Let down feels like electricity
Drink lots of fluids or your supply will plummet
It's okay to nurse to sleep
It's okay to nurse on demand
Babe might nurse all day
Working mothers may have to supplement with Formula--it's okay! And I'm not as angry either.
Around 6 months the supply gets a little dodgy, thus the decision to supplement
Babe bites when teething and overreacting doesn't dissuade the biting, you must be vigilant
People think you are a hippy if you are still breastfeeding at 8+ months
It's against the law in my state to breastfeed in public, you must be discrete or it's indecent exposure
You don't leak/have to wear the pads after while, I think for me it was 6 months (?)
It's hilarious when the babe becomes a pro, he can trick feed-ha!
It doesn't matter if he just had a bottle at daycare, as soon as we get home he wants to nurse. I call it getting reacquainted :)
Breast milk heals wounds and apparently will unstuff a stopped up nose. I couldn't get it to last very long when I needed it though--in the middle of the night, trying to get a drop to fall in his nostril or squirting some milk on my finger to rub in his nose. Ridiculous!
I guess a breast fed baby never sleeps through the night?!?!
(Stopped with first child 2 weeks before his 2nd birthday...started weaning on his first birthday)
Update for the second time around---****
My experience:
Milk comes in quicker with the second babe.
She wasn't as ravenous as my first
But now she kind of is--because she's full force teething??!
Nursing through the night is exhausting yet I'm not really tired and somehow functioning?!
I'm still wearing pads at 8 months..I think I was 10 months up^ there.
I haven't had to supplement with formula yet and I probably won't have to since I have a good storage of frozen milk
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