Comments on: “Oh, Your Baby Is Too Big To Breastfeed…”

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:00:49 +0000

My son was 10lbs 7ozs at birth and I have been breastfeeding him since the day he was born, which was 22 months ago!

By: Michelle Potter

Michelle Potter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:41:12 +0000

I just wanted to say way to go! Sounds like you worked really hard to give your baby the best!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:30:49 +0000

My 9lb 1oz at birth baby spent the first 32 days in the NICU, and I pumped so he would have breast milk. It took 3 weeks after he came home to switch from bottled breastmilk to exclusively nursing. My body is so ridiculously sensitive to tiny changes, however, so it was really hard (even with fenugreek sp? and mother’s milk tea) to eat and drink enough to keep my milk supply up, especially when baby wanted to nurse 24-26 times a day for the first 7 months. I kept at it, but, regardless of what we did, ended up with an average of 1 formula bottle a day (usually around 3 am when I was completely dry). Just because you might be in a situation where you legitimately CAN’T produce enough for your hungry baby (and I know its really rare), doesn’t mean you still can’t breastfeed as much as possible! 24 ‘breasts’ and 1 bottle is a lot better than 24 bottles a day!

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:37:17 +0000

One nurse tried to tell me that just because my baby wouldn’t take my breast I couldn’t breast feed (my oldest was NICU’d for 2 weeks at birth and couldn’t eat for the first 5 days because of a hole in her lung and I couldn’t be at the NICU as much as I would have liked because my ex was a douche). I told them to screw off and pumped for the first couple of months. I had so much extra milk that I had to freeze it and even when I stopped pumping, I still had breast milk for her for another 2 months!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:54:53 +0000

thats horrible!!!!! a baby knows when shes full and I would never prevent my baby from having food!

By: Micah

Micah — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:32:31 +0000

7.5 lbs is tiny!!

By: Knitted in the Womb

Knitted in the Womb — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:03:29 +0000

I had a client birth an 11 lb 10 oz baby. At 4 months old he was 25 lbs, and she would bring him into church in a stroller. Exclusively breastfed.

By: Michelle Potter

Michelle Potter — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:50:28 +0000

No, I think you have it backwards. If you have perfectly B-cup breasts with exactly the right nipples, and your exactly seven pound baby was born on the second Tuesday following a new moon during El Nino, that is the ONE time you CAN breastfeed. Anything else is just being reckless and selfish, putting your own desire to breastfeed above your poor, poor baby’s desire to eat formula from a bottle (and your husband’s desire to get up in the middle of the night to feed said formula to the baby for you — yeah right!)

By: DLN

DLN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:41:56 +0000

I had a 7.5 pounder and was told the same thing. You really can’t win.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:59:33 +0000

Yes, she is. 1. – because it’s just idiotic. 2. – Why spend money on formula – when BF is free? This is a military family & any pennies they can save- they will!