Hey! I’m Casey and I blog with my best friend, Sarah, at Real Suburbia. A 26 year old, stay at home, part time single mom. Married for 5 years to a man who works out of town most of the year, mother to an almost two year old named Wilder. I breastfed and pumped for 14 months.
My milk came in on Christmas Eve and I was miserable. I wanted to stop. I was so miserable and scared (yet again) of mastitis, that my mom ran to the store to buy me a pump. I was over producing. When I fed him, he would choke at the pressure and I knew I had to start pumping. I would feed on one side, which was perfect for him and then pump the other, switching every 2-3 hours when he would feed again. When he was 3 weeks old my husband finally got to feed him a bottle. He took it like a champ and nipple confusion was never an issue.
Love reading the breastfeeding diaries, thank you for sharing your story. I too, am struggling to lose weight while breastfeeding my six month old. Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I say I'm nursing and haven't lost any weight. But I know nursing is best for baby so I'll worry about my weight after-while still eating healthy now. He is such a cutie! 🙂
Thank you for sharing! I also have been eating a lot because I keep hearing it is important to keep supply up but am worried about how that will affect my weight. And community is the most important thing. I'm not sure I would have even started breastfeeding if it wasn't for the Facebook group Milky Mommys.
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I love reading other mother's stories of breastfeeding. I'm blessed to still be nursing my little girl. Best decision I ever made but definitely not always easy.