Thank you so much for posting this. I don't have children, but my sister has a 4 month old who weighs only 10 pounds--only a pound and a half above her birth weight. She's had similar problems that you seem to have had with your daughter, but not nearly as awful, and she just recently made the decision to stop nursing. She's going to pump as much as she can, but she's decided that it's not helping her or her daughter to continue to struggle with breastfeeding. She has an amazing LC (paid for by WIC!) who is very laid back about formula and a supportive pediatrician, and without them, she wouldn't have made it as far as she did.
My sister has made absolutely the right decision for her family, but that doesn't matter to some people. To some people, she didn't try hard enough and she's a bad parent. And it just makes me so incredibly angry that people could judge her, without knowing everything that she's had to deal with since P. was born.
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Date: 2006-06-01 07:55 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for posting this. I don't have children, but my sister has a 4 month old who weighs only 10 pounds--only a pound and a half above her birth weight. She's had similar problems that you seem to have had with your daughter, but not nearly as awful, and she just recently made the decision to stop nursing. She's going to pump as much as she can, but she's decided that it's not helping her or her daughter to continue to struggle with breastfeeding. She has an amazing LC (paid for by WIC!) who is very laid back about formula and a supportive pediatrician, and without them, she wouldn't have made it as far as she did.
My sister has made absolutely the right decision for her family, but that doesn't matter to some people. To some people, she didn't try hard enough and she's a bad parent. And it just makes me so incredibly angry that people could judge her, without knowing everything that she's had to deal with since P. was born.