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thinking about breastfeeding??.
Hi everyone i am 19 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child & i am already thinking about feeding options....with my 1st i bottle fed from day one...breast feeding wasnt even somehtig i thought about doing. but this time round i would really like to try it....but i am sooo scared. i am scared mainly becasue i have a 14month old little boy, who is a handfull & commiting to do every feed myself scares me. not only this, my other half thinks i shudnt becasue he doesnt get to do the feeds too?....
does anybody else juggle a toddler & a newborn & breastfed?....and what was it like?? xx
does anybody else juggle a toddler & a newborn & breastfed?....and what was it like?? xx
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It isnt easy but if you want to do I would definitely say have a go. Even if you only feed for 2 or so weeks and then use bottles, you have then given baby a good start. I have exclusively breastfed my twins for nearly 7 weeks and am now starting to replace a feed at a time with bottles. While I was pg, and knowing it was twins, my view was that, if it worked, it worked, if it didnt, it didnt. Thankfully, my boys took well to bf and im only giving up now as I believe my body is struggling to feed 2 hungry babies. (They were 5.5lb at birth and at 6 weeks are already nearly 9lb!)
Hope you are happy with whatever you decide.
Germma, Ryan and Alfie (6 + 3)
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my hubby has been very supportive of bf both my girls and didnt mind never feeding them. He was most useful at settling them after a feed, which then gave me a break.
In the early days, there were times when they were both awake in the night or days when i thought i couldnt do it anymore, but these grew to be less and less often as baby got older. i'm still bf my 11 month old, and my 3 year old bf's her teddies. x
my OH is completely behing me brestfeeding wise, i only fed my DD for 3 weeks, and i regret this terribly. i didnt find out until much later in that OH was gutted that i stopped too, as he is very pro breastfeeding.
well, im all ready to make milk for next time!! cant wait!! xx