Well here is my second post.. I have always wondered what it would be like when I would have a baby. What would i feed them? Would I do formula? Should i breastfeed? Well as you can guess I ultimately chose breastfeeding. Funny thing is that my boyfriend Casey and i talked about it way before we were having Penelope.
When i was about to give birth all those thoughts went through my head, “is she going to latch onto me?”, “Am i going to produce enough for her?”. It made me worry a lot, I didn’t want to go straight into bottle feeding. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against formula at all! there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to how a mother feels most comfortable feeding her child.
For me, I was one of the luckier ones and Penelope latched on right when she came out. It was not at all what i thought it was going to be, the first few times i fed her when we were in the hospital it was weird. Just trying to get used to things and figuring out how to hold her and make sure she was latching onto enough of my nipple (it was not a good time when she missed my nipple, even to this day). In the first week before my milk came in I was not producing enough colostrum, but I had no idea, so Penelope was just crying and crying for the first two nights we got home. In my mind i thought “well babies cry, she is not used to this new environment”, but in reality she was just hungry. Thanks to my mom she helped me figure out the problem and immediately grabbed the formula samples i had gotten in the mail and made a bottle.
I used a formula substitute for a few days until my milk came in and it was good she was getting her food from both bottle and boob, and she was back to being a happy baby. It was definitely not ideal for me to use formula at all but it helped my little girl get what she needed at the time. Today we are all boob, and eating like crazy. Penelope is happy and healthy but now because she is all boob when i have to unfreeze milk and give it to her in a bottle, well she doesn’t like it very much. In fact it takes me a while to get her to want to drink it. (very annoying, but understandable)
Before i get into anything more about breastfeeding and how it is annoying to have to wear the wraps while out in public just to feed my sweet little one. If you are a mom who is breastfeeding and wanna find good ways to get your milk supplies up i will put a recipe in here that has helped me a lot and and some other things that you can get at like Walmart that helps as well.
- Boobie smoothie
- 1 frozen banana
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1 tablespoon chocolate milk mix
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter (or peanut butter powder)
Another thing that is great to use is Mothers milk tea. For on the go they make snacks like cookies! The cookies i bought you can get off amazon or at Walmart and they are called Milkmakers Lactation cookie bites. They have different kinds like, oatmeal chocolate chip, Chocolate salted caramel, and oatmeal raisin.
All right so the last thing i want to talk about in this topic is the wraps. I absolutely hate having to put that wrap on while i am in public and need to feed my child. For one its hot out and having Penelope under one of those makes everything SO much hotter for the both of us, and second i couldn’t figure it out the first few times i used it. My mom laughed at me because i was struggling so much while using it. It looked as if i was wearing a pillow case. If some people in this world would just keep their mouths shut I would feel so much better not using it at all. I never understood why people get so offended by a women feeding her child.
Anyway i don’t want to make this post to long so ill do a Breastfeeding part 2 soon. If you wanna keep reading and haven’t already, subscribe below! 😁 Also if you have any tips or anything about breastfeeding or bottle feeding put it in the comments because i’d like to hear them!
Figuring It Out 