http://cultofperfectmotherhood.com/on-assholery/#comment-363
Omg.. When my
kids were babies I struggled with Breast feeding.. With my oldest,1, my milk was
leaking out at 5 months pregnant. I seriously was cutting maxi pads in half to
soak that shit up.. most of the time I ended up with a wet shirt but it lasted
longer! Anyway, the night she was born after a horrifying C-section and near
death experience, my milk "came in" with a vengeance.... My breasts
swelled up like watermelons about to burst...OMG PAIN. And I was already on
narcotics! Anyway the nurses got really really hot cloths put them on my
chest until the flood of milk, and I started breast feeding... while on
narcotics... as you can imagine this did not work out well.. She would fall
asleep 5 minutes in, I assume from the mouthful of PERCODIN she was
ingesting!! (Oh! And I found out later, the nurses were giving her “supplemental”
formula in the nursery!! No wonder she wouldn’t eat!) But I kept trying, and the Le LEACHE psychos
kept bugging me.. I mean I don’t know about you, but the way I was raised you
do NOT let a stranger grab your bare breast and squeeze the fuck out of it…
STRANGER DANGER!!!! So after a leisurely
9 days in the hospital I was sent home, 20 yrs old with a newborn and huge
breasts with which to feed her…and narcotics.. Thank God for my mom! So 2
nights later, my boobs have once again swelled up and are hard as rocks, I can’t
get the baby to eat.. my mom is out.. and I start to hallucinate… Breast Fever…
? .. Had no idea THAT could happen!! My temp when my mom got back an hour or so
later was 105… IDK what happened but she fixed it.. and I gave up on breast
feeding about 2 weeks later.. back then “88 you just went to your Dr and they
gave you a shot to dry up your milk.. But those Stalking Le Leache psychos continued
to call me sometimes twice a day to get me to “reconsider”!! I finally got them
to stop calling when I told them I was going to call the cops for their harassing
me.. I mean seriously I was already freaking out, had post partum depression.. “baby
blues” we called it, the last thing I needed was these people making me feel
like the worst mother alive for stopping breast feeding!
After the second kid, 2, 4 years
later I was a little more prepared. Shut the Le Leache bitches down the first
day, ended up breast feeding for 5 almost 6 months.. till the driving need for alcohol
was answered!! Honestly? I did feel a bit superior to all of those Formula
feeders! I was sucked into the hype.. I was a better mother because I was breast
feeding!! HA! Looking down my nose at them, I tripped over my own foolish feet
and realized that no matter how I did it, I was the only thing my kids knew and
no matter how I fed them, I was doing it right. Well, unless you count that
time I put the Pepsi in 2’s bottle cus she would leave me alone… Hey I was at
the good part of the book!
My final child,3, was a
shock. I was expecting to be able to do this again, hands tied behind my back
No Problem… LOL.. Did you know that boys
are different than girls in EVERY way????? Thank you S-I-L JA who answered my every panicked call
no matter how late… Breast feeding lasted 3 weeks… And I did not give a rats
ass who thought it sucked.. I NEEDED BEER! And to not have a kid hanging off of
me every waking moment….
No matter if you Breast Feed
or do not IT IS YOUR BOOB!! Tell the busybody’s who think they know it all to
FUCK OFF or better yet hand your screaming kid to them and say “if you know so
much YOU DO IT!!”, ok that one should probably be reserved to people you
actually know… omg if a stranger said something about my breast feeding or lack
thereof, I would have punched them!
Turns out I got Breast Cancer
anyway so THAT myth is debunked!
And to the blog that caused this blog…THANK YOU!!!
READ
THIS.. SO FEAKING GREAT!
Did they give you the Le Leche cookbook? I received one not to bad but yes I was sure made to feel dumb and dumber because my son wasn't latching on to my Breast in the way they thought he should be doing OK My son was already 6 weeks old, he knew his way around my breast, I invited this woman as a favour to my friend nearly ended up tossing her out.. I got Breast Cancer too!! What is with them they seemed almost cult-ish!! Love Alli....
ReplyDeleteLOL No cookbook but those women were so intense. And I do think it is a cult! I've said that so many times! Just because I didnt want some stranger grabbing my breast I was the bad one... She told the nurse I was "Uncooperative" and "Hostile"! LOL!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reply on that anyway. Did you read the original post that got me on that wild tangent ?? It was great! - K