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| | From:  Avidly (Original Message) | Sent: 11/17/2007 9:14 PM |
I go back to work right after thanksgiving and promised myself i would nurse that far, and then i could quit. just don't feel like pumping at work, its ridiculous. and i[m sick of the whole breasyfeeding scene. that i made it this far is nothing short of phemoninal. so, o experienced ones, any suggestions for the least painful way to dry up? |
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| | | From: Avidly | Sent: 11/21/2007 7:14 PM |
*groan*
oh the agony!! I feel like I'm hauling two giant boulders around on my chest. |
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So sorry that I didn't see this sooner. Did you try to eliminate a few feedings a day or are you going cold turkey? The way that I did it was that I eliminated a mid morning and mid afternoon feeding first and started eliminating more until I was only nursing first thing in the morning then last thing at night. This would relieve any pressure that I had so that I could be comfortable. Then you can take away those too. |
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| | | From: Avidly | Sent: 11/21/2007 11:43 PM |
| I've been slowly doing less and less for the last two weeks, but on Sunday I finally cut cold turkey and it was brutal all Monday and Tuesday. Tonight I'm seeing the light, they're down in size and have stopped aching, so I cracked open a beer to celebrate. LOL My first beer in eleven months, I can't believe I'm even saying that! |
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Im sorry avs... i know thats painful  glad to see its gettuing better and enjoy that beer!! |
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i don't remember the drying up being painful...but i do know my friend who works full tim adjusted her milk so her baby ate formula during the day and drank her milk at night and the weekends.......she said it takes a while to adjust but it just works out that way......you give what you take......i always wished i tried it.....cause i think i stopped too early.........but i also remember the first couple weeks being horrid......scabby breasts and all of that........but yeah.......ive heard it can work "part time"......and if you want avidly i can ask her exactly how that was done... |
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oh and she didin't pump at work.....her boobs just adjusted |
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| | | From: Avidly | Sent: 11/24/2007 4:24 PM |
| I'm almost done, they don't hurt anymore, just leak once in awhile. I might have to go bra shopping all over again, I don't seem to fit into any of my old ones, can't tell if I'm bigger or smaller, I just know I don't fit. |
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| | | From: Avidly | Sent: 11/30/2007 11:28 PM |
Had my 6 week check up this morning, and told her I had finished nursing. I showed her a pic of Dylan and mentioned he had doubled his birth weight already to 12 pounds. She gasped and said "What? No wonder you gave up nursing! I bet you couldn't keep up!"
okay, so I guess that's why I hated nursing so much, my son is a little piggie. LOL |
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| | | From: Jnp9 | Sent: 12/1/2007 1:47 AM |
did yall see the trading spouses episode where the mom hadnt stopped breast feeding and she was feeding her kids breast milk still they were teenagers in HIgH SCHOOL |
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omg........that is soooo creepy......i thought my friend was a little weird when she was still breast feeding when her daughter was walking....i think she was 3 or so.......i just looked not right |
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| | | From: Jnp9 | Sent: 12/2/2007 6:44 PM |
ya thats what this woman did she bottled her breast milk and fed it to her kids the kids knew about it |
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