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Since I've never had a baby sleep through the night I had wondered how the
milk supply worked out with a baby who did. Does the baby just nurse more during the day? Or maybe it just eats more milk at a feeding. Marie Karen wrote in message ... DD has been sleeping thru the night for weeks and my supply is just fine. My SIL claimed that her breast milk was the consistency of cottage cheese and that her Dr told her that it could be curdled, LOL. I guess she felt the need to make excuses................ Karen Ann Mommy to: Ashley 11-13-90 Meghan 3-10-97 Hayley "Chunky Monkey" 3-27-03 |
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Yep - that's what I always say..."it's not too late..."
"ted" wrote in message om... I had lot of problems initially with DD's nipple confusion etc.. So I couldn't bf her the first 10 days of her birth. I pumped for couple of days initially and then gave up because of frustration/exhaustion due to delivery etc. etc. I thought that was it for me. Then I went to the ped for a visit and he told me to nurse her and said it's not too late. Ofcourse this group is the real reason why I even wanted to bf. Now we're nursing/pumping ever since (4 months). My point is nothing bad happened even though I didn't either nurse or pump for so long. So may be next time you can tell her that she still has time. |
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Dawn wrote:
People will use any excuse to stop doing something they didn't want to do anyways, it seems. How right you are, I would have respected her more for admitting that she was having a difficult time or that bfing was not for her. Than for her using some ludicrous excuse. She keeps pushing me to give DD cereal and supplement with formula for my "convenience". My response is that she is not ready for cereal, has been sleeping thru the night for weeks and that I would actually find formula feeding inconvenient. Karen Ann Mommy to: Ashley 11-13-90 Meghan 3-10-97 Hayley "Chunky Monkey" 3-27-03 |
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Karen wrote: Dawn wrote: People will use any excuse to stop doing something they didn't want to do anyways, it seems. How right you are, I would have respected her more for admitting that she was having a difficult time or that bfing was not for her. Than for her using some ludicrous excuse. She keeps pushing me to give DD cereal and supplement with formula for my "convenience". My response is that she is not ready for cereal, has been sleeping thru the night for weeks and that I would actually find formula feeding inconvenient. MOST annoying. My cousin was big on this whole idea that bfding is inconvenient and what's best for the kid be damned. Guess it depends how p.o'd you are at her..... ;-) but maybe a comment like "well, there's rarely a time when I begrudge my DD an hour of my time, especially when I am sparing us both the far worse than inconvenient problems that early solids and formula can cause." I've flat out said to people, "you know, if you don't want to nurse, or don't have that level of committment, then don't, but please don't try to tell me you *can't* because there are very few highly predictable reasons why most women stop nursing, and the rest doesn't wash with me." I must be a lactavist in the making because I sometimes think that for at least the first 6 weeks, ffding shouldn't even be an OPTION. Dawn |
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Dawn Lawson wrote:
I must be a lactavist in the making because I sometimes think that for at least the first 6 weeks, ffding shouldn't even be an OPTION. You SUPER-LACTATOR, you!!!!!!!!! ;-) -- Brigitte aa #2145 edd #3 February 15, 2004 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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SNIPPED
"you know, if you don't want to nurse, or don't have that level of committment, then don't, but please don't try to tell me you *can't* because there are very few highly predictable reasons why most women stop nursing, and the rest doesn't wash with me." I LOVE this :-) Shannon |
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Truffles wrote: Dawn Lawson wrote: I must be a lactavist in the making because I sometimes think that for at least the first 6 weeks, ffding shouldn't even be an OPTION. You SUPER-LACTATOR, you!!!!!!!!! ;-) *sometimes*, Brigitte, I said *sometimes* I feel that way. ;-) Usually I just feel crushing scorn for someone who sometimes even before they get pregnant has decided that bfding is too much bother and/or not worth it. I just don't _get_ *planning* to ff. I'm only barely ok with the idea that some babies need supplementing, cuz I think a lot of people start that when the "normal" frets about supply start, when good advice might reassure them. The trouble is that it seems quite frequently those people then a) unlactate themselves, or b) carry on, with supplementing, and decide that what they did is the only way, and recommend supplementation at the merest hint of supply concerns, instead of offering good bfding advice first and foremost. I honestly didn't expect to end up this way ;-) Dawn (And bless my DS for refusing a bottle utterly, since everyone and their cat was suggesting I should give him a bottle at 2 or 3 days old and (of course) seemed hungry because he was nursing a lot, because as my midwife said "once they have latched, you can't get nipple confusion" - nevermind that I have inverted nipples and he *wasn't* really latching very well. I made very few very half hearted attempts to get him to take EBM from a bottle, since, thank goodness, I had a feeling it was lousy advice.) D. |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 20:00:23 -0400, "Marie"
wrote: Since I've never had a baby sleep through the night I had wondered how the milk supply worked out with a baby who did. Does the baby just nurse more during the day? Or maybe it just eats more milk at a feeding. Of the 3 of mine, the only one that slept a long stretch at night by 3 months was also the one that snack nursed a lot through the day. I'm not sure which is the cart and which is the donkey but I am certainly not going to complain. It was never inconvenient for me to have her latch on every hour or so while she was awake since I was getting more sleep at night. Well, I would have if the terror not-twins would sleep at night..... -- Cheryl DS#1 (Mar 99), DS#2 (Oct 00) DD born 30 Jul 02 |
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"Marie" wrote in message ... Since I've never had a baby sleep through the night I had wondered how the milk supply worked out with a baby who did. Does the baby just nurse more during the day? Or maybe it just eats more milk at a feeding. Marie my dd is 7 weeks old (nak). for the past 5 nights she has slept for at least 7 hours (8 the last 2 nights). I wake up SOAKING wet! and engorged. (looking forward to that ending, sometime soon?). all along, it has seemed that she eats constantly, so I haven't really noticed a change there. when she does wake up, she nurses hard and strong for ~10-15 minutes each side and then sleeps for another 2 hours. after that, it seems like lots of meals/snacks and naps for the rest of the day. A good long power nurse from 7-9 pm, then she sleeps through the night. amazingly, most of the time when she wakes up. her diaper is dry Edith |
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