getting over idea of boobs as a sexual thing ??
hi i have just posted something similar in breastfeeding forum but thought i might get more response here.
i perhaps want to try breastfeeding second (due 5 weeks) and didnt with my first.
but my boobs have been, and still are now a sexual thing for me and hubbie (as am sure will be for other couples too) and am finding it difficult to get around the idea of a baby being there, when it usually my husband ?? hope that makes sense. does anyone else feel this way, or felt this way before starting feeding and how did you get over it?
did you just stop all boob contact with husband in the months you are feeding for instance? how do you swap between boobs for husband and boobs for baby if that makes sense?
i perhaps want to try breastfeeding second (due 5 weeks) and didnt with my first.
but my boobs have been, and still are now a sexual thing for me and hubbie (as am sure will be for other couples too) and am finding it difficult to get around the idea of a baby being there, when it usually my husband ?? hope that makes sense. does anyone else feel this way, or felt this way before starting feeding and how did you get over it?
did you just stop all boob contact with husband in the months you are feeding for instance? how do you swap between boobs for husband and boobs for baby if that makes sense?
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But I know what you mean - its more the logistics of it that gets me - what if he tried to play with my boobs and milk shot everywhere? Aaargh that wouldn't be good! xxx
i think if i did breastfeed id have to ban husband from that area til i stopped (for 6 months or whatever) which neither of us would be happy about! but it would just feel too weird to switch from one to the other.
SORRY JUST READ THAT BACK AND REALISED IVE JUST REPEATED MYSELF DUH!!
[Modified by: lauragcam on April 16, 2008 08:51 PM]
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I thought i'd tell u my experiance in the hope it helps.
I bf my LO for 9months and i really enjoyed it, but i too was worried about the sexual side of my (.)(.) which hubby loved to play with given the chance.
However it really does feel completely different once u start doing it and to be honest they were so sore at the beginning that i would have quite easily knocked dh out had he touched them. I found the 1st few months whilst baby was feeding regularly that they weren't to be touched as milk would come out, however once a routine of feeding developed and it wasn't as often the milk was just there and just came forward once baby suckled rather than anytime a feed was due or baby cried so once that happened hubby could touch as much as he liked and they became sexual (.)(.) again!
Hope that makes sense?!
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