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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
TexLex, did you deliver at Women's? If so I will watch them like a hawk. I wasn't expecting that problem, since most non-BFers bitch about the pro-BF attitude of the nurses.
OK, so now with the advice that everyone has given me, at what point do you start pumping, assuming a decent latch within the first week or so? When do you start building your freezer/referigerator stash and what's the best way to go about that?
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I literally had to YELL at the nurse in the hospital to not give my child a bottle--of course I made sure everyone in there knew I was a lawyer.....its funny how they suddenly stopped telling me what I should do and began asking what I wanted. That is the ONLY place i volunteer my status as a member of the bar.
Build your stash as early and fully as possible. My D had a problem with her latching that we thought we corrected and didn't discover that it wasn't properly corrected (even though she was guzzling) until her first tooth came in...tlk about razor mouth...But I was able to pump and with my stash I kept her on BM. And the small packs - 1/2 ounce, single ounce, are great not only for topping off, but also to make cereal etc when you introduce solids...
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to answer another question - with my first I only had 6 weeks and daycare was too far to go nurse at lunch time....and my son was a great sleeper so i would nurse at pickup, because he'd fall asleep in the car and stay asleep until he woke up for his 10 pm feeding, and then he was out til 5:30. with my d, i took 12 weeks - with both istarted pumping and introduced the bottle at 3 weeks. Don't forget to have a totally different person introduce the bottle. My son was just greedy, but D wouldn't take the bottle from me until she was much older....
ETA - I concur with have a board cert doc on the epi - my kid came too fast to get the epi - but i made sure the doc was board cert..until the said stop - this baby is coming out!!!! I was like DUH!!!!! Second was with a midwife, no drugs either and she was pro mommy/baby/BF so none of those issues like at the hospital.....
