Re: Re: Birth - --> was Ora/Surgeons...

[Guest guest]

I had the same problem. But I kept trying with all of them. In retrospect I

think they were chewing most of the time instead of sucking. They could not get

enough milk and I was suffering from the pain of my sore breasts. When they

sucked on the right breast, the left one would hurt and vice-versa. But my

breasts became huge when the milk came in and I think the swelling damaged the

tissues.

After the birth of my daughter's third child she had to stay in the hospital for

a couple of weeks because of excessive bleeding and pain from her tubal

ligation. She would express the milk and send it home so her hubby could feed

the baby. The baby would not drink the expressed milk. They tried every nipple

on the market with no luck. Once when I was babysitting I tasted the milk from

the bottle and it tasted terrible. I told her and she quit doing it and

switched to formula. But later when she came home she went back to

breast-feeding and the baby would take it from the breast but not from a bottle.

Ora

> Another area that was hard for me was breast-feeding. I tried both times

with everything in me to successfully nurse my boys...and it just did NOT work

out. I felt like a failure! Even pumping regularly I could only get 1.5 ounces

from both breasts combined. Neither one of my boys seemed to be able to latch

on correctly and first time around I ended up cracked and bleeding. I knew it

wasn't working when the milk looked 'pink', no joke. *sigh* ~Chelle

[Guest guest]

I was lucky. I had pretty great breastfeeding experiences after the initial soreness, and I did it for a long time. There was something really special about my girls being able to verbalize to me in their toddler ways how much they loved nursing, those wonderful smiles I got. I really feel for women who really wanted to and ran into big problems or small ones that became big because of lack of support and help. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. I'm glad it did for me. I'm really hoping all that breastmilk will grow my children into adults whose systems can avoid my various ills - IC, vulvodynia, thyroid disease...

Re: Re: Birth - --> was Ora/Surgeons...

I had the same problem. But I kept trying with all of them. In retrospect Ithink they were chewing most of the time instead of sucking. They could not getenough milk and I was suffering from the pain of my sore breasts. When theysucked on the right breast, the left one would hurt and vice-versa. But mybreasts became huge when the milk came in and I think the swelling damaged thetissues.After the birth of my daughter's third child she had to stay in the hospital fora couple of weeks because of excessive bleeding and pain from her tuballigation. She would express the milk and send it home so her hubby could feedthe baby. The baby would not drink the expressed milk. They tried every nippleon the market with no luck. Once when I was babysitting I tasted the milk fromthe bottle and it tasted terrible. I told her and she quit doing it andswitched to formula. But later when she came home she went back tobreast-feeding and the baby would take it from the breast but not from a bottle.OraOn Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:54:55 -0700 (PDT), Chelle <elliottmag (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:> Another area that was hard for me was breast-feeding. I tried both times with everything in me to successfully nurse my boys...and it just did NOT work out. I felt like a failure! Even pumping regularly I could only get 1.5 ounces from both breasts combined. Neither one of my boys seemed to be able to latch on correctly and first time around I ended up cracked and bleeding. I knew it wasn't working when the milk looked 'pink', no joke. *sigh* ~Chelle