Sharing the small BF victories that help keep you going

[BarrelOfMonkeys]

As per the title really, starting a thread to share those small things that help keep you going...

Kicking off with one from me, we've reached BabyMonkeys 1 week birthday and managed to keep her breast-fed thus far despite her refusing the breast for the first 4-5 days and being syringe fed expressed breast milk. We've now done 2 days of 'proper' breast feeding thanks to nipple shields. Colostrum delivered: check. Mature milk: on way.

She also slept for four hours after her 5am feed - heaven!! Small steps in the right direction.

Anyone else got any good news to share? Would love to hear encouraging stories to keep up morale (and distract from the pain in my nips!)

I had the slowest gaining excl bf baby in the world (it felt like). At 6 months old she weighed less than 10lb. I felt extremely inadequate and blamed my supply.

But

She still feeds at 18 months and she loves it. I'm pretty proud of my breasts now.

yay for little carrot

finally getting rid of thrush at six months and realising that my boobs didn't have to be sore all the time and that it was actually a really nice thing to BF.

Figuring out (thanks to MN help) that expressing was the root cause of my recurrent blocked ducts.

The sight of chubby thighs and dimpled cheeks and thinking....."I did that"

Knowing, second time around and finding it harder than forst time, that things will get better.

Well done vlc, I remember reading your posts And well done you too Daisy

Well done to you too, ladies!

Great thread, OP.

daisy - i do that with cheeks and legs!!

when they smile on the boob!

DS2 (11 weeks) did that for the first time tonight . I can almost forgive him his crappy latch and suction effect as he latches onto the aerole instead of nipple

8 or 9 bouts of internal breast thrush mastitis x 1, cracked nipples x 1 ~ helped really quickly by Silverettes. Was planning on giving up at 18 months...my plan, but obviously not Dd's plan...almost 2.1 and still demanding 'boobies'

LOL! I've just heard her blowing off in her sleep! made me chuckle and had to share!

Its really encouraging to hear all your stories! Thanks for sharing. Struggling on here although am now having to do formula top-ups (on advice of MW and lactation consultant) but hopefully we'll get there!