[blparent] sns nursing system

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I like the way you said it, Jan.  When it came to nursing, I eventually also 
had to decide that what my daughter needed was more important than what I 
wanted.  She nursed once in a while toward the end, but I pumped a lot. 
Eventually, when she was nine or ten months old, I think there were just too 
many things going on that she wanted to see and do, and nursing took too 
long, so I was pumping exclusively after that till she was a year old.  But 
we still snuggle a lot, and laugh together, and so bonding is an ongoing 
process.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "jan wright" <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:22 AM
To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] sns nursing system

> My experience mirrored Jo Elizabeth's. Even when I had a nipple
> shield, which helped the small tube to stay in place, it still moved
> and neither Azaan or I were happy. We would try fifteen or twenty
> minutes to no great result. When the Lactation consultant was with me,
> we had a better result, but she could not be with me the whole time.
> I can tell you, Azaan is almost 6mo (will be on the 27th) and nursing
> from the breast just didn't work for him. I really wanted it too, but
> I eventually had to make a choice: what I wanted ... ... or what he
> wanted. I could have continued to try a bit harder, but that just led
> to frustration on his part. So, I pump and put it into the bottle: but
> find all different ways of bonding.
> And, you might be able to pump a bit, also. I don't know. If you are
> going to adopt soon, you might save some breastmilk from your nursing
> time with Dawson.
> Just thoughts.
>
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