i was at playgroup yesterday with my 17mo old son. a woman who was sitting next to me chating started to nurse her 6 month old, under a blanket that the baby was not happy about and that made me cringe. but anyway she asked the other lady sitting my me if she nursed or bottle fed her newborn that had started to fuss, it turns out they both nurse
and that started a conversation about bfing. of course i told them how awsome it was that they were nurseing but when i mentioned that i was still nurseing my son at 17 months i got blank stares. one woman asked if i could still do that while pg and didnt my dr tell me to stop because of the new baby ( i am 14 weeks along) i told her no my midwife knows that unless you are at risk for preterm labor that nursing through a pg is just fine and that most dr dont know much at all about bfing. i also told them that the aap recs a year and the who 2 years, they were both floored at the thought of nurseing till 2 years old though one of them then confided that she had nursed her son till he was 18 months (now that i think about it she has a 2.5 year old and a newborn so she probly stoped when she got pg) then as they were talking about a stuborn diaper rash that the 6 mo old had i asked if she had tried bm on it, they looked at me like i had two heads. i then tried to explaine how the antiboties and white blood cells in bm will help heal most anything and how i have used it to clear up diaper rash, cuts and scrapes and pink eye.
it sounds better when i type it out, i think the conversation on my side was a bit rushed and shaky, but i get flustered when i talk about something i am pasionate about. and was amazed at how little that even the bfing moms knew about bfing and kind of felt like a bfing nut for giveing a info overload but i felt the need to inform. how do you know how much is too much bfing info and how do you make it sound polished when shareing info. i feel like they think im a bfing weirdo now but maybe i have helped them know more about the wonderful thing they are already doing. how do you share without becoming a bf weirdo, i kind of felt like a freak show bfing ensicapedia (sp?)
and that started a conversation about bfing. of course i told them how awsome it was that they were nurseing but when i mentioned that i was still nurseing my son at 17 months i got blank stares. one woman asked if i could still do that while pg and didnt my dr tell me to stop because of the new baby ( i am 14 weeks along) i told her no my midwife knows that unless you are at risk for preterm labor that nursing through a pg is just fine and that most dr dont know much at all about bfing. i also told them that the aap recs a year and the who 2 years, they were both floored at the thought of nurseing till 2 years old though one of them then confided that she had nursed her son till he was 18 months (now that i think about it she has a 2.5 year old and a newborn so she probly stoped when she got pg) then as they were talking about a stuborn diaper rash that the 6 mo old had i asked if she had tried bm on it, they looked at me like i had two heads. i then tried to explaine how the antiboties and white blood cells in bm will help heal most anything and how i have used it to clear up diaper rash, cuts and scrapes and pink eye.it sounds better when i type it out, i think the conversation on my side was a bit rushed and shaky, but i get flustered when i talk about something i am pasionate about. and was amazed at how little that even the bfing moms knew about bfing and kind of felt like a bfing nut for giveing a info overload but i felt the need to inform. how do you know how much is too much bfing info and how do you make it sound polished when shareing info. i feel like they think im a bfing weirdo now but maybe i have helped them know more about the wonderful thing they are already doing. how do you share without becoming a bf weirdo, i kind of felt like a freak show bfing ensicapedia (sp?)
You did WAY better than I would've. I'm so shy. If my family makes comments about how long I'm nursing this baby I'm going to tell them "my ped told me to nurse for at least two years." Such a cop out. I know they won't argue with an almighty doc. @@
but then this other mom did and even talked about how she nursed her dd (who is 2 now) while pg with the 4 mo old that she is nursing now
and that her dr was fine with it. though she said that she stoped midway because she had heard that if you nurse though to delivery that your body wont make colostrum for the new baby, i corected her on that point and told her that i had heard that lots of moms notice their nursing toddler getting chubby because the milk turns so rich again for the new baby. anyway it is crazy awesome the amount of bfing conversatin that i have been haveing the last few days and hearing someone else talk about nurseing through a pg made me feel much less weird in that very mainstream group of moms.
