Motherhood: My Little Leech & Me || World Breastfeeding Week

So, today baby’s daddy told me that is breastfeeding week the WHO celebrates this from august 1st to august 7th, it is already the 6th so, I’m a little behind on the celebration but hey! Is a week to celebrate the BOOBS! Lol they are after all the ones that do all the job.

My baby was born September 25th of 2018 that makes him 1 year and 10 months, I had him by c-section and it took a whole 30 minutes from the moment they took him out of me until the moment I got to hold him for the first time, I didn’t know you can ask for early attachment that means as soon as the baby is out of you the doctor has to give him/her to you to breastfeed, I didn’t know that was an option so I didn’t ask, and I had to wait what to me seem like an eternity.

As you can see, I was a mess after the delivery, and in so much pain! I didn’t had the opportunity to do a natural delivery and even tho a natural delivery is known to hurt a lot, once the baby is out the pain goes away and you are you again, but with a c-section, that is not the case, you were cut open, your organs were mess around to make room for the baby to come out, and you were sedated, your body feels in pain and yet numb, besides the doctor tells you not to sit (not that I wanted to I felt like I couldn’t without opening my wound again) so you are not in a good position, even with all that you have to try and do what you need to do to help your newborn baby survive his first hours of life and that is feeding him. It is overwhelming.

I tried and the baby didn’t wanted to suck, I had my mom and my boyfriend’s mom there with me and the both of them combine breastfed 7 people they tried to help me with advice on how to put the baby and how to grab my boob, but the baby simply didn’t attached his mouth well enough, for the milk to come out he needs to suck and he didn’t want to do it, lazy little guy!

So, I went into a stress mode and if there is something that doesn’t help breastfeeding is stress, I needed him to eat, the doctor told me if he didn’t eat, he could go into a glucose coma, imagine!!! Imagine the feeling the pressure I was under, I all I really wanted to do was sleep I felt so tired but I couldn’t, a mom just can sleep if she knows her baby hasn’t eaten is like physical impossible!

That first day and night was from hell, the baby cry all night long I continue trying to feeding him but he simply wasn’t sucking at all, it was so freighting to think he could go sick because I was such a bad mom that didn’t know how to properly feed his baby, (that was what I was feeling the whole time), I think I manage to give him a few drops of my milk in all those times I tried for him to fed, cause the next day when the doctor came to check on us to give her approval for us to go home, she find him in perfect health.

Later that day when we got home, I finally felt more comfortable in my own bed with all mi pillows and after taking a shower I gave it another try.

Success!!

From the day he was born I was lucky to say he was exclusively breastfed on demand until he was 6 months old, but even if he was from then on, he was introduced to food, he also has kept the breastfeeding on demand going.

My Feelings on Breastfeeding on Demand

On demand means that whenever he wants boob time, he gets boob time, we don’t have a schedule for breastfeeding.

This is what doctors worldwide recommend, is the best for the baby, but it can be overwhelming for the mom, why? Well if you are like me a first time mom, you go from being completely owner of your time, free to do whatever you want whenever you want to, to being stuck with the baby full time, even if you have help, you can go too far or too long away, especially when they are breastfed exclusively like mine was, it seems like all you do is feed the baby all day long, I didn’t had time to take a shower longer than 5minutes, you can actually go to the bathroom to piss in peace you have to do it quickly cause the baby will cry if you are gone too long!

When the baby starts his first foods he may start to change his breastfeeding hours, mine didn’t, he hasn’t stop breastfeeding on demand, it takes more time between feedings but since he is a picky eater having his boobs to complement his food intake has help him a lot not too get to thin or to get sick at all. It has also help me keep up with the size 0 until now so YAY!

Continuing Breastfeeding Past the Year-Old Mark

Will I breastfeed until he is 4years old? I don’t know, is something I want to let him decide on his own, when he is ready to leave it, then it will be. Again, IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!! So, please don’t go leaving any comments about that or you will be muted =)

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Anyways this is my story on breastfeeding, are you a breastfeeding mom? Can you share your story with me? If you write a post about it or about motherhood in general, remember we have a community! created/hive-165757 please use it! And leave the link to your post in the comments so I can read it and curate it!

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