
Breastfeeding has been an experience in itself. There were times when I almost gave it up, times when I cried and times of tremendous joy.
Alex's doctor told us not to introduce a bottle until she was six weeks old. During my "worry stage" I often worried about Alex getting confused between her soother, a bottle (with pumped breast milk) and breastfeeding. Back then I limited her soother use and I hesitated to use a bottle. I had been pumping and freezing but I was paranoid that she would stop breastfeeding if we bottle-fed her.
The night I went to the hospital because of my panic attack was the first time Alex had a bottle. I even worried that she wouldn't take her first bottle and she would go hungry. The nurse at the emergency department assured me Alex was fine.
Now I don't worry about any of the above. She mostly eats from the bottle, gets her Binky whenever she fusses and is a little lazy with the breastfeeding. Oh well, I can pump until I can't pump anymore. She will never starve. I'm so much calmer and carefree now.
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