Dorothy
State:
Virginia
Num Children:
9
Age Children:
17,15,13,11,9,7,4,2,9 mo With my older 5 kids I had no problems nursing them. Each re-gained their birth weight by 2 weeks old. Then came #6. He took 3 weeks to get back to his birth weight. If I wasn't an experienced mom, I would have believed the pediatrician who thought I should supplement with formula.
# 7 and 8 were also easy babies. I went back to work after being a stay at home mom for 16 years, when #8 was 11 months old. At that point, she was only nursing 2 or 3 times during the day, and a few times at night. No biggie, we co-sleep, so I could feed her easily.
# 9, I had 8 weeks off after my c-section and bought a good quality double electric pump before I went back to work. He has only had a few ounces of formula in the last 7 months. I found out he (like his mother) didn't tolerate cows milk. He threw it all back up and broke out in a rash. It's hard and time consuming to pump at work. Who said being a parent was easy?
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