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Main Page Site Index Getting Pregnant Pregnancy Parenting Pregnancy and Parenting Journals Fertility Nutrition Pregnant Moms Morning Sickness Women's Health Child Health	Main Page - Breastfeeding Survival Guide - TLOL Mom's Share Their Breastfeeding Advice Mom's Share Their Breastfeeding Advice Kenyatta: I used to wish people would have told me...BEFORE I went through certain things. *Bring Baby to the Breast* - I had some awful back pain that first week home from the hospital, because I was leaning in towards Christian, and not bringing him to my breast to nurse. *Teething* - When Christian reached the 3.5 month mark, he started teething. I wished someone would have told me that infants could start teething so young! What a surprise for me to see my little four month old with two bottom teeth! I also wish not so much that someone would have told me ... but that I SHOULD have kept in mind, that ALL of our experiences are different. What worked for one Mom, may not work for me. What DIDN'T work for another Mom, may very well work FOR me. That I have the right to challenge my doctor, AND Christians...especially when it comes to decisions about my breastfeeding. That while every woman's decision to breastfeed, or try again to breastfeed may be similar - that their reasons for NOT breastfeeding are VERY different. Lorna: that supplementing with ANY amount of formula in the first weeks can destroy your efforts to establish a milk supply. that sore and/or bleeding nipples is NOT NORMAL AT ALL. Nipples do not need to be toughened if the baby is latched on correctly. that co-sleeping is the most wonderful thing in the world if you are nursing. that BF babies can actually poop once every eleven days and it is still normal. that pumping isn't easy. that women who have never nursed should be ignored because they have tons of advice and don't know what they are talking about. This especially applies to MILS and their mothers. that nursing throws your body into a temporary state of osteoporosis so you have to take calcium with magnesium and increase dairy and green leafy vegs in your diet. Ann Marie: I wish I knew that supplementing at all could destroy nursing. I wish that I knew that babies might want to nurse very frequently. I wish I didn't listen to my mother who told me I was starving my daughter because she wanted to nurse so often. I wish that I knew that I could relactate after not being with my first daughter for a whole week after she was born. I tried to nurse her but I was so sick and I couldn't even take care of her so she had to spend some time with her grandmother. If I knew then all I know now about nursing, and I knew I could relactate I would have done it in a heartbeat. I also wish I knew that stress could effect your milk production. There is a chance that with my second she really wasn't getting enough milk, and if I knew then how to get my supply up, and how to deal with the stress I am sure things would have been much different. Jayne: I wish I knew how much my breasts would leak right through my clothing even though I was wearing breast pads!! I wish I knew I would need to sleep with a big bath towel under me so I wouldn't leak all over the sheets!! I wish I knew that finding BF clothes was harder than finding maternity clothes...I mostly wore loose shirts & hiked them up, but I had to make sure that when they got wet it would barely show through!! I wish I knew they were going to give Sofia formula in the hospital, luckily it didn't affect our nursing progression at all!! I wish I knew how easy BF was going to be after a few weeks. Yvonne: I wish I had known that frequent nursing helps with engorgement I wish I had known about Lansinoh with my first. I wish I had known that nursing through a pregnancy is ok (unless you have a history of preterm labor) Amanda: I wish I had known- about La Leche League before Stenson turned 15 months. I wouldn't have weaned him. Luckily he's nursing again and I have the support of my LLL group. that pacifiers could interfere w/ the bf-ing relationship w/ my first. to finish the first breast first so they'll get the hind milk. about nursing clothes. I hated covering up so others wouldn't "have to look at that". that breastmilk is good for the baby/child as long as they are nursed. about baby slings. They are God sent! that other women nursed past a year. I'm NOT a freak!   ~ Nursing Nook Contents ~ - Breastfeeding Survial Guide - Breastfeeding Articles - The Boy and His Boob Column - Breastfeeding Bookstore - Full Index of Breastfeeding Articles