Who's tired of............... - Page 2

[Missgrl]

Moving this to the ''support and advocacy'' forum for ya!

Also~T~Jude's Mama refer to the new signature rules about
dwindling down your sig to the new two line limit!

[momma7]

were you mommas referring to my story?i shared the story because i know what its like to want to blow off steam and i think that feeling needs to be validated.is this the topic being moved to support and advo.?wishing all you mommas a goodnight,cindy

[GiraffeLovin'Mama]

Yes!
My dd is 7 1/2 months and I keep getting, "Shes sleeping thru the night now, right?" and when I tell them she wakes often to nurse, I get, "oh, she should be sleeping more", I explain that bm is lighter than formula b/c it has what she needs and no extra fillers like formula, etc.....

[mommy2Aalicia]

I hear ya!! :

[Momof3Girlz]

Okay this is going to sound really bad but I don't have many friends that bottle feed. I just don't have a whole lot in common with them. Especially the ones who chose to bottlefeed and never gave bf'ing a chance. It disgusts me. Sorry to be so blunt.

[Sustainer]

Originally posted by candiland
I have a DS who's 8 1/2 months old and in the 100th percentile for height and weight. She was asking me why I didn't give DS bottles of water and juice yet (??!#^&**)? She told me that she started giving her formula-fed son bottles of water and juice at six months old, then said, "Well, geez, isn't all that breastmilk FATTENING? Maybe he's just thirsty sometimes..." ...Only in our fat-obsessed culture do we start thinking of putting healthy breastfed babies on diets

Candiland, that's exactly what my mother was like! She started REALLY pushing water and juice when my daughter was just 3 months old! That's exactly what she said, too: "I'm sure a lot of the time she's just thirsty, not hungry." She still believes what the pediatrician told her when my brother was a (breastfed) baby... that if she didn't start feeding him water, he would become so obese that he wouldn't be able to move.

Back to the original question, a lot of parents who put their babies in cribs in separate rooms to sleep at night just THINK the babies sleep through the night. The truth is that they wake up crying several times during the night, and the parents just don't hear them. It's the PARENTS who sleep through the night.

[Cakes]

Re: Who's tired of...............

Originally posted by Jude's Mama [/i]
I just visited a friend last night with newborn twins (adorable little boys!)
She is bottle feeding. A whole issue I won't even get into!!

Please be kind, understanding and sympathetic to moms of multiples. There is no way to compare the rigors of breastfeeding twins to breastfeeding a singleton. I've done both and highly recomend one at a time. The exhaustion is not double but quadruple due to not one but two or more babies waking thru the night and depleting your energy during the day. Imagine, at a minimum, 8, 10, 12, 2, 4, 6 AM and PM nursing two or more babies...............very, very difficult. They will inevitably wake at the same time or else your are nursing all night and day both scenarios are overwhelming.

Sorry to latch on to just one sentence in the thread but it is a personal issue and I feel that moms of multiples need our understanding in all areas. Two or more babies is overwhelming on so many fronts.

Julianne