Maybe some of you are afraid to admit it, but I can't be the only one who really did not care for breastfeeding!!! (Yes, I know the health benefits and such!!!) I noticed on the did you breastfeed question that everyone did and for a long time!!! I thought that breastfeeding after the age of one was realitivly rare (not saying there is anything wrong with it!) but around here it appears to be the norm!

I just feel kind alone in saying that breastfeeding did not help me feel closer to my children (we are extremely close), it did not bond, I just found it to be a pain in the tuckus, I thought I was doing well breastfeeding #6 for 4 months (the longest I made it with any of my 7 kids)

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~Happiness is a large family~

I did not breastfeed any of my children. I didn't even try. That is what was best for me and my family.

I was never comfortable with the whole idea of it. Maybe because I was young, but I did have the same feeling with the baby (now) too.

I have gotten slammed from many because of it too. but I can't worry about them. Even a doctor in the hospital (he was not too happy with me). what can ya do??

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Stacey

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ~ Eddie Cantor

I breast fed both of my boys for almost a year. I am a sahm and pretty much a hermit, so it wasn't a bother for me, I was always right here anyway. It was a pain the few times that I did have to leave the house for an extended period of time. I don't know how people do it when they have to go to work. I don't know if I would have made the same choice under that circumstance.

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The mighty oak started out as a nut that held its ground.

It's not that I didn't care for it so much but I had a LOT of problems. So I didn't breastfeed either of my kids for as long as I wanted to...due to those issues.

IMO a lot of those things about breastfeeding, or anything else that pertains to parenting, esp to mothers...if you don't breastfeed, this will/won't happen. If you don't co-sleep, this will/won't happen etc I think the positives in mothering, happens to everyone, but in different ways. We have friends and family with adopted children that were never breastfed and they are clearly bonded etc

It's hard enough being a mother, to rate ourselves on these imagined scales of 'good motherness' is just silly. You have to just do what works for you and your family...

I did not breastfeed either of my kids. I know about all the benefits to breastfeeding, but for me, I was not comfortable with the whole idea and I also knew going back to work and being gone for almost 12 hours would be very difficult to keep up with pumping, etc. The doctor and nurses even told me that if I wasn't comfortable with it, don't even try to start it. (Too bad my MIL wasn't there to hear that-she berated me for weeks after having my kids that I didn't breastfeed, even though she didn't with any of her kids either!) I don't feel I missed out on anything, my kids are very healthy kids and I don't feel that by me not breastfeeding, that we are not close.

On the other hand, I give a lot of credit to all the mothers who do breastfeed. I have a lot of friends who did do it and enjoyed it!

I tried really hard to breast feed my first 2 but my milk never came in. It was extremely stressful and my babies were hungry.

With the last 2 I didn't even try, even if I did try, it wouldn't have mattered, my milk never came in.

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I did BF !! but I think what works for one does not for another!!
Its sad to see that people got flamed for Not BF!! YES i loved it and will be an advocate for it! BUT its just not for everyone!! for MANY reasons!! theimp part is taking care of there needs and loving them!! and that can happen with Bottle or Breast!!

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Kelly mom to 2 gymmonkeys!!!

I didn't care for it either! I breastfed my first DD for 6 mos. and then bottle fed the other 2. It was what worked for our family, and all 3 are healthy and happy.

OH no, you are NOT alone!
I hated it. For one my baby was sooooooo big(11 lbs, 8 oz) when she was born that she was content not to eat for days. As soon as I got her next to me, she would zonk out. We tried everything, down to stripping her down to just a diaper and putting ice packs on her feet to keep her alert. The last day I was in the hospital they introduced the pump to me. She just did not want to latch. Well I pumped and "some" came out, just not alot.
So I kept pumping for 20 minutes every 3 hours for 3 weeks and never got much of a milk supply. So we supplemented with formula. After 3 weeks I put the pump away and said "go ridance" to the whole BF experience!
I thought it was too stressful and very inconvienient for us.
If I were to ever have another child I would not have even tried it again. I do believe that in the hospitals the staff tend to push you more toward breastfeeding, at least that was my experience.
So again, nope you are not alone in not liking to breast feed.

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Jenifer M

This is me to a tee.......Thanks for saving me all the typing

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