Great
breastfeeding stories that will make you smile
I breastfed my daughter, Krista until she weaned herself at
under 24 months of age. Like most older babies who nurse, she tried to
bite my nipple when teething (my sharp cry of pain put an end to that
just after two times); she'd try to pull up my top in public when she
got the urge; and she had her own word for "nursing"
- "NUMACE".
I'll never forget the time I was sitting in my parents' family room
nursing Krista who was about 16 months of age. I had just positioned
her in front of my "other" breast. My teenage brother came
in the room, said, "Hi" and started bounding up the
staircase to his bedroom, until he was stopped in his tracks.
To all our surprise Krista' returned the greeting with a hearty,
"Hi, Steve, I'm numacing on this side now!"
That was 24 years ago, and I'm proud to say Krista is now numacing her
3-month-old son, Evan.
Barbara-Ann D. Ackman
We had explained to my 3 year old in great detail that our
new baby would drink "mommy's milk" when he came home from
the hospital. He was not real sure about this, because he really
wanted to feed the baby himself, but we thought he had a pretty good
handle on what was going to happen.
The day I got home from the hospital, I was feeding the baby while
sitting on my bed. Cameron crawled up on the bed and stuck his face
right next to the baby's to see what he was doing. He moved around a
couple times to get a better view and poked my breast to see if there
really was milk in there.
Then he sat up and very firmly asked his father, "Daddy, may I
please have some COW'S milk in a SIPPY cup?"
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Cameron breastfeeds his doll,
because "she just would not drink out of her
bottle."
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The other day my 3 year old was again watching our baby
nurse. When the baby let go for a minute, Cameron looked at my breast
and said, "what is that on your best (breast for adults)?"
I told him those were the milk ducts and you could see them because
they were currently full of milk. Of course, he decided to reach out
and poke one and a little milk squirted out. He was amazed.
This led to a long explanation of how milk works. Mr. curious now
understands that when the baby sucks, the milk moves down so the baby
can drink it by pressing on the milk ducts with his tongue and lips.
That seemed sufficient, even for Cameron.
Later, I allowed Cameron to hold the baby's tummy so he would not
roll. I went for a wash cloth to wash the baby's face and chest after
a first run at cereal. When I came back, one side of the baby's chest
was all covered with slobber. I asked Cameron how the baby got all
wet.
Cameron told me that baby Jack was pretending to be mommy and he was
pretending to be the baby. And he was very unhappy that the pretend
mommy did not send any milk when he sucked with his tongue. I think he
was even more upset when I just died laughing.
Lisa Wright
When my son Zach was 2 months old he wanted to eat every two
hours so you can imagine that he did most of his nursing while I was
still half asleep.
I usually leak pretty heavily when he starts crying so I wear my bra
and nursing pads to bed. One particular night I heard him crying so I
stumbled out of bed and took off my bra to prepare for the feeding. I
happened to notice that he had a dirty diaper because I could smell
him.
Not wanting to fully wake him for the diaper change, I gingerly
removed his nightie and proceeded to apply a fresh diaper. I noticed
that he was completely soaked after just changing him and figured that
he had peed while I was fumbling for a clean diaper. I removed his
diaper again but by this time he was fully awake kicking, laughing and
squealing. Before I could put another diaper on him a fresh explosion
of poop flew out everywhere and you guessed it, he was kicking the goo
all over the place!
Somehow I managed to get that mess cleaned up, slapped another clean
diaper on him and snapped his jammies back up. I finally picked him up
to nurse and he was wet again I couldn't believe it, but this time his
jams were completely soaked.
I had been trying to do all this in a very dimly lit room so I
wouldn't wake him, but when I finally had the sense to turn the
overhead light on, I looked down to find that both my breasts were
practically down pouring on him!
It was not one of my better moments, but I can look back on it now and
really laugh!
Sydney Edmonds
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