Hi! so I've got a baby girl, 3 weeks and 2 days old. I just wanted to know your experiences! With my girl she was born 5lbs, she's really been packing on the weight since which I'm really chuffed about (7lbs when she was weighed last week and breastfed). She seems to be in a pattern of spending the evenings crying and fussing for hours on end. I'll try feeding her over and over again, sometimes she seems like she is really refusing my breast which makes me feel like maybe I'm force feeding her or something and I get really guilty! Conflicting words from midwives, they told me breastfed babies can't be overfed, don't need to be burped but internet seems to say otherwise. I haven't been burping but I started last night and did get a few so I'll see if that helps. After these sessions though she sleeps through the night only waking for a feed then back to sleep which I'm grateful for!
Also opinions on public breastfeeding? I really don't care, dignity out the window I'll feed her anywhere, but I was out with my mother yesterday for a meal and she made me feel so embarrassed! Kept telling me to show some dignity, trying to shield me from anybody coming nearby, breastfeeding makes me super thirsty so I asked for water but she told the male waiter to go away when he brought it as "i wasnt appropriate"! She says older people will be disgusted if they see. Maybe it's because I'm a young mum (19) but it felt totally uncomfortable when in any other case I wouldn't care.
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Razpoot · 13/08/2020 07:41
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