bumbershoot
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I would bet a lot of money that you would be hard pressed to find a country other than America where breastfeeding is frowned on. I met a Muslim woman who was wearing one step below a burqa. She was on a train (in England) with her two children. She was as modest as you can be, but when her baby needed to be nursed, boom, she was nursed. In public, in front of men, that baby was fed. There was a very useful gap in the folds of the fabric that made it very easy.
FYI, totally totally TOTALLY normal. It doesn't mean he's horrible at anything! In fact, he could be helping you get more milk. Watch some videos of kittens and puppies nursing. They pull, they push, they knead. They are doing the natural and normal things. So when our human babies do the same things, they are being natural and normal, too. It hurts, and I don't think we should allow things to continue that are hurting too much, but it actually could be helping your supply.
And those sorts of things are why, after DS was a year old, I refused to nurse him in public anymore. He hated my shirts, he hated my bras, he would NOT deal with a cover of any kind, and I'm modest. So we would move away from the public eye.
DS nursed like a typical newborn until he was 3, and then kept on going for quite awhile after, and we had long conversations as he got older about it and what he was doing when he was doing these things...it was VERY cool and great info that most women don't get b/c they don't nurse that long (for instance, mine tasted like chocolate milk...which totally makes sense because I ate all the chocolate while he was nursing). I have info that many just don't have! And that stretching thing...I've experienced it, and I've experienced the rush of milk you can get IF you can perhaps modify it (don't nurse in distracty places, and help control how far he goes with the way you hold him) then deal with the modified amount of stretching away from you, and not just push baby away. Kneading of the tissues is also a BIG one for them to help get more of a letdown.
FYI, totally totally TOTALLY normal. It doesn't mean he's horrible at anything! In fact, he could be helping you get more milk. Watch some videos of kittens and puppies nursing. They pull, they push, they knead. They are doing the natural and normal things. So when our human babies do the same things, they are being natural and normal, too. It hurts, and I don't think we should allow things to continue that are hurting too much, but it actually could be helping your supply.
And those sorts of things are why, after DS was a year old, I refused to nurse him in public anymore. He hated my shirts, he hated my bras, he would NOT deal with a cover of any kind, and I'm modest. So we would move away from the public eye.
DS nursed like a typical newborn until he was 3, and then kept on going for quite awhile after, and we had long conversations as he got older about it and what he was doing when he was doing these things...it was VERY cool and great info that most women don't get b/c they don't nurse that long (for instance, mine tasted like chocolate milk...which totally makes sense because I ate all the chocolate while he was nursing). I have info that many just don't have! And that stretching thing...I've experienced it, and I've experienced the rush of milk you can get IF you can perhaps modify it (don't nurse in distracty places, and help control how far he goes with the way you hold him) then deal with the modified amount of stretching away from you, and not just push baby away. Kneading of the tissues is also a BIG one for them to help get more of a letdown.
