Need your extra Breast Milk for my tinee tiny..
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I had no breast milk too and I had to accept to feed my baby with formula...do not worry about that, it is a good alternative and your baby will be good, but do not insist on breast feeding: babies need to be fed and grow up properly, so my suggestion is to buy formula as soon as possible and give to your baby. Further, at this age, 4 / 5 months you can start with fruit cream, rice cream, vegetables cream and I suggest you to try!
Gataloca
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This is why so many people give up on breastfeeding so easily... They don't get right advices some time.....
carang
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i think you misunderstood her. while, i think, all of us would agree that "breast is best", it just doesn't work for some people. my sister-in-law tried and tried and tried, and then eventually had no choice but to turn to formula. her baby was starving. she was in canada and had all the "right" advice. but it just didn't work for her. she beat herself up for it for quite a while. when #2 came along, she was so traumatised by her experiences with #1, she didn't even try with #2.
while it is ok to encourage women to breastfeed as much as possible (and a milk bank is a great idea!), i don't think that women should feel like they are "wrong" if they choose to formula feed.
we all do what we think is in the best interest of our children. something that is often forgotten (i'm guilty of it, too, sometimes)
while it is ok to encourage women to breastfeed as much as possible (and a milk bank is a great idea!), i don't think that women should feel like they are "wrong" if they choose to formula feed.
we all do what we think is in the best interest of our children. something that is often forgotten (i'm guilty of it, too, sometimes)
Oh yes, this is my meaning. My daughter is quite 1 year old and when she wants my breast I still allow it to her, and this is since the very first moment of her life. I've tried and tried and tried, every day I've been trying to feed her with my breast milk, I took also some pills to stimulate my production of breast milk, I was vegetarian and I started to eat meat because someone has suggested me to try because proteines deriving from animals may help the prodcution of breast milk...I tried all the medical and not medical remedies to succeed in feeding my baby with my breast but.....it didn't work. When she was 5 days old, doctors of the clinic where she were born, in Milan, almost forced me to add formula at least 5/6 time per day because my baby was too small and didn't take enough weight: I kept on trying with breast feeding but I always added formula because I wanted to be sure she was good. And now she is good even if I couldn't give her my breast milk. This is my meaning.