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Nursing firstborn: A true breastfeeding story

Written by Abel Cheng

Thursday, 02 August 2007

I always find stories about mothers overcoming obstacles in breastfeeding fascinating and heartwarming. Because it takes courage, focus, and commitment to do it. And also a strong will to weather all sorts of comments from naysayers.

Li Za is one of the examples. Her story might not be perfect for breastfeeding advocates but hey life is not perfect.

As long as you do your very best to breastfeed your baby no matter what happens, this is already a success story in itself, at least to me.

It doesn’t really matter whether Li Za wrote this story during World Breastfeeding Week or not. What’s more important is how she overcame challenges of all kinds in breastfeeding her firstborn.

Among the problems she faced:

Total exhaustion after delivery
Producing not enough milk
Guilt of not giving breast milk but formula
How she turned from 60% formula to fully breast milk
No nursing room when she started work

If you are at the brink of giving up breastfeeding without valid medical reasons, go read the story and be inspired. I hope this story makes you feel better because you’re not alone in facing these problems.

See also:
Breastfeeding your baby: Tips on how to make it work
Breastfeeding or Bottle Feeding: A Debate Between "Mrs. Breast" and "Mrs. Bottle"

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Carrie said:

I'll never forget when my older sister, who had her fourth when I was pregnant with my first, breastfeed her 6 month old.

She asked if I was going to nurse and I said of course, and she said "it takes about 6 weeks to get used to it then it's smooth sailing."

I remember thinking, what in the world is so hard? Just put your nipple in his mouth and he sucks. LOL!

4 kids later I know. They were all breastfed, some trouble free, some not.

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