Whoo hoo! We made it 9 weeks breastfeeding! What a feat! I didn’t think we’d get this far with all the trouble we had the first month but here we are!
Last week we had her 2 month check. She’s gained a total of 2 lbs since birth and has grown 3 inches! We have now had to change from 0-3 month clothes to 3-6month clothes because she is so long!
I am so glad I didn’t give up breastfeeding. The ironic thing was that once I came to the conclusion that I was not going to be able to breast feed as long as I thought and that I would have to supplement with formula, breastfeeding got easier! To be honest I thought she would have dried me up by now since she was not feeding so well at the beginning.
I remember sitting on the couch and telling myself, “you know what? It’s not the end of the world if I can’t breast feed for a full 9-12 months like I did with my two boys. The most important thing is that she eats and is growing. So I will breast feed what I can and then formula feed as well if she’s still hungry after breastfeeding. If I dry up, I dry up.”
It was at that point that the stress of breastfeeding went away. She began to latch better and overcome her difficulties in feeding and my milk supply increased. I significantly reduced the amount of times that I was pumping and had only needed to supplement once a day. Now I don’t need to supplement at all!
I’m happy we’re still at it! She is so much happier nursing than drinking from a bottle. She sucks in so much air with the bottle and is super uncomfortable when bottle feeding. Plus she gets more milk faster nursing and I don’t have to stop to burp her in between each ounce, just between sides and at the end. Also, she still spits up but not as much as when she bottle feeds.
Don’t get me wrong. Some days nursing is hard. I have two other littles running around and the 2 year old seems to be at his most… what word should I use….well let’s just say his most independent self. He’s in the kitchen raiding the fridge pulling out Gogurt sticks, cheese sticks, and anything else he can eat. He thinks he’s so sneaky sometimes and tries to hide with it under the table or other times he just walks around knowing that since Mommy is nursing she can’t stop me!
The Ruby Blossom 