I
had my baby at 38 weeks. I was expecting to go to the full 40 weeks and
then some as everyone told me that my first child would be at least two
weeks late. I had been planning on the next two weeks to get shopping
and cleaning done before the baby arrived. Uh-oh!
Thank goodness the hospital provided clothes and a car seat and little
nail clippers and alcohol wipes and oh, just everything I needed so
that I wouldn't have to go out and get those things once I got home.
Oh wait. They didn't do that.
Nevermind.
BTW, my last child was c-section, milk didn't come in for 5 days,
cracked, bleeding nipples, I was on medication, etc., etc., etc.
We're at 11 months and still going strong with breastfeeding. It was
anything but easy, but we did it!
By Lydia
I
hate to break it to you, but plenty of us who had bad deliveries are
still against the bags. I had to emergency c/s and my second daughter
spent 2 weeks in the NICU. I had to pump every 2 hours for 11 days
before she was able to nurse. She's never had a drop of formula and the
nurses knew me well enough by her discharge that they said "We're
guessing you don't want the bag or any pacifiers?" HA! I take offense
to your assumption that women aren't strong enough to weather a bad
delivery or nursing difficulties. Few women have babies with as many
problems as my daughter, and we succeeded. I'm not a superwoman, I'm a
mother.
And you also know enough to know that it's completely normal for a
woman's milk to take up to 5-6 days to come in, especially after a
difficult delivery. Newborns thrive on colostrum, that's NO EXCUSE to
give them formula. They're designed to eat as a little as a tablespoon,
and you know it. Of course the formula companies you work for don't
want women to know that, because they thrive of that kind of fear to
push their crap on worried mothers.
By Kay
Here
we go with the *breastfeeding is ideal* bit again!
No, breastfeeding is NOT ideal - or best!
Breastfeeding is NORMAL.
It is formula that is LESS than normal, both nutritionally and
immunologically speaking. Formula was designed to be used in those VERY
rare times when human milk is not available.
Did you know that formula is the FOURTH choice for babies?
#1 is feeding straight from the mama's breast
#2 is mama's milk fed in another way
#3 is donated human milk
#4 is artificial formula
By Granny
all
these blogs are phony! (Not the responses) Can't anyone tell1 They are
written by the formula company. They are getting certain 'talking
points' into every post (but not every one in every post)
Come on people, wake up!!
By jamelle
I
think giving out samples of formula bags is treating mothers like
children... can they not go buy formula themselves, in a brand of their
own choosing? They're big girls - let them take care of themselves.
By the way, my milk didn't come in until 4-5 days postpartum. I had a
totally normal delivery, too. Sometimes it just takes time to come in,
and having the tempting formula samples there doesn't help. If you're
still not getting any milk after a week, well, maybe there is really a
problem. I hear all the time of moms who didn't get their milk in after
2, 3, 4 days, and so they thought they just didn't have any.
By Erin
My
daughter was born at 35 weeks with a TINY mouth and a weak suck. We got
started nursing right away though and loved it....
And then she became jaundiced. The bad kind. She was put under the bili
lights in the NICU. I had to make a choice. Feed her formula (which the
nurses were pushing) or try to bring my milk in.
I chose the later. And was one of the lucky ones who were able to do
it. The nurses made snide comments to me when I came in every two hours
to syringe feed her pumped milk so she wouldn't suffer from nipple
confusion. This was my precious baby. Why would I give her anything but
the best?
By Kim
