By Tassia O'Callaghan
Mar 17, 2023
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By Keshia Sophia Roelofs
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I am wondering if anyone else is feeling the same way?! My baby is almost 2 weeks old and I am exclusively breastfeeding. I am wanting to cuddle him so much but every time I hold him he starts his breast feeding cues. I’m starting to feel like a milk dispenser 😂😭
When are you planning to start Colostrum collecting (if you even are)? I know some women's doesn't come in until 37+ weeks, and some don't get any before breastfeeding. However, mine came in at 20 weeks and I just feel like I've wasted 10 weeks of colostrum by not collecting it 😅 Edit: mine has literally been leaking out for 10 weeks - which is why I felt like I was wasting it 🤦🏻♀️
My 2 year old still drinks her bedtime milk from a fast-flow teat and I’ve only just researched about what type of bottle she should be using, and finding out that she really should not be drinking from a teat anymore and should be on a sippy cup. I feel awful, she has a lisp and one of her teeth sits a little further back from the rest and not that I think either are bad or worrying things, I blame myself for not weaning her onto a sippy cup at bedtime. She drinks water from a sippy cup during the day, and is excellent at drinking from a cup like you & I do, but at bedtime it’s still the baby bottle and now I feel awful 🫠
Anyone else feel like hv is there just to make you feel shit! Had 10m review today and got moaned at because she has cows milk and formula mixed as she wasn't drinking bottles anymore, got moaned at that she has 500ml not 400ml a day, got moaned at that she uses a straw cup not a 360 style, got moaned at for giving her a bottle on the rare occasion she wakes in the night because "she doesn't need it, just leave her", got moaned at because she has her milk in a bottle not a cup, then because she isn't put down fully awake and left,,, I feel like the list goes on! But I'm sorry she's my child and she's still a baby, if she wants milk from a bloody bottle to comfort her to sleep she will bloody well have it! And when asked if she has a dummy to which I replied no I got "well at least that's something!"
I've been avoiding giving a dummy this early.(2 weeks old) as I'm breastfeeding and know it can lead to nipple confusion, however it's the only way we can get any sleep! Any advice or tips for how and when to use a dummy and avoid it interacting with breastfeeding xxx
Has anyone else not been able to get a single drop of colostrum :( I’ve tried every method possible and I’m just not producing. Currently 37+3. Obviously I will keep trying because I know it can come in at any point but have any of you ladies had positive breastfeeding experiences after not being able to harvest colostrum during pregnancy? I’m really hoping I will be able to BF