Commitment, or lack thereof...
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Commitment, or lack thereof...
| Tue, 01-08-2008 - 1:56pm |
So I just saw something somewhere else (won't specify where, but I bet a few of you will figure it out!) where a woman indicated that she WAS planning on breastfeeding, but now because of a heated debate about it, she doesn't want to anymore.
Ummmmm, are you kidding me?


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Weighing in a little late on birth experience here, and replying to this post simply b/c it's easiest ;)
I had a birth plan and a doula.....and my hopes for a natural delivery were shot as soon as it was decided (well, I went along w/ it, but at *NO* time were options, risks, benefits discussed, EVER) that I was going to be induced.
11 hours of pitocin and I "caved" and had the epidural.
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As someone who never intended to be a mom (broken condom #1...medication interaction with b/c #2 (yes I double checked about my meds and b/c with both my dr and pharmacist...and they were wrong)). It seemed like a whole lot more to think about for those 9 months.
There is so much information and misinformation (wether it be from book, websites or friends) out there. Not only on the bfing topic but on everything. I remember having severe episodes of anxiety in the babystore when just trying to decide what swing would be the best. Now that I have two...getting stressed about everything seems silly, but I literally had never fed a child or changed a diaper. I didn't want or like children. So the issue of feeding never really crossed my mind as a major decision. At about 6 months when my 3rd cbc came back all messed up my doctor made up my mind for me. I came back with an extremely elevated eos count and that was something to be investigated after birth. After consulting with a GI dr. the course and amount of medications were not something that any of us were comfortable with me being on nevermind exposing them to a child. I went without any meds through the pregnancy and started after delivery. So that was one less decision for me to make. I really never thought about the whole feeding thing as a priority I just figured that I would try to bf and if that didn't work out I could go to formula. I can totally get where woman don't make feeding a priority on the list of decisions.
What may seem like a few simple decisions for one may be very overwhelming for someone else.
I had several kidney stones while I was nursing Josh. One was triangle shape and wedged in the opening of my utretha, causing horrible pain. Even 2 Demerol didn't touch the pain. I ended up using an anti-spasmatic I had from before and that finally helped me get the pain under control to survive moving days with just the kids to help.
It was 3w before I was able to get the lithotripsy done - there was no way this stone was going to move on it's own, despite the drs assurance that it would.
But I remember them asking if it felt like childbirth - no, it felt many times worse, and I had Josh completely natural. Every time I get a tinge of pain over my kidneys, I get scared, because the last time they checked, there were still stones kicking around in my kidneys. Increasing my liquids has been enough so far though...
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"As someone who never intended to be a mom (broken condom #1...medication interaction with b/c #2 (yes I double checked about my meds and b/c with both my dr and pharmacist...and they were wrong)). It seemed like a whole lot more to think about for those 9 months."
My Magpie is a 'surprise' too ;)
I for one chanted the f word over and over and over until the nurses suggested maybe going natural with an induced labor wasn't such a good idea.
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>>I don't quite understand that, though. The majority of what babies do for the first 6 months is eat. How can one not give that priority? I just don't understand....<<
For me there was more importance on what travel system I was going to get and how to coordinate the right diaper bag with the stroller seemed more important. I don't know...I can't explain it...that is just what I was concerned with.
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