One bigger than the Other!

Well its been 2 -3 weeks now of weaning my son off breastfeeding. So how can one of my breast still be larger than the other? This is a potential problem with bathing suit season rapidly approaching us! As you can probably tell I'm trying to keep my humor with the whole situation. One breast has completely surrendered to the idea of not producing milk, but the other is fighting me every step of the way! It makes getting dressed a challenge. How do I not look lopsided when i'm wearing a bra that fits the larger side. (one full cup larger) So now I wear and tight tank under any shirt hopefully to deceive anyone who maybe looking. I wish I had suggestions to how to fix this, because I'd like to at least be close in size for both. I figure I'm not alone out there and other moms hopefully can laugh along with me, while waiting to be back to normal. Here's what I'm not doing: I'm not breastfeeding or pumping. So how come it keeps producing. So here is my message to my over productive, work-a-holic boob! Take a vacation and relax! You are layed-off for the time being. The product is not in demand as of right now and we will let you know when your services are needed again :) Had to have a laughable rant about this, since I'm getting frustrated about it!

Know your stuff! Healthy People 2020 initiative

There has been a huge push for creating healthy individuals for the United States. The idea is if we start out a human from the first breath as a healthy person, this should carry over throughout there entire life! That's where the idea to promote breadfeeding to the public from many different professional started. There are many different benefits to both the baby and the mother when you choose to use breast milk as a source of nutrition for your child. The antibodies in breast milk help fight any virus, or bacteria that may enter into the babies body. By far babies who are breastfed have less illnesses, and are hospitalized less as well! How could you not consider this choice with all those benefits to your youngster. But It gets even better moms also have benefits associated with choosing to breastfeed. You return to your pre-pregnancy weight faster, along reducing the risk of osteoporosis, and studies have also shown that it decreases the chances of breast cancer. With all this good , what are the down falls to breast feeding and why do people choose not to do this? One may be the Time commitment! Its a lot.... of time and dedication. Here are a couple great links to refer to: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs73.pdf and http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx

Crazies...

Do people ever comment on your choice to breast feed. Sometimes I wish they would keep there opinions to themselves!
Yes: I do breast feed
Yes: My baby is almost one
No: I don't think its weird!
No: I don't care about the sacrifices I make to breast feed my child....
If your ignorant to the benefits of breast feeding and make comments without doing your research, please keep them to yourself! I hope this hits home with other moms experiencing the same thing. Its our choice, and personal preference to breast feed. Not to mention the benefits to the baby, the amount of money you'll save. I don't know how many times I've been asked, Isn't your son too old to still be breastfeeding, isn't it weird for you, aren't you getting tired of pumping. Well the answers are no hes not too old since my goal was to do it for his first year of life. No its not weird hes my child, I created him. And Yes I am tired of being hooked to a pump, but Ill do it until we've reached our goal!
So this is to all those mommies looking, needing support.... You've got it here.

Positions???

What position works best for you when you are breast feeding? Is it Cross-cradle, Cradle, Football hold or the Side-lying position. Every baby is unique and different as to there preference.

So if we know what position works for breast feeding, then what position should you bottle feed in?

Try holding the baby in a different position than you would breast feed him/her in. If that doesn't work, try facing the baby outwards and bring the bottle around to the front of babies face. This part of the equation can be tricky when trying to introduce a bottle. If baby has been fighting you on taking a bottle try to catch them right when they are waking up from a nap.. and still a little groggy... give a bottle then... and see if that helps!

GOOD LUCK