Laughing so hard at your well-endowed mother being unable to breastfeed. 🤣 warning, TMI incoming!: I am very well endowed. I’m a small boned, 5’2” thing. Think Dolly Parton. When we were learning about how to breastfeed to be ready for our first baby my husband would tease me that my areolas were the size of dinner plates. He wasn’t wro…
Laughing so hard at your well-endowed mother being unable to breastfeed. 🤣 warning, TMI incoming!: I am very well endowed. I’m a small boned, 5’2” thing. Think Dolly Parton. When we were learning about how to breastfeed to be ready for our first baby my husband would tease me that my areolas were the size of dinner plates. He wasn’t wrong. 🤣 They scared even me in and after pregnancy. They taught that the whole areola has to go into the baby’s mouth and well you can imagine our horror at that thought. 😆 Well when our baby arrived the first two weeks was really frustrating for both of us as she struggled to latch on. Luckily I bought a pump and we bottle fed her my own milk until I could resolve the issues. Boy oh boy - I could feed the world! One pumping session would fill two to three large bottles easily. My freezer was stock full. 🤣 And you couldn’t touch me, and I couldn’t accidentally bump up against anything, or it was like a raging car wash absolutely everywhere. That’s when we realized it was too powerful for the baby. 😂😂 I had to pump half what was in me BEFORE feeding her. Then she latched on with no problem. I had so much milk I had to donate it to the la leche league.
But after 6 months I suddenly dried up. I didn’t have enough to feed her. I was so distraught about it because I wanted to feed her for her first full year. Luckily I still had quite a lot in my freezer to use for a couple more months, but then I had to start using formula when that ran out. I was so turned off by the smell of it. It was not natural smelling at all. My baby drank it just fine though, but I cried the first time I fed it to her. I wish I had not donated so much of my milk because I could have fed her through her first year with the amount I had donated.
I never produced that much milk with my second two though. Enough to feed them their first 6 months and then I’d dry up again, but didn’t have any in the freezer to go longer. I’ve always wondered why I dried up at the six month mark. Lord knows I was a milk machine with my first! So I had to use formula with my second and third more than I would have liked.
My babies got all the vaccines because I didn’t know any better. I regret it every day of my life too now that I know what I do today. All three developed disabilities literally overnight after one of their vaccines. In those years (90s) it was like 7 shots? 10? Not like today, but still. I hope that six months of breast feeding benefitted them in some other way given the damage the vaccines did to them. 😢
Laughing so hard at your well-endowed mother being unable to breastfeed. 🤣 warning, TMI incoming!: I am very well endowed. I’m a small boned, 5’2” thing. Think Dolly Parton. When we were learning about how to breastfeed to be ready for our first baby my husband would tease me that my areolas were the size of dinner plates. He wasn’t wrong. 🤣 They scared even me in and after pregnancy. They taught that the whole areola has to go into the baby’s mouth and well you can imagine our horror at that thought. 😆 Well when our baby arrived the first two weeks was really frustrating for both of us as she struggled to latch on. Luckily I bought a pump and we bottle fed her my own milk until I could resolve the issues. Boy oh boy - I could feed the world! One pumping session would fill two to three large bottles easily. My freezer was stock full. 🤣 And you couldn’t touch me, and I couldn’t accidentally bump up against anything, or it was like a raging car wash absolutely everywhere. That’s when we realized it was too powerful for the baby. 😂😂 I had to pump half what was in me BEFORE feeding her. Then she latched on with no problem. I had so much milk I had to donate it to the la leche league.
But after 6 months I suddenly dried up. I didn’t have enough to feed her. I was so distraught about it because I wanted to feed her for her first full year. Luckily I still had quite a lot in my freezer to use for a couple more months, but then I had to start using formula when that ran out. I was so turned off by the smell of it. It was not natural smelling at all. My baby drank it just fine though, but I cried the first time I fed it to her. I wish I had not donated so much of my milk because I could have fed her through her first year with the amount I had donated.
I never produced that much milk with my second two though. Enough to feed them their first 6 months and then I’d dry up again, but didn’t have any in the freezer to go longer. I’ve always wondered why I dried up at the six month mark. Lord knows I was a milk machine with my first! So I had to use formula with my second and third more than I would have liked.
My babies got all the vaccines because I didn’t know any better. I regret it every day of my life too now that I know what I do today. All three developed disabilities literally overnight after one of their vaccines. In those years (90s) it was like 7 shots? 10? Not like today, but still. I hope that six months of breast feeding benefitted them in some other way given the damage the vaccines did to them. 😢