re: OT moms, why the reduction in titty feeding?

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every time i try to pull the passifier out when i think shes sleeping she sucks harder on it.

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Absolutely nothing wrong with giving your baby a pacifier. If it helps to comfort baby, go for it. In the NICU those pacifiers are a baby's best friend. Why take away something that soothes them and isn't harming them? Better a pacifier...that you can get rid of as baby gets older...than baby finding their hands/wrists/fingers to suck on that will be much more difficult to break that habit. My baby sister(the one that is mentally challenged) did that as a newborn (suck on her wrist). She still does it sleeping sometimes....at age 27.

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Couldnt keep his blood sugar level up with the first milk that came in the hospitsl, so we had to supplement. Then everything came in fine and went straight breast feeding.

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Same for my son, but my milk never fully came in well enough. By the time we left the hospital he was 8 days old and drinking 3 oz 6-7x/day-- I could never have come up with that.

I just thank God that the nurses & my husband were smart enough to not listen to my La Leche mystical magical fairy tale nursing plan and "not offer him a bottle!! Ever!!" because the poor child could have ended up with serious & permanent brain damage had he not been given a bottle.

Fast forward to when he was 2, exclusively formula fed from 6 weeks on-- never in that time did he get sick, no ear infections, and he could identify all his letters and most numbers before the age of two. Now at 4 he's reading lots of words, doing basic addition, has great critical thinking skills. That half & half 6 weeks of breastfeeding didn't do that.

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We wish we could have stuck with it, but honestly we were losing our minds.

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Same here as well, the stress of trying to make BF'ing happen was making me not want to hold my baby that I'd longed for. That right there was my wake-up moment. Switched to formula & never looked back, kid slept 7 hours at 7 weeks old.

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La Leche


AKA breastfeeding nazis who like to guilt women into thinking if they don't breastfeed they are now horrible mothers who are gonna poison their babies with formula.

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exactly. I still have to defend myself from jackass mothers sometimes. I'm thinking internally, clearly my child is just fine-- probably better than yours! Yet they'll still throw out judge-y remarks.

For me, it was part medical issue, part stress issue. I never made more than about 3 oz in one day of pumping or latching on 7-9 times. And the anxiety it caused me/us was ridonkulous. I learned the lesson a little earlier with baby number 2, closing the milk factory at only 4 weeks. That kid was hungrier and greedier than the first!