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agree but i wish it was only 3kg i had left lol
also all the midwifes in hospital making me feel abnormal that my milk didnt come in, in like a day or two ( i dont even know when it came in i ended up taking medication and never had the whole engorgement thing)
I found out later its normal to that it can take longer, annoying midwifes
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Excellent thread thank you! I was told when I had DS at 34+4 via c/s that he would not be able to BF and would have to be tube fed. The midwife that bought him into my room 12 hrs after birth (from SCN) placed him onto my chest and quite bluntly said it was just skin on skin time...... Then her jaw dropped when DS started nuzzling towards my breast and had his first feed of colostrum.
Now that we have stopped I don't think they are smaller or shrivelled as people say, they look and feel just the same to me, in fact they fill my bras even better than before
One other thing....... When I was pg my Mum swore black and blue that if I didn't rub vaseline into my nipples that they would get cracked when bub arrived and I started feeding. Another busted myth.... i trusted my own instinct and did nothing pre-bub and just bathed them in BM and let them air dry after feeding in the early days. I never once had cracked nipples.
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Oh and another
- Being vegetarian will affect your milk, well I managed to grow 2 healthy babies without meat so why should making milk be any different?
That's crazy! My mother was told in 1979 that she was starving her baby because she was vegetarian! I thought that was just some crazy 1970's hogwash - but some people still think that obviously! Bah!
I haven't quite had the opportunity to dispel any myths yet, but I'm looking forward to the one my FIL believes in - that my milk will be "bad" after 6 months so I won't need to BF beyond then.
Oh, and some of my MG have started FF their bubs in the hope of getting them to sleep through the night. Seemingly now their babies are FF and still don't sleep throughI can't quite dispel that myth though cause my DS also doesn't sleep through, but I think their own experiences speak for themselves.
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I thought of one more - Can't breastfeed and do IVF.
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oh and you can't take AD's when BF - happy mum = happy baby
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That the size of your breasts determines if you can produce enough milk...you know small breasts no milk, big whoppers, an oversupply. So not true. Looked after mum's who have next to no breasts so think they wont be able to produce enough produce heaps, and mum's who have an abundance of breast tissue produce next to none.
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You can't breastfeed without showing your boobs.
I am a more private person and have so far been able to breastfeed in many situations and locations without exposing much skin (and without wearing a poncho!). Breastfeeding tops and a so far co-operative child have made this a lot easier.
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LOL yeah Loula, I bled heavy for 4 weeks, spotted for two, had a two week break, and then got my cycle back regular as ever. Even moreso, in fact! I was so annoyed, since I had heard the myth that it'd keep my menstrual cycle away for at least months if I kept breastfeeding!
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I debunked several here too...
AF won't return whilst bfing
Can't fall pg whilst bfing
You lose weight from bfing (I'm bigger than ever and only stopped bfing DS about 3months ago, so fed him for almost 2yrs without dropping a kg! In fact I gain a fair bit and found it so difficult to lose)
Can't bf whilst pg (I fell pg when DS was 19mths old and he self weaned at just under 23mths)
BM alone isn't enough for big babies (DS was 4.2kg's when born and was exclusively bf until he was 6 1/2mths old. By that time he was about 8kg!!)
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Myths i debunked whilst bf-ing (about bf-ing)
- i managed to breastfeed in public discreetly (thanks to bfing clothing, where access is from below, and the front of the tops are double layer).
- i bf standing up when necessary (like in supermarket queue)
- who knew that a breastfeed could trump a dose of Panadol for a crying toddler (fallen over etc)
- breastfeeding to sleep, did not damage my child
- GP's and hospital medical people knew very little about BF-ing, lactation consultants, aba people that's who were the most helpful to me.
- a baby getting teeth is not total reason to wean. it was a reason for me to get advice on positioning. we had a problem, we solved it with education for me. problem went away.
- the paed dietician who told me there was NOTHING beneficial in my breastmilk for bilby (when she was 19 months old) - was SO wrong, her immune system has been very very strong against all kind of common kid ailments
- i kept bf-ing bilbs when i had bad gastro (lose 3kg in one night, hard to stand up type gastro) AND SHE DIDN"T GET GASTRO
- we're down to one feed a day, most days (she's nearly four) and the milk is still there (to my amazement)
- and the major one - she only started talking at three - but i never felt anything but happy and content at hearing my child ask for her "mummy booby". and telling me "i uv mummy booby". (her words for breastmilk). I was told it would be repulsive, to hear her ask for breastmilk. Nothing could be further from our reality.
- and on the weight thang, my baby weight came off by 8 months post birth. Breasts stopped leaking milk then too.
- and the one about "feeding on demand will make your child too dependant on you" - hmmm, that one sure got disproved. Bilby is socially confident, she will "read" a story book to a group of ten kids! "now, is everyone listening?" LOL.
- her teeth are excellent, so breastfeeding in bed did not give her cavities (we visit dentist six monthly).
- that i COULD breastfeed after 29 hours of waterbirth labour, 7 hours of medical intervention, two epidurals and sundry other drugs and a 2.5 hour gap between her traumatic non breathing arrival and her first breastfeed (with her father standing guard in ICU nursery to make sure no medical staff gave her formula against my wishes). I was convinced (by believers of the myths) that i would not be able to feed her, after a birth involved drugs.
will stop now, i'm sure that's enough to send you all to sleep
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Well I've debunked something a MCHN told me when DS was 2 months old. I was using nipple shields to breastfeed, and she told me outright that my milk would dry up if I kept using them... now here we are, DS is now 20 months and we are still breastfeeding using nipple shields! I don't even think anything of it now, I'm so used to them that I forget it's not 'normal' most of the time!
More recently, I think the main b/f myths I've debunked have been related to breastfeeding while pregnant. I've shocked a few people telling them I was still breastfeeding (and breastfeeding quite a lot) when I fell pregnant. A lot of people assume you have to wean in order to fall pregnant - I know some women do, but not everyone
Also, I've come across who thought you couldn't breastfeed while pregnant - I think they thought it was either bad for the developing baby, or that your milk dries up. So far so good here though!
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Sterla, my mum told me that I had to wean whne I fell pg with #3 too. She said it would deprive the growing baby of nutrients she really thought it was true...I said that I knew I wouldn't and she told me I had to go to the doctor....mind you my gp also told me that my milk had no nutritional value to it for DS when he turned 12mths old and I should just stop! When I told him half the world bf past 12mths and into toddlerhood and beyond he dismissed it as being for the 3rd world where they have nothing better to give babies and toddlers....it's so sad that even gp's are so ill informed.
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Great thread topic Jennifer13!
* I exclusively bf all my children for the first 9-10 months of their lives (ie. no solids), proving that BM can sustain babies perfectly well for almost the first year of their lives. With my first child the IL's were constantly asking when I was going to give her 'real food'. They didn't bother asking with the next two!
* I bf while pregnant (twice).
* I bf DD and Ds1 until well after their 2nd birthdays. DD was still occasionally feeding after her third birthday, and I was still feeding DS1. No DD did not need to be fed at the school gate when she started school this year! I heard this comment constantly when people realised that I was feeding an older child. (And anyway, I wouldn't have minded if she did!).
* I demand bf and co-slept with all of them (currently with DS2), and no, they never had trouble transitioning to their own beds and bedrooms.
* You can think you are a bf expert, and then get mastitis for the first time with your third child! Conversely, you can overcome mastitis.
* I returned to work when DD was 13 months old and our bf relationship continued beautifully (and I didn't express once).
* I have been lactating for over 6 years!
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