Please come share your bf stories with us...

[SnowBirdie]

please come to the resource forum and share your bf stories and tips with us in the resource forum under the bf thread! we need lots of input, and we would love to hear your trials and success, and your tips for bf twins or singletons too. we need you!:):friends2

[SnowBirdie]

i am bumping this up in case someone missed it....i know there are lots of good stories out there...:)

[Smidget]

i don't have much of a story yet....

[SnowBirdie]

well, whenever you are ready just add it in. we will be here, right? i figure whenever it starts seeming a little easier you have gotten past the hump, but i know challenges coome up later along the way, too. :frolic i will keep reminding (annoying) people about it every now and then :hehe :hehe

[Smidget]

sounds like a plan. i don't have anything but bad things to say right now cuz the girls aren't sleeping and i wanna kill them, but i'll come back when i like it more :para

[SnowBirdie]

:lmao you are sooo funny! i know the feeling, believe me, but it will pass :hugs and then come back...then pass...and so on until they are about 30 :lmao (although hopefully not all about bf and keeping you awake) :lol :lol

[Bella~*]

aawww smidgy poo... i go through this at least once a day :para your an awesome mommy, going through alot dealing with TWO babies, it takes a toll on you mentally not to mention. 3 months you might "MIGHT" notice they seem to finish up there eating a tad quicker than they used to.

at 4 months they might add on thirty minutes to there sleep. The way I look at it is this. either you stick to it, and give them the best gift in the world. or two have some sick babies, that formula isn't able to give them. (antibodys) Not to say they "wont" get sick, but it sure as hell has proven to me, that shes not gotten as sick as her brothers have growing up. sniffles here and there.

Seriously keep telling yourself over and over that this too shall pass.. and you'll look back and laugh. I blog about this stuff, and Im happy to look back at all the hard times.

love you !

[Bella~*]

If im not making sense I blame it on the lack of sleep.. hahaha

[SnowBirdie]

you are very wise, bella bambini :D

[gypsymom]

Awww, Smidgey and Bella you guys are wonderful. My boys aren't too much older that I don't remember where you're at. I'll tell you those first few months of bfing were the worst of my entire life. :( I cried at least once a day and fantasized about dropping the babies off at an adoption agency, or the neighbor's stoop, or anywhere where they wouldn't be my responsibility any more. :para You two are doing such an awesome job and are both wonderful mommies. It's so cool that you are blogging your experiences, Bella...I think I would be scared of how :cuckoo I really am if I wrote it all out. But then again, I do it at GZ all the time. :lol

[Smidget]

aww, thanks gypsy! i have seriously considered ebay a time or two :para imagine how much money we could make if we kept having twins and selling them! :lol i just can't wait till it gets better. i'm so ready to stop being nothing but a drool-covered, baby-holding, milk-machine. i want my babies to appreciate me for something else too :waiting

[Bella~*]

HAHA, I gotta have memorys Gypsy she's our last baby, and some days I just wanna have ( that tiney) baby again, she's so big as it is now.

:cry

With the twins I so know how it is about the overwhelming part of it...

:heart

[SnowBirdie]

okay, just so you have hope it gets better...i know i posted this before, but these are the eyes of a big girl who understands and chooses to still get nanny...and she doesn't wake at night (although she whines during the day, but that is another story) or hang on me for it most days (well, only at times..lol). they are little people now, and they arean't always attached, but we do have a bond that bf really made unique:)

just so you can see how sweet it will be later when they can tell you they love it and you by their eyes or words.....makes it worth all the effort:heart

[SnowBirdie]

okay, i added the last picture because i really like it...shows how grownup they have gotten and how close they are. i confess to shamelessly slipping in an extra picture just because i couldn't resist...:lol

[SnowBirdie]

I am bumping this so we can add anything we would like for our resource page. Please update or write your story if you can. It might make a difference to some families out there:friends2

Thanks!!!

[HoneyBee + 3]

All of my kids had a bit of a hard time latching on. I'm pretty large busted (DD without BF'ing), saggy and flat nippled. For me, I became so frustrated trying to get all the kids to latch that it was easier for my sanity if I pumped my milk. I did nurse for the couple of months or so on and off as well as feed bottles of EBM. With Isabel (my first DD), I had to go back to work when she was 6 weeks old and with my high stress job and hardly any pumping time, I ended up switching to formula at 3 mo. When I had the twins, Gabriel was diagnosed with reflux at 7 weeks. I was encourage to keep pumping and actually thicken his EBM. Then it just became easier to pump for both of them. With the twins, I was able to do 5 mo. of pumping before switching them to formula. I wish I had gone longer looking back b/c Gabe ended up having a milk allergy and needed to have hypoallergenic formula (lots of $$). I think that if you can BF, any amount that you can give will benefit them. Even if it's just the colostrum. BF'ing isn't for everybody though.

[HoneyBee + 3]

oops, I just realized you wanted me to put this in the resources forum. I'll look around for that and then c/p the above post.