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Clisby Williams wrote:

Banty wrote:

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For me ff was simpler because bf was:
1) Sit down
2) Plop out breast(s)?
3) switch breast
4) switch breast
5) switch breast
etc. alot for hours on end. Both my babies wanted to constantly for
hours on end be on the nipple because of supply issues. I gave up on
bf with my first and persevered with the help of domperidone with my
second.

while ff was:

1) pour water in bottle
2) put formula in bottle
3) shake
4) feed baby for max 15 min

Which required no refrigeration, microwave, pitcher, or measuring
cups. It did require a store :-)



Yep.

I did both, and I think the perception varies on what the mother does and
considers relaxing. Also the milk supply and let down.

If it's feet up watching TV or sitting outside taking in the air and scenery
and
yammering on the phone to friends that mom loves, sitting and switching
breasts
is just the ticket.

If more active pursuits are what's satisfying and relaxing to mom, sitting
and
switching breasts for 1/2 hour or so can be really reaaally sloooooow. And
what's hard is what *else* has to be done with the time left over after
siiiiittting and leetting dooown and relllaaaaxxxing for a loooooong time.
(And
no - don't say "oh -doncha know you can let the housework go" - I got REAL
TIRED
OF the clutter and feeling allergic to boot in a dirty, cat-hair filled
house.)

I did nurse, but my experience of it was more like that latter. My
temprament
isn't one to sit day in day out and look at baby and TV and trees and grass
hours and yammer with whoever's hanging out hours in hours out day in day
out.
And I'm too heavy breasted to set up, hold baby in one arm, hold a paperback
in
the other.

Banty




Yep. And some of us don't get the side benefit of that supposed flow of
relaxing hormones during
nursing. I've nursed my son for 17 months, and the only hormonal side
effects I've felt have
been unpleasant (uterine contractions, and letdown.) Even once the
bad part was past, I've
seldom nursed him without thinking, "OK, honey, aren't you about through
now?"

Clisby


OK -- this makes sense. I'm the sort who'd rather sit in a corner
somewhere -- and managed to learn to nurse the twins while reading the
newspaper. Personally, I *liked* the feeling of letting down -- though
i could have passed on the uterine contractions!

I've always understood that for some people, nursing is a PIA: they may
have lactation problems, or a baby with a severe cleft pallatte or other
medical issues, or a baby who just can't seem to latch on, or baby with
neo-natal problems that meant they couldn't nurse for the first few
weeks or months, or they adopted, or they had to return to work, or for
some reason it made sense for someone else to be feeding the baby, or .
.. .

However, I guess I didn't understand that, for some people the sitting
down to nurse -- the time just sitting -- felt more like a chore, or at
least not pleasurable; since I'll use damned near ANY excuse to sit for
a while -- nursing (almost) never felt like a chore. (And I did enjoy
being able to tell other people, "Can you do the dishes? -- I have to
nurse the babies.")

Thanks for taking the time to put into words something I didn't really
"get" before.

meh
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care