10 Myths of Breastfeeding.
Disclaimer: Do not read this is you love breastfeeding! Some of us have no fond memories of it so don't say I didn't warn you!
I had Michelle from on-the-edge-mom.com email me the other day. After checking out her blog I found this most hilarious story on the 10 Myths of Breastfeeding.
I have to say I laughed my head off! I LOVED IT. After breast-feeding or attempting to breastfeed 3 kids I have yet to see the wonderful bliss some women have doing this.
Baby #1- Never stopped eating and I was always squirting milk everywhere! It got to the point where I had to wear diapers in my bra to keep the milk under control.
Baby #2- Wouldn't stop eating either but she proceeded to add hurling up her food and barfing EVERY TIME she ate. She had pyloric stenosis so she was literally starving because her stomach wouldn't let the food through and then she would throw it up, some times across the room! When I called the doc for the 5th time in 3 days and the nurse said "well, some times babies spit up but first time moms always think it worse than it is" I wanted to go down and choke the daylights out of her! (the nurse not the baby)
Baby #3- never stopped eating either but then decided to continually cry 24/7. Found out he was allergic to milk and eggs later but by that point I just wanted to die from the exhaustion of moving, 3 kids 5 and under, hubby's job problems and a chronic illnesses.
If we have any more kids I will give another shot, but so far the experience has been anything but pleasant for me. You can tell it must have traumatized me if 4 years later I'm still having flashbacks! LOL
anyway, if your like me and breastfeeding was anything but fun you will get a good laugh out of it.
Tawra
P.S. Please do not email me about the vitures of breast-feeding, I already know them all and all the help you can get from LLL and all that good stuff. I am NOT saying breastfeeding is bad. So don't email me about that either!
This is just meant to give some women a good laugh and not feel guilty that it's not for everyone.
I had Michelle from on-the-edge-mom.com email me the other day. After checking out her blog I found this most hilarious story on the 10 Myths of Breastfeeding.
I have to say I laughed my head off! I LOVED IT. After breast-feeding or attempting to breastfeed 3 kids I have yet to see the wonderful bliss some women have doing this.
Baby #1- Never stopped eating and I was always squirting milk everywhere! It got to the point where I had to wear diapers in my bra to keep the milk under control.
Baby #2- Wouldn't stop eating either but she proceeded to add hurling up her food and barfing EVERY TIME she ate. She had pyloric stenosis so she was literally starving because her stomach wouldn't let the food through and then she would throw it up, some times across the room! When I called the doc for the 5th time in 3 days and the nurse said "well, some times babies spit up but first time moms always think it worse than it is" I wanted to go down and choke the daylights out of her! (the nurse not the baby)
Baby #3- never stopped eating either but then decided to continually cry 24/7. Found out he was allergic to milk and eggs later but by that point I just wanted to die from the exhaustion of moving, 3 kids 5 and under, hubby's job problems and a chronic illnesses.
If we have any more kids I will give another shot, but so far the experience has been anything but pleasant for me. You can tell it must have traumatized me if 4 years later I'm still having flashbacks! LOL
anyway, if your like me and breastfeeding was anything but fun you will get a good laugh out of it.
Tawra
P.S. Please do not email me about the vitures of breast-feeding, I already know them all and all the help you can get from LLL and all that good stuff. I am NOT saying breastfeeding is bad. So don't email me about that either!
This is just meant to give some women a good laugh and not feel guilty that it's not for everyone.
posted by Tawra Jean at 1:26 PM
11 Comments:
One more thing you get from breast fed babies are diapers from HE**.
I did not get to breast feed my oldest son. He was a difficult birth and when I woke up after having him (2 days later, not kidding) I had no milk...I did try to feed him, but it just was not there. I was so sick I did not care to push the issue..he got a bottle and thrived. Today he is 35, 6ft 2in tall and weighs 230 pounds. So it did not hurt him at all...
My baby, now 30, I did get to breast feed for about 6 weeks. Miserable. Miserable. I thought my titty was going to detatch itself from my body and run away. When my son was just a couple of weeks old we decided to take him 'home' to see his grandparents..a trip from Pensacola Fl. to Pflugerville Tx. That child nursed on me the whole trip. He had never been in on a car trip before. There was something about being in the moving that car that made him want to nurse. If I stopped he cried. No, really he screamed. The scream you scream when your mad at the world..my poor husband begged me to 'put something in his mouth' and the only thing that child wanted was my breast. By the time we got to Pflugerville I thought my breast were dead. I was just getting used to things, making progress with my son to take a bottle from his father now and again when I had to have emergency surgery...so that was the end of my breast feeding. I could not have any more children. Even if I could have had a dozen more children I do not think I would have breast fed them. No, not me. Not ever again. Roxie
The whole breastfeeding issue took me through 2 kids that flourished with the idea and 2 kids that almost tour me apart with the practice. The rule of thumb in my personal opinion is that it has to be a complimentary partnership with mommy and baby. It either 'clicks' or it doesn't. Thankfully, our children today are blessed with medical advances that provide alternatives to what might not have been available for other babies in the earlier stages of human development. Instead of seeing breastfeeding as the 'be all end all' of the world for babies, I prefer to thank God for providing a new alternative in nourishment for babies that would otherwise struggle with the lack of ability to work it out naturally with mommy. The alternatives we have available today for our babies is not a failure at all, but a CELEBRATION of blessing! Robin in CA
I am so sorry you both had such bad experiences! You should do what is best for your particular situation...there is enough guilt about good parenting. But with that said first, I breastfed four children a total of 10 years and loved it. Besides being very close to all four (now three grown and one teen) my doctor says because of this my risk of breast cancer is much reduced and my skin looks much younger than it is. I just hope someone doesn't read the horror stories here and be scared off. It does work for many of us. But is certainly not the only way to go.
LOL! Thanks for posting! I was always made to feel guilty because I didn't continue breastfeeding my first 2 children. I REALLY tried, but it was a horrible experience and it made me a nervous wreck!
I am happy to say though, I FORCED myself to continue breastfeeding my third child and after a couple weeks it finally "clicked".
Having been a mother of both breastfeed and bottlefeed babies, I can tell you that the bottle feed children are no more or less bright, healthy, happy or onery than the breastfeed baby:)
I breast fed both my girls with no problems what so ever. My only problem was when I went shopping and another baby would start crying. Well, you hear a couple of little cries going and next thing you know my breast milk would release. Ugh! I would pull my arms tightly around breast to stop the flow so my own babies wouldn't have to starve!
When our first born was approx. 6 weeks old my husband picked her up while he wasn't wearing a shirt. She immediatley found her "target" latched and tried to get a meal from dad! LOL!!!! There's my husband screaming trying to detach our daughter who had his breast/nipple stretched a mile. I was laughing sooo hard. One thought he was dying, the other thought she was starving! I had simply walked over to them, placed my pinky in her mouth to release the suction and all was well. Needless to say my husband always made sure he had a shirt on after that. We still have a good giggle over that episode!
That is SOOOOO funny!
I was just thinking yesterday after I posted it that if they want to get the terrorists to talk then they should make them breastfeed! LOL
They would talk in less than 2 minutes! :-)
Tawra
I thought this was funny and didn't take offense even though I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding. I breastfed my first daughter for a year and I'm almost to a year with my second and will likely go past that.
I think the first 6-8 weeks is the hardest - it gets MUCH easier after that. I don't know many that stick it out that long, but if you can I personally have found it worth it.
My children are the absolute opposite of what they tell you about breastfeeding. My oldest son was breast fed. He contracted meningitis when he was 7 months old, has allergies and is definitely my "sick kid". I generally say that if there is a disease within 5 miles of that boy--he will get it. Take it to the bank.
The younger two--I breastfed the middle child for about 3 days and the youngest never. They are two of the healthiest kids you could hope for. They haven't got allergies, the virtual picture of health. Check-ups are about the only time we take them to the doctor.
Thank God, the oldest has outgrown most problems--but he still takes daily allergy meds.
Take care all!
Husker Kim
I think that my failed attempts at breast-feeding are what contributed to my post-partum depression with my first child. But I thought I just HAD to breastfeed or my child would die of malnutrition or some mystery illness that only formula-fed babies get. (Or at least that's what the breastfeeding literature seems to claim.) I finally resorted to a pump, and supplemented with formula for three months (while working full-time) and then just gave up and went with only formula. For my second, it was formula from the beginning. If we have another, I too would consider trying again, I guess because maybe I like a little self-torture. I truly do not know how the human race has survived for thousands of years before the invention of formula. Thank goodness there are some moms who breastfeed without difficulty, but I'm not one of them!
When I found out I was pregnant I determined at that moment that I was going to do everything "right." To me it was going to be like everything else in life -- if you put your mind to it, you can pull it off. This philosophy had not failed me yet. Unfortunately, being a Mommy is just not that easy. I developed preeclampsia at the end of my second trimester and was hospitalized three months before my due date. We live in a rural area where the hospital is not equipped with an NICU therefore I was flown to a hospital over an hour away from my OB, my home and my husband. The next weeks were spent praying that my blood pressure would stabilize so that this baby would be healthy while I lay alone in a hospital bed. A whole team of unfamiliar, but very competent, doctors took care of me and my baby. My husband was able to visit me on the weekends, but we could not afford for him to take time off to stay with me. When my blood pressure got to a point where it was no longer controllable, the doctors tried to induce labor, but to no avail. I had to deliver c-section and my daughter was 7 and a half weeks early. She was 3 pounds, 8 ounces and 16 and 1/4 inches long. I understand that this is quite a bit of background to get to the breastfeeding part, but I think it is necessary because there are individuals out there who do not understand some of the reasons that moms are either unable to breastfeed or choose not to. My daughter was in the NICU in an isolette for 3 weeks. I was not even able to hold her for the first week. From the moment I was taken from the recovery room to the "moms and babies" ward in the hospital, I began pumping every 2 hours, even through the night. The first three days I did not even get one drop of milk. I continued to pump and eventually was able to supply some of her milk that she was given through an ng-tube. I met with lactation specialists and nurses several times each day and as I look back, I was spending more time with them than I was with my baby. I did everything within reason to try to encourage my milk to come in. It never really happened. She was transferred to our home hospital after 3 weeks in the NICU and the nurses there finally told me I could try breast feeding. I spent one day in the hospital "learning" how to breast feed with some help from the nurses. My little girl was too small to latch properly and I had to use a breast shield. Each feeding took at least an hour and she still wasn't getting enough so I had to supplement with a bottle of pumped breast milk or formula afterwards. She had so little energy left after the breast feeding that she could barely suck on the bottle. I then had to pump for 10-15 minutes after she had eaten to try and encourage my milk production. By the time all of that was finished, I had about enough time to use the bathroom before the routine begun again. This went on for 3 weeks after she left the hospital before my doctor and my pediatrician both told me that it was of more benefit to my baby for her to have a healthy mother than to maintain this regimen in order to supply her with breast milk. What a relief it was to hear that. I still feel guilty when people ask if I am breastfeeding (and they do ask, so inappropriate ...) It is so important for us to refrain from judging someone else. Breastfeeding is such a personal issue and there are those out there who have made it a public issue. I appreciate the alternative perspective and I don’t believe there is any danger in being brutally honest about our experiences so that women can make an informed decision for themselves.
I really liked the one where the dad had to breastfeed. I almost peed myself laughing! LOL
I too breastfed my babies but only 2 of the 3 The first was 2 months premature and I was 21 (and the thought of that was like so gross! Ewwwe)(So I thought then anyway) and the second I only did for about 6 weeks, I couldn't take it anymore. He was obsessed with it. I mean seriously he was obsessed! Anyhoo the third one went beautifully and she was breastfed till she was 10 months old. It was difficult at times, especially being in public sometimes, but we managed. I totally agree with the one lady, it justs has to click with mommy and baby. Good luck to all. Love your babies and keep them healthy the best way you can wheither it is bottle or breast, doesn't matter as long as it is done with love!
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