What is your favorite thing about breastfeeding?

[allisgood1]

I was thinking about this this morning as I'm halfway there with having dc3. My most favorite bit is when they are around 3 months +, come off (shortly after let down, milk spraying everywhere), just to smile at you melts my heart everytime even though we are both getting soaked in breast milk

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[SpecialStuff]

Congratulations sizzles.

I enjoy the way dd pads my boob sometimes like a kitten, and the fact it mostly gets her to sleep without fail. My favourite bit is when she pulls off in the milky coma stage and she looks so beautiful and sweet and innocent and content, I sometimes stare at her for a little while before putting her down.

[Liveinthepresent]

ooh lovely lovely thread. congrats sizzles

for me it is definitely the way my DS pats my boob during feeds at the moment - i think he wants the milk to hurry up now he is bigger. when he was tiny the let down used to make him cough and splutter.
I will miss it so much when we stop.

[Romily]

I loved the sleep morning cuddly feeds all cozied up in bed. Gutted that I am not still breast feeding.

[fridayfreedom]

With out wanting to sound wierd , I used to like the tingling feeling of the letdown. I still get a sensation in my breasts when I hear a small baby crying for milk!

[SizzlesSit]

Thanks everyone. Im looking forward to those satisfied drunken looks soon too. When the baby pulls off and looks in total bliss

[Pollycracker]

Oh and the weight loss! I ate like a pig while breastfeeding DD1. And of course I had out on some baby weight.

By time I finished feeding her (she was 10 months and we wanted to ttc), I was a size 6!!

[soupmaker]

I love how a massive middle of the night feed makes DD2 conk out. That drunk on milk look is just gorgeous.

I haven't lost loads of weight, just my baby weight. Had been hoping to lose a stone extra! Must be the cakes!

I also love being able to leave the house without thinking about it as food is on tap.

[Sunflower1985]

When we're feeding lying down and ds is half asleep and starts rooting like a truffle pig.
First day back at work today and am expressing while he's at nursery. Missing him so much.

[LikeCandy]

I love breastfeeding!
But probably my favourite thing is that so far (13.5months) I am yet to encounter a bump/scrape/teary/sleepy situation that boob can't solve!

[Cariad007]

I wouldn't say I love it but it's free, no faffing around with bottles, I can feed lying down, and the weight has dropped off despite my scoffing of cakes. I weigh 5 kilos less than I did before I got pregnant!

[Bunbaker]

"The cuddles"

Why does everyone think that FF babies don't get cuddles? Because they do.

I BF DD for 6 months and then bottle fed her. She got cuddled just as much when she was feeding from a bottle.

[QuietNinjaTardis]

When she pops off to grin at me, she looks so cheeky. When she's fallen asleep and I'm trying to get her to unlatch and she roots around looking for the boob again in her sleep. When she rests her hand on my chest.
The fact that I've helped her grow from a skinny legged thing into the chunka munka she is now. Actually she's not chunky she's quite a petite baby but her legs are so fat I want to eat them!

[MoreSkyThanWeNeed]

My baby is less than a year old but this thread is making me so broody for another one!
I'm going to write down my bf memories (mammary memories, if you will!) and put them in the baby book. Sooner than I realise, this will all be a very distant memory. Sniff.

[Bunbaker]

Can someone explain what is so enjoyable about the actual process of breastfeeding.

Most of you have waxed lyrical about the benefits, which I agree with, but I didn't find the actual process enjoyable (once I had got past the initial pain), or unenjoyable.

[gamerchick]

This thread seems to be irritating you bunbaker is there not allowed for a thread just to 'be'?

[Bunbaker]

No, it isn't irritating, I just want to understand why. Honestly, do some women get some kind of physical release or pleasure from breastfeeding?

[CleanAllOfTheThings]

The way it seems to fix any problem and offers such comfort. I know some people disagree but I think feeding to sleep is a wonderful perk!
I just love how much dd enjoys it and they way she roots for the nipple when she's asleep.
Friday - I weirdly like the letdown too.

[CleanAllOfTheThings]

There is a satisfying sense of release when your baby has gone longer than usual without feeding and they finally latch on!

[CleanAllOfTheThings]

I forgot my absolute favourite thing. When dd is tired and latches on, watching her eyes roll around and her eyelids get heavy as she feeds. It is the cutest thing ever.

[QuietNinjaTardis]

The actual breastfeeding isn't pleasurable but enjoying snuggles ESP sleepy ones whilst feeding and having that closeness feels fab. And yes I felt the same when I was ff my son, I always sat down and gave him a cuddle while he ate bit this thread is about breastfeeding not ff. if you don't like it then go away bunbaker.

[Bunbaker]

There is no need for that. I genuinely wanted to understand.

[gamerchick]

Well no here no physical pleasure nursing.. I never noticed any anyroad... The pleasure comes from how your kid responds. It's a good feeling seeing them milk drunk and filling out chunky knowing it was your milk that did it etc.

Aside from the early days when you fill up and feel fit to burst that is as has been said

[kinkytoes]

bunbaker no one here has said ff babies don't get cuddles. This is a place to celebrate bf, nothing more. Don't change the agenda please.

For me, I love the feeling that his little body next to mine sets off a chemical reaction which lets him feed. Still feeding past a year and we both still get so much from it.

[CountBapula]

Both my DSes did this funny thing as newborns when they'd had enough milk. They'd unlatch really suddenly by throwing their heads back, then they'd get the cutest facial expression - their eyebrows would shoot up, they'd wrinkle their little foreheads and purse their lips. Then if I lifted them up they'd have their hands behind their heads and their legs bent up - little bundles of contentedness.

DS2 is only six weeks and I'm loving it every time it happens

[deepinthewoods]

Oxytocin. It is called the hormone of love.

It's what happens when a let down happens, and stimulates milk to be produced. It also stimulates areas in our brain to do with love, trust, nurturing, induces feelings of caring and calm.