Nursing Story

[starwishful]

I'm posting my breastfeeding story here because I'm applying to be a mentor over at adopt_a_mom. Feel free to read if you're interested or ignore if you're not! :-P

Comments

[laneymunoz]

Maybe this is a stupid and/or silly question, and I don't at all mean it to sound bad, but when you say things like this:

They would try to make me feel better about supplementing, but I couldn’t get past needing to be able to exclusively breastfeed.

I guess I wonder why specifically you felt the need to exclusively breastfeed. I feel weird even asking this but I'm really curious! I'm not even saying I don't understand it - I guess I'd just like to know your specific reasons.

[starwishful]

That's actually a fun question for me to answer

[mangan9]

I don't get to pop on here much anymore, but I should tell you that at the time you had Caelan, you posted your birth story and it convinced me that I needed to look into alternatives for if/when I started having babies - in a good way. So think of it this way - because of you, I'm going to a birthing center with a doula and planning on breastfeeding. I never had given much of it a thought before, but having read your experiences I knew there could be something other than the norm. :)

Good luck with your mentoring!