Breastfeeding Bingo

[JollySergeantJackrum]

Now I've been bfing for over 6 months, here is my bingo card, in no particular order:

Flat nipples
Poor latch
Engorgement
Lack of weight gain
Formula top ups
Exclusive expressing
Nipple shields
Cracked nipple
Bleeding nipple
Black poo (DS, not me!)
Leakage
Oversupply
Green poo
Lansinoh
La leche league
Mastitis
Not sleeping through at 6 months
Sling feeding
Feeding in public
Feeding outside
Feeding in the car (not while moving)
Massive boobs
Milky smiles
Little pawing hands
Bottle refusing

What are yours?

I get all those except black poo, plus mastitis and thrush

The nipple didn't actually bleed, the blood was in the milk when I first tried pumping :)

In no particular order since March 2006 I have had:-

Flat nipples
Poor latch
Breast refusal
Exclusively bottle fed (ebm/formula)
Lack of weight gain
Low supply
Formula top ups
Exclusive expressing
Nipple shields
Cracked nipple
Bleeding nipples
Leakage
Reflux
La leche league (fab help)
NCT (fab help)
Drugs in Breastmilk helpline/Hale's Medications and mother's milk - life saver
PND-OCD/generalised OCD
Mastitis
Thrush
Ductal Thrush
Not sleeping through at 18 months
Sling feeding
Feeding in public
Feeding outside
Feeding in the car (not while moving)
Expressing in the car (not while moving)
Hand expressing
Breast compressions
Massive boobs
Milky smiles

Little pawing hands
Bottle refusing
Tube feeding
Bubble palates
nursing aversion
nursing strikes
nursing whilst pg
tandem nursing
tandem nursing whilst pg
toddler/preschooler nursing
maintaining supply whilst mother hospitalised (multiple times)
maintaining supply whilst baby hospitalised (multiple times)
Training to be a peer supporter/mother supporter/breastfeeding counsellor

And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat (well if I had a do over I would do somethings differently but no way would I not bf)

It's funny, the list is overwhelmingly negative, but I also would definitely BF again. The positives and the good feelings outweigh all of the difficulties.

I feel for you on not sleeping through at 18 months though! My body is attempting to pack in after 6 months!

I wouldn't say my list was overwhelmingly negative - I counted less than 20 out of 40+ that were negative (I don't count not sleeping through at 18m as a negative - just normal behaviour for a infant!). DD3 is now 2 and still has the occasional night feed (~5am) and I haven't cracked yet

You know, TS, you're right... I've got mastitis just now. And shingles. So I'm feeling a little sorry for myself! Looking at my list less than half are negative too. So it's not all bad :)

No its all good, still breast feeding despite a few minor setbacks :)

God I hated breastfeeding. The pain of thrush, the agony of mastitis, the exhaustion, the bind, the lack of weight gain for my sons....
I ebf my first two, but when I had my third I couldn't face it all again and went onto the bottle. It was bliss!