Comments on: It’s only natural! for us to judge you if you don’t totally love it

By: tracey

tracey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:07:03 +0000

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.

By: Isobel Jones

Isobel Jones — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:06 +0000

What an excellent blog, I’ve added your feed to my RSS reader. :-)

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:25:19 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title t totally love it. Thanks for informative article

By: scarletta

scarletta — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:18:46 +0000

thanks to all for their words and comments—this was very amusing. for me, breastfeeding was both hard and easy, and in looking back it was one of the few things i could feel good about during a time when i was a real mess. i had severe postpartum depression after both my kids were born, and felt like a totally incompetent person. for some reason, i refused to give up on breastfeeding, maybe it helped keep me alive—(i was suicidal some of the time)—
now i’m 60—i still feel good about having stuck with it.
we live in a society where there is too much emphasis on things being “easy”

By: mamaunit1

mamaunit1 — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:47:01 +0000

I was very lucky…my baby, who btw is now 16, latched on the very first time. To further my luck, I never got sore or had one problem with BF. However at 6 months my baby seemed disinterested…so I stopped. I shoulda read more and kept with it. But my BF experience was lovely and carefree.

I will always remember the mama I shared a room with in the maternity ward. While I was waiting for the nurse to bring my baby, my room mate was desperately trying to get her newborn to latch on. She told me she wasn’t successful at BF with her firstborn and really hoped this one she could BF. When I left the hospital my room mate was still struggling with no success. It just ain’t easy for all mamas and their babies. Faced with what I saw my roommate go through, you’d need a ton of help to be successful. No Mama should be made to feel bad about their decision to BF or not.