I just HAD to do this Take a picture of it and post it on your flickr account. If it gets TOO big, call a doctor. Is it hurting, or is it just big?
What the hell kind of threesome was going on there??? There's got to be some sort of joke about pu$$y in there!!!
I like em', hell, I love em', but what are we talking about here... Oh...my bad, yeah, my first two did not bfeed, but my third one did...Apparently there are more nutrients, but all there are healthy...
Congratulations on the new baby! I don't understand why parents/grandparents get so worked up over these things. People have been having babies since the beginning of time. They know what to do. Feed it, let it sleep, play with it--that's all.
Alright, so I think the little fella is turning some kind of corner. The past day and 1/2 he's been doing very minimal fussing as we get him ready to feed, and he seems to be sucking on the breasts alot longer. But, as predicited, my wife is obsessing over feeding him the mystical 2 oz of milk quota (given to us by the lactation consultant) each time he sucks on her boobies. Yesterday she said, and I quote "oh man, he only ate 1.4 oz of milk, I need to put him on longer". In hindsight, I should have just had her create a CF.net logon and ask you guys for help.
Has your wife's milk came in yet, or is it just colostrum that she's producing. My daughter is almost 5 weeks old and we went through a very similar situation. But once it became milk instead of colostrum, the baby quit latching on to the breast because the breasts were engorged. We went to a lactation consultant and she was able to get the baby going on the breast using a nipple shield, which is similar to a bottle nipple that fits over the breast nipple giving it a better shape for suckling. As far as the formula is concerned, you may not need to supplement with formula for long if your wife's milk supply can get up to par. I would suggest that you rent a high-end breast pump made by Medela (they are around $250 new). Every two hours your wife should pump or after the baby eats. This should increase the milk supply. Something that you haven't mentioned is your wife's emotional stability through the difficulty of breastfeeding. It was really hard on my wife to have so much trouble. We thought that breastfeeding would come easy since it's such a natural thing, but when it wasn't my wife irrationally thought that it was her fault and that she was being a bad mother. It was useless to try and argue with her rationally as the postpartum hormones were really kicking. Seeing a lactation consultant and having a plan of action helped. Right now, our baby is eating fine and is gaining weight quickly. She's still using the nipple shield and we'd like to get her off that, but I'm just glad that she's getting all of her food from breast milk. Oh yeah... Boobies... Huh! Huh!
I thought about trying to throw one in there, but I've been sick and I just didn' have it in me. I'll leave the jokes to some of the pros here on this BBS.
No kidding. The only think more irrational then a pregnant woman is a woman who is going through postpartum. My wife went through the same guilt thing with our first child. Attempts at feeding were followed by crying sessions. We supplemented with formula for two months. After two months she gave up and went only with formula. That year after our first child was born was the longest twelves months of my life. My wife never did bond well with our first child because of post partum, heck it has been over five years and the two are still at each others throats. Plus add in the child never slept for longer then three hours at a time for six months. I took care of the child most of the time when I was home, nights mainly. I earned my fatherhood badge that year. Turns out besides post partum hormones, my wife's thyroid gland decided to go haywire and stop producing enough of it's hormone. Let's just say that her mood was better during and after the second pregnancy, three cheers for synthroid and zoloft.
Wow. We've really been lucky. My wife didn't have any problems breast-feeding once the milk came in, she never had to use any "nipple shields," she was able to pump as much as was needed, once she returned to work, and was able to pump at work. (she was the head of a state commission on a subject very much related to kids, ironically, when she became pregnant with our first, so she did as she damn well pleased) Her biggest hangup was waiting to have sex until she'd "healed up," that one of her boobs got larger than the other from boob-feeding (and it stayed that way... as well as just getting and staying bigger, now one's a D and one's a DD. she was a B-cup when I met her. I ain't complaining!), and putting on some weight after our second. She was 40 at the time, which had an impact on that, I think.
After the first pregnancy my wife went from a B cup to an E! She started having neck and shoulder pains and our medical insurance actually approved her for breast reduction surgery. She is now a C cup size in both. The breast reduction surgery negated any debate on breast feeding our second child since the duct work in her breasts were cut. They didn't work that well when intact so I saw it as no big deal.
this thread officially sucks now. thanks for the talk of post partum depression, nipple duct cutting, nipple slips, and kids....jesus guys...
You could redeem the thread for me by posting a picture of an E-cup. I'm at work so I am limited at the moment.
Quick bit of googling, and G-cup was the biggest size I found. No pics though. "These knobs go to eleven."
A wiseman once said, anything more then a handful is a waste. Also, the larger they are, the harder they fall, I mean sag, over time.
