Nurses, did I finally give up, & sufficiently odd that I feel better than I before did,; your experiences?

My son is 5 months, one week and one day old.

I had nursed one since day.
And it didn\'t go well at all.
I knew that the hardest things sometimes are the first 3-4 months when I justified a nursing relationship. Therefore extremelyählte I my self, you give him/it 6 months and then if can disaccustom you better any.
By 3 months, it started to become easier. My son still was nipple on him/it sheild abhängig, to snap, but at least the bleeding nipples held, and he/it could remain, you awaken sessioin for an unmitigated cultivation, and, to click shut him/it finally, was no more a fight with baby arms to be flailed about, that beat me in the face and the breast.

Thought IchIch, that we were at the hard part, looked up matters.
Then approximately two weeks later she/it was worse than ever. Er\'d calculated how clicking shut itself/themselves is, (Arten-von), therefore within a 10 second time period würde he/it snaps, Unklinke, re-handle, Unklinke again, 6or7 times.
He/it started to turn his/its head with every sound and every sight. Again, my nipples started to bleed. I became sick, and my production fell gemu with itßt suppliments take in order to restore supply. My son calculated to decrease sheild like my teat and to play with it as a nurse sooner.
The pump, that stops to work to express milk, I deemed myself happily whether half an ounce could get out i from my engoreged-Brüsten.

The lactation advisor was no help, and my husband so supporting like he/it it was, you simply don\'t know something to do.
Women in my nursing support group actually caught at would give up her/it/them to say, if they were I.
Matters became only worse and worse. I started, my son bad-increases and didn\'t want to hold him/it. I führte for the days the countdown through, until he/it rotated 6 months old, and only troubled to make it to my goal, before I gave up.

Then, I recognized, the whole point of it, that to place 6 month record, was to be guaranteed, I gave him/it a good attempt before I gave up. The Entwöhnen now from vs, that disaccustoms doesn in three weeks, \'t really grip no important medical benefits.
As I started, I wanted to it, nursed until him/it even disaccustomed, at least 12 months.
But as matters started badly to go, I asked myself to give it only my very very much the best before resigning.

And you know something? I gave it my very much the best. And it didn\'t works out.
I won\'t say that I am no dissapointed.
But only before some moments, I gave one bottle of formula to my son, and I felt nearer him/it than I ever did than I nursed.
Therefore what, if I failed when nursing?
at least now, I can find fun in nourishing my son, period.

* With it, any has nurse none of experiences, that they would like to share, other?
Whether nursed you sucessfully or failed like me, did?

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I had PPD
my therapist said that extremely probably caused it from my bad nursing relationship with my son was.

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T78 -
I agree completely with you there!
my son teethed a while for it and although nothing only cut through it, you can see the teeth under the surface and they had pains if he/it bites!

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Mommy of 2 -
be-is done successful nice, nascent as a nurse to hear a history of the second baby,
I have myself in demand whether I will make the next time for the same experiences around,

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through mommy of 2,

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Same matter happended with my son. I bemühte me and troubled me, I nursed him/it 4 months long and as soon as I changed to formula, it was not such a releif havign, about the whole time and getting only, to enjoy the whole experience, to emphasize over it. As mean daughter were born, I knew immediatly, it wäre this time for her/it/them more easily, seemed only so easy to snap. It did some weeks long ouchßer of similar week 4 still sore, everything went give any pain perfect tense and it. They it 8 months and I still nurses, and I am so proud of me. Therefore, congrats on your baby boy and with your nächsten Babydon\'t feeling intimitated, in order to take the trouble again, but either you don\'t emphasize whether it doesn\'t work out.

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thank you for your answers and your support
, to know nicely, that I am not alone on this question,

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through Micah\'s mommy? ICH\'m really sorrowfully it didnt works out für you. Which matters are the most, thereß you itself glad feels and develops a relationship with you baby. I really believe, thereß breast only best is, if both mother as well as baby are glad. Maybe you become better Gl with your secondück has.

Nursing is no easy matter to be learned. Succssefully-Brust becomes and I my 2 months old gefüttert\'d says, that I make beautiful good and will continue to quiet, but I sometimes become paranoid that my milk dries up. I think es\'s, that only a gewöhnliche worry women could have.

But that, on which I can tell with you, is PPD. Oh gosh, thereß the last few weeks miserable was. Tomorrow, I will go to a doctor. I promised schließlich my husband, that I would get help. I was touchy, a vollständig diffrent-Person, approximately 5 days ago, I went and procured paperwork for a divorce. I my mich\'ve verchanged completely or it feels with it that I have. My life is upper side and had a hard time ich\'ve to get done with it.

BTW, which medication did you, if that was any sure, take during BFing?

from JustMe, I believe that you did a hell of a good work!

I gave very fast with my twins on, and on many manners, that go to formula, a relief was for me.

Don\'t let adviced you against taking the trouble again in the future, although... my twins was not nursed for it, you yearn, but my son is almost 6 months and the big doing still!

from T78, I would not believe, that you made bad, because I myself only went, until my son went to hurt you about this age, because came in it as the teeth, more and more, and I could take only so very much. And I can promise myself was fähig, to loosen the duration with him/it and to enjoy, as soon as I got him/it on the bottle.

Therefore you don\'t believe that you didn\'t do any good work, your a mommy and any mommy has an easy duration with it, and other mommies have it one little rough. And I muß it the mommies, who can stick with it even after her/its/their Babys-Zähne-Anfang, that enters, gives.

beside island girls, whom I did also a really bad nursing experience in my son. I felt really guilty and even left Y!A für a while, because I read all myself to feeling like a failure brought nursing questions.

Anyway, my son was difficult to snap. He/it würde on it snaps, begins to suck you correctly, and you then hold and scream. He/it würde this again and again does. Thought I, because maybe I had a c-Teil, was my milk more slowly to be entered. Therefore, I invested a real bißchen money for it, one, to rent hospital degree breast pump. I pumped every chance, that I, sometimes every hour, got, according to lactation advisor. I woke up in the middle of the night to pump.

I troubled myself, in order to latch my son on it, you smooth while you try to build a supply, that pumps. After 2 months I only couldn\'t does it. IchIch was m soüd, that I still had a young grief of the c-Teil. My fiance had only one promotion and always was with the work, that itself into his/its new position niederläßt.

I found from my son that reflux had also a bad case of it. DasDas, that cried, could w to him/itit clicked shut ährend because the doctor said, my son seemed to show signs of the being in pain of the reflux, not all babies experience reflux pain, but mine did.

My son went on medication, and a done fatter formula and he/it was per the gladdest baby! I also was gladder and began schließlich, to get more sleep. As I was on the pumping schedule, würde I my alarm, to wake about me, places in order to pump.

I still feel a little bad one miracles myself what I been able to do differently, but I took the trouble, and maybe I will be successful the respect with my next, I learned a quantity from the whole experience.

through lady Curmudgeon Good for you.... you should be VERY proud of itself! Don\'t ließ somebody you brand feeling about your efforts bad.

I betted next time that will be you and your baby PRO!

through Cheyenne\'s mommy born6/20/09 knows uses i I, as you feel, in order to must the shield as it uses during..., because has i flat nipples,... then bought this matter telephone call handle i on it... it is this matter, that looks like an onion tube matter,.. it helped.. then at finely now held it and she/it i using handle.. she/it, to only keep, snapped on me, my problem is.. not all the time.., but, some times.., but, that is not my nipple that it is she/it the traction this annoyed escape,

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I am confused why you gave up. Nothing is so bad, thereß you nursing resigns. Also, why würde, you even mention that you ever resented your son. Maybe you have PPD. It wouldn\'t hurt, your Gefühle the anger about your doctor, to share,