did your mama nurse you? - Page 4

[mapraelm]

My mom says she nursed me for 9 mos but I also got a bottle of formula for the night feed from my dad....
she still blames me for weaning at 9 months but I bet it was a nursing strike. I was weaned straight to a cup.
this was 1971, and she was a smoker, too....

mil says she didn't nurse her first cause she ate some chocolate in the hospital (~1953) and they said that was bad for her milk. She didn't even consider it with the other 4 But she hasn't ever given me a hard time about my "wierdness" -- I nursed ds#1 til 3.25 years, ds #2 still going at 22mo.

[rocketmom]

mapraelm- LOL What's wrong with chocolate milk? Yummy stuff if you ask me.

[mapraelm]

Originally posted by rocketmom
LOL What's wrong with chocolate milk? Yummy stuff if you ask me.

My sentiments exactly! Nice thing, my mil kind of laughs about it now, but she did get a little nervous when she saw me eat chocolate when ds#1 was a newborn! The doctors told her she couldn't nurse her baby if she ate chocolate. Go figure!:

[3kaw]

My mother nursed me (72) for about 2 weeks. I started at 6lbs 2 oz, and went down to about 5, the dr's told her she didn't have enough milk. they insisted she put me on formula. No support at that time to correct the problem.
So of course she did not even try with my younger sis (76).
She is extremely supportive now!

Dh mother 'says' she nursed the first few (of 6) (55,56,58,60, and twins in 70), till she got a "really bad" case of mastis, inwhich she could not nurse because blood was coming out in her milk Dh was never nursed, and thinks that 3 is too old to nurse. We'll see when we get there

[artemesia]

My mother nursed me (1971) and my two sisters (1974 &1979) well into our second year. She also worked full time so she would hand express milk and come nurse us on her lunch hour. I can't imagine that she got any support whatsoever from my grandmother (who babysat us). She did tell me that we occaisionally recieved formula while she was at work when there wasn't enough expressed milk.

[audrey]

Also put on cow's milk

My mom did not nurse me at all I was put at about 3 weeks on a dilution of cow's milk because before with the formula I had colic. My mom could not see herself with a baby on her breast she needed her feminity back and even today I am breastfeeding my baby and there isn't one day where she says that I should give a bottle or now that I sould introduce solid. When she sees me pumping or with my nursing bras she also passes comments that there is no way she could have done that. Anyway too bad for me but I definetly do not listen to her.

[Greenfrogs]

My mother breastfeed both my sister (born 1970) and me (born 1968) until we were a little over 9 months. Both of us self weaned.

My grandmother breastfeed by mother (born 1948) and my aunt (born 1944) until they were a year old. To quote my grandmother "I was to lazy to warm those silly bottles".

[lalain]

I was born in 1967 and was nursed for about 9 months. When I had DS and was in the hospital wondering where the heck the lactation consultant was (it took more than 24 hours for one to come), she reflected on how little help she had back then and how much there is now. I can only hope our daughters will have it better.

The funniest thing I think about my early nutrition was the introduction of solids. My mom was great about recording stuff in my baby book and gave it to me when I had DS (it's one of my most treasured posessions). I think she had me on cereal at a week and all sorts of different solids in the first couple of months... there's even a note about me liking CHEETOS at six months. CHEETOS. Good grief. I'm amazed I was breastfed... she was the only one of her sisters/friends to do so. She also sometimes reflects on how different is is for me that I'm able to BFIP as she remembers being shut away the whole time she was nursing. I don't know if she realizes it ain't always easy and accepted for me either, but I do recognize what a time it must have been for her and how great she was to do it.

Thanks mom

[nataly]

nope!

Was born in 80. My brother was born in 76. Neither of us were breastfed. My mom is not supportive much about me bf'ing my dd.

Not that all ff are bad but my mom was the selfish kind of mom...you know, the kind that doesn't quit smoking throughout her entire pregnancies, smoked with us in the car, etc. bleh.

I'm just glad I'm going to be better! I plan on extended bf my dd.

[mom at home]

My mom nursed each my 2 sisters and me for 6 months. That was really good for the early 60's, she says, and I guess it was. I don't think any of her friends nursed their babies. She thinks it's great that my sister and I have nursed our toddlers and is very pro-extended breastfeeding.

Alison

[Greenfrogs]

I was talking to my aunt yesterday about bfing etc and she told me a funny story about taking a train with my grandmother and my mother back in 1948. The conductor kept asking my grandmother if she needed a bottle to feed my then 6 month old bf mother. My grandmother kept replying very politely "no thankyou, I have everything I need". The conductor kept staring at my grandmother as if she was starving her baby. I guess the conductor did not understand that breast are much easier to carry on a long trip than bottle .

[Parthenia]

I was nursed for about 3 or 4 months, until my mom went to work.

But here's a funny nursing story. My dad has 9 brothers and sisters. All were born at home, all breastfed til they ate solids regularly (This is 20's-40's in rural Tennessee). At one of my cousin's wedding a couple of summers ago, one of my aunts came up to me while I was nursing dd (a little over a year). My aunt's nickname is "Tit", and we still call her that, even though she's well into her 60's. I kid you not. She sat down with me and asked if I knew how she got the nickname.
"Well" she said, "Jo-Jo (my grandmother) couldn't get me to wean, so everyone called me 'Tit'. then she got pregnant with my sister, and I didn't like the taste anymore. But I was almost 3 by then!" Then she turned to dd and said, "You keep it up, it's good for you!"

[lisab]

1972

I was b'fed for about 6 months. My mom was really gung-ho on breastfeeding (which, as I understand, was pretty rare then), however she didn't have much help getting started. I think I probably had a bad latch, because all she ever recounts is how bad her nipples hurt!

My sister, born in 1974, wasn't b'fed at all.

[treehuginhippie]

Born in '79 and nursed for 18 months. I was the baby of four. Mom says the docs told her that bf was not healthy and that formula was best. : She decided that that info was bs. A week after I was weaned, I was put in the hospital for severe dehydration and some stomach issues. Mom is sure it was connected to weaning. She thinks if I had weaned earlier I would have been a lot worse off. I'm surprised that she bf'd that long - she is usually pretty mainstream.

[2J'smom]

I was nursed 10 mnths (70) and my brother 9 mnths (67). Mom says she didn't know anyone who nursed. People looked at her like she was some kind of "hippy" lol. MIL nursed all three 71,69,66 for 7 months +. My grandma nursed, can't understand how you couldn't - after all that's why we have 'em she says. She was so happy to see I was nursing ds#1 more than 1 year as my sil didn't nurse a single day (she also had 2 scheduled c secs etc etc) I had two home births so had little support from that side. However mil very supportive- later found out DH's greatgrandmother was a midwife.
ds#1 nursed 20 months and ds#2 going strong at 11 weeks.
Funny story- We were shopping and ds#1 sees newborn in a stoller with a propped bottle and asks baby's mother," What's that in your baby's mouth"? Mother replies milk. DS#1 says my baby brother gets milk from my mommies num nums .. I just smiled and carried on.

[Mallory]

I was nursed for three or four months until I started to lose weight. My mom was pregnant, and had no milk. My brother and I are 11 months apart. : I don't know how she did it. He was nursed for a while then we got goats to give him goat milk I liked the goats much more than the baby brother.

[Jenmom]

well I have 3 sisters...

I was nursed 9 months and it was shorter with each child. The youngest was only nursed about 4 months. Which, might explain a lot, the youngest has issues. Abimommy is one of my sisters just FYI.

[madison]

Nope, never nursed.

I was born at 30 weeks gestation, a twin (my twin died at 6 days old) weighing 3 lbs 1 oz.

I was force-fed 3 oz of formula every three hours on a rigid schedule. I was in an incubator for six weeks in isolation and was held only for feedings.

I had two surgeries (at 4 weeks and 4 months) without pain medications, because "infants don't feel pain like adults and older children".

I was put onto cereal at 3 weeks, when I weighed a whole 4 lbs. My mom HELD ME for the first time on the 4th of July - I was born May 31! Poor me

By the time I was 12 months, I was so FAT, they put me on a skim milk diet!!!

I'm so horrified at how LITTLE my mother & father knew about pregnancy & birth & childrearing! <shudder>

Darn, I feel lucky to be here!

My younger sisters were never nursed. My sister with kids nursed my nephew for 3 weeks and my neice for 2 days

They think I'm a freak for saying I'm going to nurse as long as the baby darn well pleases!

[aishy]

I nursed till I was 3.5 Tandem for about a year with my younger brother. When mom was pregnant I told her to buy him bottles when we were at the grocery store. Apparently I was SO jealous of my new brother.

I was born in 1979. My moms only "experience" with nursing before she had my older brother in 77 was her sister-in-law, i think. And LLL meetings. My granny gave birth at home, and co-slept, but never breastfed. She used to ask mom "Are you stillf feeding those children" When the twins were toddlers, lol. She was a midwife in Ireland before getting married and having her (7 total) children. She is a fun and interesting mom ; )

aisling

[MinervaZ]

I was born in '68 - Mom was a serious hippie, and she nursed me for 2 1/2 years.

I wish I was able to do the same, but I've been plagued by supply problems with both babies. I've tried EVERYTHING (fenugreek, domperidone, pumping, many consultants), and it just gets me depressed. My youngest is 6 months and he's already starting to wean.