Dear God,
I hate bottles.
If and when we get to meet, can we sit down and chat? I really would like to know why someone who is so pro-breastfeeding can't produce enough milk to feed her children. Was I, in a past life, one of the scientists who came up with baby formula and convinced mothers it was better than their own milk, and now I'm paying my karmic debt?
Until then, I will continue to use the bottles, I will keep up pumping 1/2 a teaspoon at a time to add to my son's bottle, and I will try to remember that the bottles are really only for a very short time in the grand scheme of things, but it will always puzzle me.
Love, jen.
5 comments:
i have nothing to say but "amen."
Right there with you. My supply is minimal, my kid won't nurse, I pump all.the.time for small change, we get donor milk, and I was using a Lact-Aid for all her feedings until I got too utterly overwhelmed with it. To compound my utter frustration with the situation, I was at a party the other night, mixing up a bottle for her, and this woman comes up and says, "Excuse me, but I'm a nutritionist for WIC, and I just wanted to ask you if you've ever considered breastfeeding."
I almost decked her.
Angela, did you take a deep breath and explain your situation? I get SOOOOOOOO tired of doing that but I've gotten so good at it that I sound really perky and sarcastic while I explain everything that I've tried, and those who ask start to regret even bringing it up...
Hilarious that the nutritionist for WIC asked you if you've ever considered breastfeeding... I would have been tempted to say "no, I'm on WIC, and it's a hell of a lot easier to take the formula that you'll give me than to pay for herbs, a supplementer and renting a hospital-grade pump!"
ru, it blows my mind how many of us can say 'amen' to my post. GRRRR. And they tell us it's so natural and easy. My you-know-what.
i'm with all of the above. they way i figure it, if i was able to breastfeed for two years, then ANYBODY can. drives me nuts to see friends with ample overflowing supply just decide "eh, i don't like this." and quit after a few months. argh!!!
Just wanted to check in and see how you're doing, Jen.
I hope you're having an easier time breastfeeding. Try to keep in mind that you're actually not a loser if it doesn't work out ;-) I have 3 kids, breastfed 2 of them. When my daughter with DS was born.... I think my body just needed the energy to cope with how life just took an unexpected turn. She didn't latch on, so I pumped. I cried, pumped, cussed and pumped some more. For the first 2 weeks, everything was fine. Then it all dried up and I was going nuts trying to squeeze every last drop out, until my sister (who practically was a lactating cow with hers...) told me that I was not a bad mom because I couldn't produce more milk than I was.
Neither are you.
Give that little baby a hug from me.
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