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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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yummybunnymummy · 11/03/2007 12:33

Hi, Not sure where to start though as have so many wonderful moments but had to add my lastest one!

I still feed both my sons (DS1 is 2.75yrs and DS2 is 15mths), when we're at home they often feed together and we all snuggle on the sofa, one each side, lovely, one of the perfect, quiet, loving moments of the day. I start to feel relaxed and serene and like the mummy I aspire to be and suddenly on both boobs I hear raspberries being blown against them, in unison!! Had me in stiches for ages. I love my boys!!

yelnats · 21/09/2007 22:25

Hi just remembered about this thread and wanted to bring it back for anyone struggling to keep going out there.

Heathcliffscathy · 21/09/2007 22:27

seeing a doe feeding a fawn in richmond park in dappled sunlight with ds asleep in the back (in the days when i had to drive round and round and round). i was moved to tears it was so beautiful.

rainbow83 · 22/09/2007 17:09

wow.. this thread has reminded me why i'm still feeding dd2 at 8 months despite the exhaustion!

Favourite moments:

when she is full of milk and then throws her head back in immense satisfaction, arches her back as far as she can go and lets out a gentle snore

when she waves her fat little hand in front of me so I can hold it whilst she feeds, she pauses as i wrap her fingers around mine, and then continues feeding.

middle of night, me and her under the covers, her body nestled next to mine as she latches on and drinks

FrannyandZooey · 22/09/2007 17:14

We taught ds a mixture of standard sign language and our own made up ones, and he knew how to kiss his pursed fingers and then fan them out - like a French chef saying "delicious", you know

he looked up at me coyly one day while breastfeeding and made the sign

wonderful

FrannyandZooey · 22/09/2007 17:16

oh I am on this thread already and this was a new favourite memory!

LOL so many happy times

treacletart · 22/09/2007 17:30

Last week when after 6 weeks of agony I finally began to feed pain free. DD looked up and my nipple fall out of her mouth when she smiled at me

ArtistFormerlyKnownAsSOH · 22/09/2007 17:36

I will never, ever forget the first time I fed dd. I had planned a home water birth, feeding straight afterwards, skin to skin etc and ended up with a nightmare 24hr labour, 3 failed ventouse attempts, episiotomy and eventual em cs. We were separated for a time after the birth and when they brought her back she was sleepy and uninterested and remained so for the rest of the evening. At 3am in the morning I lay topless in bed with her snuggled up to my belly and whispered lots of things to her that only she would ever hear, made her many, many promises and swore silently to myself that I would be the best Mum I could to her. She opened her eyes, looked at me right in the eye for the first time as I offered up those silent promises and latched on. At that moment my role as Mathilda's Mum began and I cried like I never have before.

Now she is 19 weeks old breastfeeding gets better and better. I love the way she strokes the boob she is feeding from in rhythm with her sucking, when she looks up at me while feeding and grins so much she can't stay latched on and I cherish every night feed when she wakes me up by wriggling over and patting my chest and smiling at me. And those contented sighs and coos make me melt.

I am so, so proud that after a rough start we both stuck at it. Feeding my tiny little girl is the best part of any day.

Lizzer · 22/09/2007 17:39

Ahh, lovely thread girls -its been 7 yrs since i stopped b/feeding dd, so memories have nearly all gone even though we lasted a year. Now due in dec and all I keep thinking about is the pain of the first few weeks and the constant feeding. Now, finally thanks to you lot, I can begin to remember some of the worthwhile wonderful times with baby on the breast...

I think ALL new b/feeding mothers should read this thread!!!

homerton · 22/09/2007 17:59

This is the best thread I have ever read on mumsnet. Was about to wean dd who is 8 months as the night feeds are all a bit much etc. but reading so many lovely memeories have persuaded me otherwise and am going to keep going.

vole3 · 22/09/2007 20:17

I love it when DS lets the nipple slip out of his mouth with a satisfied milky plop and then smiles as he drifts off to sleep. I would try and catch it on the camcorder, but he probably would not thank me if it was to end up on Youtube thanks to his mates when he's older.

Amethyst8 · 22/09/2007 20:29

When DD had a horrible cold at about 6 weeks and I was really worried about her because she was so young. She got SO much comfort from breastfeeding during that cold. I sat all day and let her feed when she wanted and sleep when she wanted. I felt so good that I was able to feed her like that and not be forcing a great big teat and formula into her when she was feeling ill and probably wouldnt feel like it anyway.

Also at night when she falls asleep and cuddles up after finishing feeding. I sit for another half an hour with her sometimes just enjoying being so close to her.

tutter · 22/09/2007 20:36

only read as far as franny's post

oooh franny i feel bad now. had no idea you'd stoped. wouldn't have flaunted my milkiness in your face (so to speak) had i known. sorry

am btw that your ds would look at you while feeding. the way i was shown (and therefore the way both dsses have fed) is more wrapped around me, iykwim, so are looking at my side (exciting) rather than up at me. wonder if i could change the way i hold him...

tutter · 22/09/2007 20:38

oh, now realised that it'#s an old thread maybe not so bad then...?

pampam · 22/09/2007 21:28

this thread has made me cry buckets....
I loved it when she was really tiny and she would feed and then suddenly have a look of pure bliss and fall asleep. The first time it happened i thought she'd fallen unconscious! and it really scared me. DD is 16 months now and last week we were having a sleepy afternoon feed and she stopped to blow me a kiss, it was just so wonderful.

daisyandbabybootoo · 22/09/2007 21:32

strangely enough, I've just had the best BF with my nearly 16 weeks old daughter after 4 months of problem after problem including recurrent blocked ducts and mastitis....

....and it was in the car at the side of the A64 near York ...perfect latch, absolutely pain free, she stayed latched on then came off herself (rather than me taking her off cos she's nibbling my nipple really hard) with a milky smile and a sigh of contentment.

I think I'm going to try feeding her in the front seat of the car from here on in, LOL.

moondog · 22/09/2007 23:28

What a lovely thread.
I love Jenkey's description of the milk flowing from her heart to her baby's.

Such beautiful descriptions.

I loved the way little ds would fall off the breast lolling and grunting slighlty,pink of cheek with milk around his lips.We used to call him Milky Mouth.

FrannyandZooey · 22/09/2007 23:31

Oh Tutter it is fine! I was gutted for a long time but I am just pleased for you that it is going so well

ds didn't look at me for ages, certainly not when he was tiny

this was later on

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Jenkeywoo · 22/09/2007 23:39

Thank you for resurrecting this thread - I'm still breastfeeding dd who is now 18 months old and at the moment up all night every night demanding feeds left right and centre. I have to say there are times when I wish she wasn't so demanding but reading through this thread has helped me to concentrate on the good bits again. At the moment my favourite bits are when she points at my norks and says 'me NEED that' - also when I'm lying in bed in the mornings and she's sat up next to me and suddenly leans over and latches on without asking - the cheek! but it is funny.

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kiskidee · 22/09/2007 23:41

these days it is sitting with dd latched on one side and one of her dollies on the other.

i have a nice picture of bf my rather large 2yo on a steam train somewhere between dartmouth and paignton. when i saw that picture which dh took, it seemed like a perfect moment.

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Jenkeywoo · 22/09/2007 23:43

kiskidee - we were on that steam train on holiday last week! and I breastfed my dd too. In fact I breastfed her in practically every public attraction in the Brixham area..

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determination · 22/09/2007 23:52

think i may have just had mine. DD2 wakened and was crying, i was downstairs. Wheni arrived into the bedroom and lay down next to her (in Dh and my bed) she grinned then squashed her face into my breast whilst grunting - looked at me and grinned again before latching and nursing to sleep again. Oh how amazing is it to BF? I love it so much..

MrsJohnCusack · 22/09/2007 23:53

oh look, there I am on here when DS was 2 days old!
he is now 6 months and still feeding like crazy, but with lots of great big smiles now(and 2 teeth)

moondog · 22/09/2007 23:53

MrsJC,how lovely to look back eh?

MrsJohnCusack · 23/09/2007 00:03

it is
I feel quite tearful. Because he isn't a little baby any more (and because he slept better then than he does now!)

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