Make sure you buy a pump and a nipple shield. At the hospital Emma wouldn’t latch and the LC there was trying to make me buy a hospital pump and she said I would have to give her formula if she wouldn’t latch. I had neither at first so my mom went out and bought both because I was determined to breastfeed. I DID give her formula in the hospital but I spoon-fed it to her. If she took an actual bottle then she would see how easy it is to get food and she would not want to latch even more.
My milk didn’t come in until day 5 and she had trouble latching for about a week. After that she got good at it but it was SOOO painful. ‘Breast Shells’ and lanolin helped a lot. To establish your supply the baby needs to stimulate the breast a lot. Don’t think that you are starving your baby if you don’t supplement. You’re not. When my milk came in I would feed her then pump to relieve the pain from engorgement. BIG MISTAKE. Doing this caused me to have an oversupply and whenever I would try to feed Emma she would choke and sputter because there was so much milk. She started getting green poopy diapers and Dr. Google told me that it was because she was getting too much foremilk (low calorie sweet milk) so I started feeding her on only one side for each feeding. Apparently that wasn’t good enough because she was STILL having green poop. Now I feed her twice on one side. So one breast doesn’t get emptied for up to 6 hours. There is a worry about clogged ducts but if I get too engorged I hand express before I feed her.
If anyone ever has any questions you can ask me :D
Edit: buy a pump even if you aren’t planning to use it and keep the receipts just incase! :)
Anonymouslol yes we’re using condoms all the time now no matter what and I’m getting the mirena put in as soon as I make an appointment :)
I was still having dark brown discharge and sometimes spotting and yesterday I started bleeding. The bleeding is how my period used to be and its just different than the lochia blood or whatever.. (do I sound crazy?)
I’ve ruined 2 pairs of undies already because I leaked weirdly through the back past my pads -_-
Tmi maybe but the bleeding started after the 2nd night we had sex…
Is this my period already?! I thought breastfeeding was supposed to delay it! GRR
She is getting so big!! 6 weeks old now. :( She’s been in 3 month clothes from Carters for like 1 1/2 weeks now and size 1 diapers for 2 weeks. She normally is a generally okay baby but sometimes she wants to nurse every hour at night/morning and it drives me nuts -_- She’s awake ALOT more now and only takes 1 long nap a day and the rest are an hour or less. She does real smiles sometimes that aren’t sleepy smiles or gas and it melts my heart. <3 I can’t wait until she starts doing it more and more!! Also she figured out how to suck her thumb today :D I think it’s so cute lol. I will post pictures later and I will try to update more often!! :)
I’ve been doing pretty well as a parent. Breastfeeding has been completely successful and is still going well. I went back to school last week for a few hours and found out that I can go back to regular high school even if I only finish two credits. :D (I previously thought that I had needed to complete 3). Jordan helps me out by changing like 80% of the diapers but he mainly plays xbox in the basement all day. He hasn’t been very nice to me lately but I told him about how upset I was and he’s a little better now. I fit into most of my pre-pregnancy jeans but I weigh less now. I have my post partum checkup tomorrow and I will probably get the mini-pill. Other than that I can’t think of anything lol.
AnonymousIf I go by my due date and cycle, I conceived on July 14th. so I would have been 15 for one day :D LOL
AnonymousI know I haven’t been on lately :( I feel like I missed so much because so many people are having their babies! I’ll try to go on more :)
Anonymousno!! xD her eyes are rounder now lol
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