Breast feeding journey. How is everyone doing breast feeding?? He’s 11 days old today and honestly it hasn’t been easy at all. Not giving up yet!

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This is my third that I'm breast-feeding in the last 3-4 years. The first two were pretty easy, but this little guy is more difficult and struggles with some latch issues.

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Not the best but also really well. I have a strong let down so spitting up lots is our biggest issue. Luckily it’s no longer painful once their mouths grew a bit and they were able to take more of my nipple into their mouths. It’s nice bonding time tbh but the sprinkler system that comes on makes it so messy and the biggest negative to my oversupply

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Its was rough in the beginning, had to pump in the hospital cause his blood sugar levels went down too much. But from losing 2ozs of birth weight by day 5, his 2 week appointment showed he gained almost a lb back (with me only breastfeeding). Now he is a month old (his appointment next week) but his daddy and i tried seeing how much he weighs with our home scale and its showing 10lbs! 😬 he likes his food apparently. Sometimes it seems like all I'm ever doing is feeding him lol ive also been pumping every now and then and using the hakka to build up a milk stash for when I go back to work or if we have somewhere we have to go where i can't feed him or if i have to go somewhere and his daddy is watching him.

Dont mind the text but thats his milk drunk face lol 😍😍😍

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Don’t give up you’ve got this that’s the advice I can give my little one is 9 days old and it’s been hell breastfeeding, I’ve found it so hard. We even ended up in hospital on day 4 due to him losing 13% body weight since birth and was told I would need to formula feed to top him up, but with that he took little formula, so I just keep giving him boob as many times as he would request. Sometimes I felt that’s all I was doing, but it worked and now he is gaining little but gaining and not losing for the moment. We still have latching problems as he has a slight tongue tie but I think we are on the path to getting this! 
So stay strong you can do this and as my mum said if you only manage one month at least you gave something to your little one.

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It has been rough! I told my mother in law breastfeeding is not for the weak lol. But I will say my lactation treats, nipple cream & this new nipple shield I just got has helped tremendously. Good luck mamas we got this!

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Oh, Mommas! It gets better, I promise! 
We are almost 3 weeks into breastfeeding, but this is my 5th time nursing a baby. It came back to me pretty quickly. We had an issue with baby not liking the left side as soon as she was born and I still have to work with her to get latched properly some times, but it's going well. 
I've had struggles in the past, but I am determined to breastfeed this munchkin for at least a yeay, but we're hoping to 2 or more.

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Mastitis by day 5 over here! Still going strong though. The lactation consultant was embarrassed to tell me my nipples were too big for her mouth, but I already knew that. Did a lot of pumping, so building a stash as well. I plan to stay the course though!

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Ours has been ruff with latching it take us awhile to get on

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Also having a rough time.  I always worry about my supply and their weight. My first lost a ton of weight.  If I hadn't switched to formula around 3 weeks I probably would have starved him to death and that experience scared me. This is my 3rd baby and this time around seems to be going okay but I get stressed.  I really want to make breastfeeding work but if I stress about it too much I might go to formula again.

Breast feeding journey. How is everyone doing breast feeding?? He’s 11 days old today and honestly it hasn’t been easy at all. Not giving up yet!

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