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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Your Body Is Telling You That You Aren’t Supposed To Be Breastfeeding.”
“Your body is telling you that you aren’t supposed to be breastfeeding.” -OB to mother after her third incidence of mastitis at a postpartum visit.
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My inlaws were completely judgemental (and confused) when they learned I was still breastfeeding my 13 month old. They repeatedly blamed the fact that he woke up at night (actually due to gas pains, true hunger, and simple age) on the continued breastfeeding and lectured me repeatedly on how I was ruining his nights/ruining his sleeping habits because I wouldn’t wean him. They were thrilled when my milk dried up while he couldn’t nurse during a sinus infection. (switching to bottle did NOT help with the sleep situation.)
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stacy Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 6:24 am (Quote)
Jessica, I can relate to the comments about waking at night. I had a nurse tell me it was my fault that my 8 month old who weighed all of 11 lbs, was still waking up at night. Her comment “If you set an alarm clock for 2am for a week and got up and ate cookies by the end of the week you wouldn’t need the alarm. Your body would wake you up for the cookies. That is what is happening with your daughter. Just let her cry for a few nights until she realizes she isn’t getting “cookies” and she will start sleeping through the night.
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Jessica Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 2:50 pm (Quote)
8 months and 11 lbs? Such a little one! and they wanted you to skip a feeding??? Bad doctor! I feel sorry for you! At least my peds doc, while not thrilled at me for exclusive breastfeeding until 7 months, always was honest about his sleeping habits, they weren’t the ‘average’ for his age, but they were well within normal! Of course my grandmother in law doesn’t care what any doctor that WE’VE selected has to say, after all, SHE’S had 3 kids and helped to raise 3 grandkids as well. Everytime I try to use the doctor’s words/assurance to counter gmil she just shakes her head “I’d like to meet the doctor who would say THAT” or “where did you find that doctor?” Of course my inlaws are the type of people who define their life by the sicknesses, illnesses, and disabilities, that I have a completely ‘normal’ kid after a seriously rocky start is completely foreign and probably traumatizes them greatly!
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Peggy Zherdev had this to say,
Dec 1, 2009 @ 3:23 am (Quote)
Wow…and doctors go to medical school for what? OB/GYNs really need to study more about breastfeeding. Something is terribly wrong here!
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I’ve had mastitis twice, and both times, I’ve had mega sugar-cravings prior, which seem like indicators of an imbalance in my body. STILL breastfeeding my eight-monther!! AND I’m SO grateful for my health care goddesses, who’ve been nothing but super-supportive of my breastfeeding during every little trial. Yes, I, too just had to bottle feed for a few days with my son’s sinus infection. Fortunately we have a pump, so he continued the breast milk. Now I’m thinking of pumping during the teething times when he really wants something to chew on!! (bottle being better than my nipples for chew-toy, that is) Good energy to persevering Mamas!!
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Or maybe, it’s telling you to
*drink more water.
*get more rest and not try to overdo as so many women do with the pressure to be supermom.
*stop wearing underwire bras.
*do one sided block feedings because you have oversupply.
I fell prey to all of the above, and yeah, I got mastitis multiple times. I still breastfed five kids, minimum of ten months (lost milk due to pregnancy), maximum of age 3.
Comments like THIS are why breastfeeding supporters often feel we are banging our heads against a brick wall. Even when a mom wants to breastfeed, and her in-laws/relatives/husband/mom’s club haven’t talked her out of it, the medical professionals step in to make sure she stops doing THAT as soon as possible!
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Tam Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm Tam(Quote)
My MIL and OB both insisted my mastitis was because my body “was finished with the business (of breastfeeding)”. My mother insisted it was because I was dehydrated and NOT Super Mom. She then pointed out my lack of cape and brought me a heating pad.
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