me about an hour to get 2oz out.... i gave up and gave it to a friend on here in the end.

If you want to feed from the (.Y.) then you do it hun :)
 
Your milk is more than good enough - It's perfect! It's perfectly balanced for YOUR baby!!! It's not generic or off the peg - it's tailor made for him.

I think the reason you hate the pump is because it's not what you want. Tell them you dont need to use formula and you dont want to either. Did the people pushing you bottle feed their LOs? If they did you can reassure them that your choice to BF says nothing about theirs to FF - that's their choice this is yours and neither are wrong :D
 
Maybe someone can understand my mum and all the people that moan to me about the way I do things.
My mum breast feed for 4 weeks with my brother and gave up, didnt do it with me or my sister. Everyone else some tried and gave up really quick and others didnt bother but I still get thigs said like why do I bother, or I have done it long enough. I feel strongly that I want to continue breast feeding but the way around it with them was I get a breast pump, I dont want the pump, I see it as hassel. Its handier to just pop him on a boob and let him do the work. The pump did hurt me, it near had my boob sucked down it and I am not ready for putting up with that pain for a stupid amuont of milk! I know i would end up reverting back to nipple just for handiness.

alot are saying they have no life with breast feeding, yes its hard work but I dont mind it. I only go our to shops and I make sure he has a feed before I leave and his dad looks after him. He is fine, I am never far. I try and explain this and apparently filling bottles is what I need and freezing it. No one listens. I feel like I am doing wrong.

Really annoyed with my parents, they say to ask them if I need helplp. Everything seems to be a problem when I ask. Mum said I was to dependant on them when all I asked for was a bag of coal as we dont have a car and I cant get it to the house, even though she shouted at me for not asking them for lifts places?? confuses me this. They have never took william out! I thought they would. All I hear is about the christening which I cant be bothered with! mum will be embarrassed if I dont and Darren is on my side, the only person who dosnt tell me off or what I should and should not be doing.
If its not breast feeding its dogs then! every dam time I see my mum she says have you got rid of t hat dog yet! there is nothing wrong with my dogs !!! they are happy where they are! then when she put something down one day she implied in a cheeky way that y dog was going to savagely rip it to pieces, she thinks its a lion ffs!

does anyone else get constant aggravation off their families about everything they do or am I just lucky?! Darren is shocked at their lack of interest in William and his parents are here near every day! they always make an effort to come in even if there on a flying visit. My mum dosnt bother getting out of the car if my dad pops in for their post. :(

pissed off!
also tried to explain to my mum you dont get periods when breast feeding and of course I dont know what I am talking about and thats not true! even though I havnt had a period yet! #
all this from a women who ignored me growing up.
 
:hug:

They are being ridiculous. Dont let them push you around.
 
Stay strong hun and hopefully they will get bored with trying to run your life!! I also haven't had a period with breastfeeding yet (admittedly I'm on the mini-pill now, but don't tell them that!!)
I have expressed and to be honest, I barely use the milk I have stored. I thought I'd use it tonnes, so I culd go out and have a life. But I much prefer to stay in and feed my baby (or go out and feed my baby!!:happydance:).
I do hope they come round to your way of thinking babes - the last thing you need is stress from your family.:hug:
 
I know why are they causing me stress? I have enough! my housing benefit has been suspene for 3 months now and they have a back log an I am crapping it in case my landlord comes down and chucks me out! I have no idea how much to pay him, I know I am behind. And thats enough stress without my mum telling me she didnt do this and that and that everything I do is stupid just because she didnt do it! My aunt said the same things when I was saying to her about mum. My mum went on the same way to her. My mum is just right all the time and everyone is wrong!

ARRGHHH! I must be hormonal or something. I hate being made to feel stupid! the heath visitor says I am doing a fantastic job with William and he is good, healthy and the best baby she has seen!
 
ignore them! i fed Ewan for 9 months and never had a period, i always got so when are you going to given him a bottle, it would be easier. How? i just lift top up and 'plug them in!'
I am trying to get Robyn to take an occasional bottle but she won't take it, she did once but not since.

Why are they getting on to you about the Dog, you already rehomed one of them.
You are doing so well, i got a pump but i hardly get anything out with it and i am happier just feeding direct so i have sold it.

Good job you have your bike to relax on.. bet they have made comments about that too.
 
I never tried an elecrtic one but my manual didnt hurt me x
 
Think of a hoover on the end of your boob, and the hoover has a new bag in it. :(

got some crap about the christening again, mum seems to think I am waiting for this and that but in actual fact I am fed up telling her I think its all crap and I cant be arsed it seems to fall on deaf ears, instead she is trying to get e private christening as she thinks its the other people I dont want there.She is missing my point entirely.

I am depressed at this moment, I am fed up with everyone. I just want to be left alone with my baby to raise him the best I can. I have unpaid bills, unpaid rent, threats from tv licence, no money for oil and the house is cold and no hot water and my housing ben has still been suspended for 3 months and I am paranoid my landlord will chuck me out as I havnt paid either i dnt know who much to pay. Plus my other half is a dickhead! complains about stupid things because no one seems to be able to please him and nothing is good enough for him.

so I am well and truely fed up and want to crawl under a stone somewhere and not come out again.
 
Oh sweetie :hugs: You dont sound great at all. I think you need to tell them exactly what you have said - tell them in simple terms how you feel :)
 
I did it falls on deaf ears, no one really cares what I think and feel anyway. My mum just thinks I am full of crap and dosnt think I can speak or think for myself. It has to be done her way or no way. Disgrace the family and all. Well I am shocked any of them speak to me at all with her! I am not married, I have a child outside wedlock and I live with my boyfriend in sin so what the heck is the point on christening when I have done none of the rest! I am not religious and it has no place in my life. My mum just wants it save face as its traditional and she thinks she will look bad.
 
You always sound so down when you post hun. It worries me :(
 
I only moan over here on this site, I am usually always cheerful. I dont have a gloomy face all day just have to release it so I can continue on. Be worse if I kept it in it would be eating away at me all the time.

I even get shit off my mum about my hair colour, she has to argue with me what my nautral colour is and ist dark brown, she says its blonde?? anyone thats seen a pic of me can see I have dark hair ffs! then tells me to go back to my natural colour then wants it blonde again. She then insulted me when I commented on how nice my sisters outfit was and wanted a top the same but she said I didnt have the figure for it. It was a baggy top not some skin tight thing. All from a women who is 20 stone in weight.

She is very blunt and rude, she dosnt even say hello when she answers the phone to me just a fed up "yes Anneka" or "what is it" treats me like I am a burden! never comes to see William or gets him anything. Darren and his relatives have noticed this as they are always here! he seens Darrens mum near every day so he will know that as Granny more than anything. My dad does come up but has no time with my mum and work.
 
I'm glad you've got here to get it off your chest then hun :D
 
things not any better. Today the milk man didnt bother to leave me milk which I had given him tokens in advance for, he has two more weeks worth! before he claimed I never gave him tokens and wasnt here when I was speaking to him! so i gave him another chance and he does this. I bet he tries to say I didnt give him enough when he has two more there. I only get milk once a week and he does me out of the money they are worth and gives me less.
I cant have any cereal now :( and no one around here apart from the chemist takes them vouchers and I dont need forumula milk so he is my only option. Ridiculous isnt it! I am going to devore him! I have had enough crap.

At this rate with homelife being crap I will probably not be able to get any milk out with stress. Thinking of even looking for a new house as I probably wont have the one I am in for to much longer that the rent hasnt been paid for me or the dhss in months. Or bills for that matter as my other half is a waste of space!
 
My friend bought me an electric breast pump because everyone else seems to have a problem that I want to feed off the breast. My parents never shut up about getting a pump, I dont know why though its not like they come up and see William.

anyway sorry for ranting on....

Its painful! I tried it to see what it was like and it tried to rip my breast off and now its still burning and sore. It dosnt hurt when I feed of the breast why would I want to put myself through this torture! I only got a bit out and for all that pain!

does it hurt anyone else?

I am quite happy feeding off nipple , I dont go far anyway and it works for me.

My boob hurts :cry:

as I look at the box ...ekkkk!!!! hope mine does not rip off my nipples! I also hope I use it, not cheap!

GL

p.s. have not seen you around since my "ghost photos"... which I did get a reply lol tell you about it later ;)
 

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