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what's your perfect breastfeeding moment?

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Jenkeywoo · 08/03/2007 23:48

DD2 is 11 months and a bit addicted to BF. Some days I feel so tired and fed up with it all, recently we've had teeth issues and up all night issues but this afternoon DD1 was asleep and DD2 too, when she woke up after an hours sleep and I went upstairs climbed into bed with her (she sleeps in our bed) and popped a boob into her mouth. She was all pink and warm like a little baby piglet and I fell asleep feeding her and it was perfection. (until DD1 woke up and came in with pooey nappy!). Do you ever get one of those perfect breastfeeding moments? It felt like my milk was flowing from my heart to hers and I've never felt closer to her.

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yellowrose · 09/03/2007 18:21

Jenkey - I think both your daughters have a very HIGH probablity to bf. Do you know why ? Because you will be there to "train" them when they have their first babies - it is the knowledge and encouragment that will get passed on

When ds was about a year old, I asked my niece, about 11 yo then, whether she had ever seen a baby being bf ? She said not really, only once in hospital when her step-brother was born. Neither she or her little step-brother were bf for more than a week.

So, I said come upstairs with me and help me put your cousin down for a nap. She said, "Oh, but where is his bottle" ? I said no need and bf my ds in front of her until he fell asleep.

She said "Ah, that's so sweet !". I don't see my niece very often, but she knows auntie is a bf-er !

ChippyMinton · 09/03/2007 18:28

DD was very ill with bronchiolitis when she was 10 days old and we spent several anxious days in hospital. I was expressing for her to have tube feeds and to keep my milk supply going too.. The first time she was strong enough to BF again i was crying buckets, as i'd been so worried about her. She's a hale and hearty 3 yo now.

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blueshoes · 09/03/2007 18:52

Franny: "Feeding in the middle of the night with his little face gazing up at me in the dark, and feeling like we were the only people awake in the whole world

The moment when they sort of pass out in a haze of joy and just lie there with their limbs sprawled and a bit of milk dribbling down their chin"

So true. It is like it satisfies something in their souls ...

ProfYaffle · 09/03/2007 19:04

My hormones must be going haywire, this thread is making me really teary.

dd2 is 14 days old today and has taken to bf like a duck to water. I bf dd1 for a year and was really anxious that it went well with dd2 too, I'm so relieved she's taking after her sister.

Current bf magic moments include dd2 with creamy hindmilk smeared all over her little chops and dd1 studying what's going on with grave seriousness then lifting up her top to inspect her nipples and cover them in Lansinoh!

hunkermunker · 09/03/2007 19:05

{{{Franny}}}

And {{{Boris}}}

WelshBoris · 09/03/2007 19:09

I know, no wonder I'm so damn broody thanks to threads like this!!

I am aching to feed again. I swear I can feel my milk coming in some days when I see newborns.

Nigel thinks I am barmy, but his ex did'nt BF so he doesn't know the first thing about it. He will learn.

monkeymonkeymoomoo · 09/03/2007 19:17

I've got tears streaming down my face reading this thread, thinking about giving up BF DD who is 1

But I love the last feed of the night when she visibly relaxes in my arms

tibsy · 09/03/2007 19:31

i didnt manage to breastfeed my son (12yrs ago) but was determined to stick with it this time and i absolutely adore it.
i love the fact that its the only sign that i have tried with dd (6 months) so far and the smile on her face when i understand from her sign that she wants milk is THE best!
i love the fact that there's such an intense rush of love and contentment that comes with bfing.
i love the fact that i was able to do it this time..........
in fact, i just love it all

misdee · 09/03/2007 19:39

this morning, when dd3 who is 2, sneakily lifted my pj top and latched on. she looked up at me with her brown eyes twinkling as if to say 'you know you cant say no mum'.

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Jenkeywoo · 09/03/2007 21:54

Thanks everyone - I've been feeling really pressured by everyone to stop lately (have no intention of doing so) but this thread has made me realise why I love it so much.

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MummyPossum · 09/03/2007 21:54

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stressteddy · 09/03/2007 22:01

Oh the milky breath. Deep joy
Feeding in bed whilst both falling asleep
I miss it so much - my ds stopped wanting bf at one.
Enjoy every moment

mootie · 09/03/2007 22:02

When she puts her little paw on my breast while dream-feeding lying down.

A particularly enthusiastic but gentle feed in the bath - her naked body curled up into mine.

mootie · 09/03/2007 22:04

I said paw, but obviously she's a baby, not a cat. Right.

procrastimater · 09/03/2007 22:16

This thread reminds me of so many fantastic moments with ds and dd - but Today I loved the fact that though dd (11m) had slipped over and bumped her head her tears and pain could be instantly halted by bf'ing - it truly is a magic feeling being able to comfort and soothe so easily - seeing her face smiling ecstacically up at me after a few mins feeding then immediately going back to play with her big brother - with a bump on her head but no sign of distress... lovely. I didn't enjoy the head bump but it is a fact of life when they are cruising the furniture I suppose

Goodasgold · 09/03/2007 22:18

I loved the way dd1 caressed my ribcage whilst feeding.

And dd2 (11.5mths) chuckles when she sees a boom boom. She loves it.

When dd2 had conjunctivitis and and I asked dh to help me put some stuff in her eye, some went into her mouth and dh said 'It's gone in her mouth, that can't be nice'
It was bm and her eye was fine within 2 mins.

TeeCee · 09/03/2007 22:20

My perfect breastfeeding moment - easy:

My DD was born with Down's syndrome. A shock, pretty stop in your tracks, numb, painful awful type of shock.
She was taken off almost straightaway and put into intensive care. I put my love for her on hold. The next morning she was taken by ambulance to a specialist hospital to have her heart checked. She looked so tiny and so vulnerable, naked apart from a hat soemone had given her and wires all over the place. They told me she was absolutley fine and put her back in the ambulance. Back at our local hospital I saw her without so many tubes and asked if I could hold her!

It suddenly dawned on me I'd wanted to breastfeed and she was now a whole day old so I asked if I could feed her. I was told that babies with Down's syndrome had trouble latching on. She didn't. she took to it straight away and I felt that painful but wonderful pull in my womb and I feel deeply, deeply in love with her, then and there, as she fed, and I realised that everything was going to be ok.

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Goodasgold · 09/03/2007 22:27

TC I'm really touched by your post...that pull on your womb...falling in love.
That's the way it's meant to be isn't it?

mainlymayday · 09/03/2007 22:28

Teecee - that's a lovely story.

Havepassportwilltravel · 09/03/2007 22:28

I can pinpoint it almost exactly : -

I was not one of those mothers who felt that all-consuming love at birth - I was too shocked, stunned and disbelieving that I had actually had a baby!!! - then breastfeeding started off most traumatically blah, blah, blah - (won't bore you with the details)
Then, that magical day, 6.30 am on an early May day and was breastfeeding DS, when he reached up with his little hand and stroked my cheek....... and right there, looking into those beautful, trusting, gentle eyes, I fell deeply, truly and completely in love. I will never, in this lifetime or the next, forget that moment.

trixymalixy · 09/03/2007 22:28

Teecee,your stry has me in floods of tears it's so lovely.

trixymalixy · 09/03/2007 22:29

story

can't see the keyboard for my tears!

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