Curious Question

[~EmsMum~]

Ive been sitting here thinking....

And I was just wondering, for those mums who have had to Bottlefeed due to breast feeding problems, when you had a second baby will you or have you decided just to put the next bubs on the bottle or will you give breastfeeding another go

[melfunction]

If I get any milk, then I'll definetly be breastfeeding, thats if I have another baby.

[Little Gorilla]

i will absolutely give breast feeding a go...I will arm myself with better info, know where to go with probs I have with breast feeding - really just set up the support I will need BEFORE i have the bub - I have to admit - I wasn't prepared for the probs I had first time round with trying to breast feeding.

also, I think being my second bub, hopefully I will be less stressed out and wouldn't be as overwhelmed as last time - so I might be able to relax a bit more and hopefully this will lead me to be more patient with breast feeding.

the reason I'm going to try so hard is because i know that breast milk is the best natural food for bub...especially for the first 6 months.

[Shazbutt]

I had supply probs with DD1, latching probs, and never mind the fact that i HATED it! Don't know why, its just not for me. I went for 3 weeks with it, then couldn't take any more. She was losing weight from not enough milk, and me stressing about doing it was stressing her out too.

With DD2 i went with formula from day dot. We were both much happier for it. :yes:

[KarniF00l]

Like Shazbutt i had supply problems. I think the max time i ever breast fed was for over a week. I tried with all four but all four times i had the same problem. The way i see it is, atleast they all got a bit of the good stuff (colostrum) to begin with.

[~EmsMum~]

ill be honest and say IF i ever have another bubs he/she will probably be put straight on to the bottle

[KarniF00l]

Mandy i hope you're talking about formula and not alca-ma-hole:p ;)

If you feel as though you really don't want to breast feed and you're dead set certain about it then thats your choice.. ppl don't breast feed for many reasons and finally after so many years others respect that decision that mothers make. Well most do.

but saying that.. i also think it is wise to do research as there is so much support around nowadays, and who knows you may learn something new.

[Cheekychops]

My friend just put her second straight on the bottle..... I had trouble bf with DS1 - not much milk, ended up comp feeding etc.... but tried again with DS2 , still not too much milk, but he fed heaps better and so maintained enough for him till 8 months :smiliedance: So it can be better / different each time.

[JorBai]

ill be honest and say IF i ever have another bubs he/she will probably be put straight on to the bottle

Mandy thats your choice and good on you for being honest!:thumbsup:

I will be definately trying to breastfeed. With Bailey I just assumed everyone could breastfeed but in hospital he wouldnt latch on and I got stressed so I expressed his milk for the first 2 weeks. With the next bub I will be seeing a Lactation Consultant during pregnancy. I am actually preparing for breast feeding now coz we are TTC #2.

:fingerscrossed: i can bf successfully next time.

[the_queen]

I had enormous challenges breastfeeding DD. It was heart-wrenching, emotionally draining, and physically exhausting. Putting her on formula was sad for me, I so badly wanted to breastfeed my baby.
DS has been breastfed since the day he was born, and any future children I have will also be breastfed :thumbsup:

[reAllytee]

I have to say if we do have another ( and im actually hoping we do now :eek: ) i would like to b/f but if i dont get milk again is the issue !
Hopefully different baby, different birth, different reaction in my body :D

[Jem]

I tried To bf DD, But it just didnt work for both of us, so i decided to ff.

whilst preg with ds1, i was so determined to bf, and when he was born, it just clicked for the both of us, and i was so pleased.

[~EmsMum~]

Mandy i hope you're talking about formula and not alca-ma-hole:p ;)

If you feel as though you really don't want to breast feed and you're dead set certain about it then thats your choice.. ppl don't breast feed for many reasons and finally after so many years others respect that decision that mothers make. Well most do.

but saying that.. i also think it is wise to do research as there is so much support around nowadays, and who knows you may learn something new.

:laughing: Ah you make me laugh lauren!! (referring to the alca ma hole)

[RedPanda]

I had enormous challenges breastfeeding DD. It was heart-wrenching, emotionally draining, and physically exhausting. Putting her on formula was sad for me, I so badly wanted to breastfeed my baby.

Me too, it's such a hard thing to decide when you've had your heart set on BF. Also, given that you're at such an emotionally fragile stage in your life, the sadness is magnified. I will definitely try to BF my next baby, and will not give up until it kills me:p !!

[caz]

I would probably have another go at breastfeeding, and i'd arm myself with better information than I did with DS.

[Ana Gram]

Now if i got pregnant again, I would have an abortion. But if I went insane and actually decided to keep it, I would do the colostrum thing and then to bottle.

[LittleBoysRock]

I had heaps of probs feeding my DS and I still havent decided whether to try BF with #2. I might have a doula at the birth and they can often help with BF afterwards, maybe with some support and encouragment things will be different?! :confused:

[angcaltam]

I kept trying with each one of my kids. DS1 only lasted 2 weeks, DS2 lasted 1 1/2 months but then DD only lasted 5 weeks. The bottle right from the start won't hurt as long as they have a happy and healthy mum the bubs don't care.:yes: :thumbsup:

I had a friend who had lots of problems with her DS1 and then when she had her DD she put her straight on the bottle.

[Ky]

I was unable to breastfeed my dd due to her having an extremely high hard palate and having very flat nipples, so I expressed for 6 weeks until I had no more milk.

When I fell pregnant with my ds I started going to La Leche League to find out what I could do to sucessfully breastfeed the next time.

Unfortunately, my ds was born with a severe tongue-tie and it wasn't picked up until he was 18 months old. So ... I was back to expressing until my supply ran out. This time, I felt a lot less guilty about putting bub on formula and even kept going to meeting with the La Leche ladies who didn't judge me in the least!

When I finally have another bub, I will try again knowing that my other two got a good start on expressed milk and are perfectly healty even though they were bottlefed bubs! If I am unsucessful again ... well, at least I tried!

[annsam]

I have ensured the hospital wrote in my booking form that I want LC assistance pretty much immediately. I am determined to successfully breastfeed this time as last time the issue was with DS not me so its unlikely to occur again.

[Angelmist♥]

When I was preg with DS1, I honestly thought every baby breastfed easily.PFFT not my babies!DS1 was put on formula while still in the hosp so I decided when
DS2 was born that he would go straight onto formula.He actually fed quite well though.I think because I'd already made up my mind to bottle-feed that when (out of curiosity) I did feed him I was alot more relaxed.:( didn't last long though, he was fully bottle-fed from 3 weeks.

With DD I was so consumed with breastfeeding, I learnt everything both online and off that I could about it.She wouldn't feed.I had to express for the first few days then use shields for the next 7 weeks.She then decided that formula tasted nicer and wouldn't go back to me at all.

If I were to ever have another baby, I think I'd lock myself in a room for the first 4 weeks and soley breastfeed!Work on the attachment, technique blah blah blah.

[blessedmummy]

yeah.. when i have another bub someday soon.. im in two minds..cause when i had my second daughter, i just felt strange and odd, and plus she used to drink all the time and i never had enough either! so, decided to ff her and she was much better for it and i was much better within myself too. (used to get shoved away in a room whenever i breastfed her at first, like it was rude or something... that was half the trouble!:()

[SJE]

I will try bf again next time though hire an electric breast pump - (needless to say after six weeks of a manual pump I had very strong hands)

Also I will try to let labour occur naturally instead of being induced if I can help it. Apparently it affects the milk????. Also no visitors for 24 hours

I am also planning some sort of treatment to extend my feeding equipment so they are six inches long like the woman in the instruction video.:mad:

[Mum2Lucas]

i will definitely breastfeed if i can and hopefully beyond 1 year with the next one. as with Seejay Elle i too would prefer not to be induced and i think i want to be the only one to hold my baby for a few days.

[sharvs]

I breastfed DS for 3 weeks. When I have another baby I will definately be trying everything to make breastfeeding work for both of us. There are a few reasons it didnt work with DS but I doubt I will experience the same problems again. The only difference if that it doesnt work the second time around, I WONT be beating myself up about it like I did with DS :yes:

[Mrs Potts]

With DS I tried for 5 days to get him to feed and he wouldn't have a bar of it. It got to the point where I didn't want to hold my baby because it would mean trying to feed which in turn meant tears and stress for both of us. He was put on the bottle before we left hospital.

With DD I was adamant that I wasn't going to put myself through the same stress a second time. I was prepared to try for a couple of days and if it wasn't working it would be onto the bottle.

DD latched on perfectly from the first go, and did brilliantly for 2 days. On day 3 she wanted no further part of the process and I made the bottle decision once more.

If we were to have a third baby I think I would be quite likely to bypass the stress and go straight for the bottle. With my record, i don't like the odds of another baby doing the job properly.

[RedPanda]

I am also planning some sort of treatment to extend my feeding equipment so they are six inches long like the woman in the instruction video.:mad:

:eek: So true! When I watched that video in hospital I was stunned!

[BlessedWithBlue]

I had trouble with ds#1 as my milk never came in properly and he wasn't latching properly so we formula fed. The nurses would tape a tube to my boob and try to get him to attach but he just wouldn't i ended up soaked through at every single feed because the formula they were putting through the tube was just spilling out of df's mouth and onto me :( With ds#2 i had plenty of milk but a baby who had problems with latching again!! I have very flat nipples so it just wasn't working for us :( Once we got home it was straight onto formula. This time i will save myself the guilt and go straight for formula.