All 3 Ds's were bottle fed. I tried to breast feed each time but just could do it.
I need to be able to do it straight away(ok not literally, I know it takes time to perfect) when this one is born but I know the same things will happen.
Baby won't be able to latch on because
a)my nipples aren't sticky outy enough.
b)the pain of milk coming in is, for me 100 times worse than labour. I just can't get through that pain.
I think my problem is partly physical but partly mental.
I know how to bottle feed and do all the crap that goes with it so I can feel myslef leaning towrds that again. It's easy to bottle feed when you've done it before
The physical is hard to describe and if I ever meet more of you face to face you'll all have images of my boobs and nipples floating around you head after this detailed description
My nipples aren't inverted as per the text book but they are flat alot of the time. The areola(sp?) is really big around the actual nipple so I've always struggled with latching on.
When the milk comes in by boobs take on a very strange shape. It looks like I've had a boob job(as with every woman at this stage) but the implants have gone hard and teh nipple stems aren't long enough to reach from inside to out. It's like they are totally flat all over, not just the areola...the whole boob and the areola is slight concave in the centre. With Ds3 they were almost square...honestly even Dh mentioned it!!!!!
I'm sure thsi is what causes the agony, my boobs gets big and with the nipple stem being short it causes agonising pain because they're heaving against each other.
Does that make any sense?? could that be right or am I just talking crap. It certainly looks like this is waht happens.
Anyway...how can I get around the square boobs and concave nips thing?
I know it's along way off yet but now that I've finally reached the 2nd trimester I feel like i can finally tackle this.
(excuse the typos...I'm sure there are plenty but you know me)