This post has a specific purpose, which is to ask advice from my readers who have successfully (or unsuccessfully) nursed babies in the past. If you haven't, you're still welcome to read, but consider yourself warned. I nursed S-Boogie for an entire year before she weaned. I generally felt that things went well, although she did not gain a lot of weight very quickly. With Little Dude we got to about four months or so before I realized that his extreme fussiness was probably related to hunger and we switched to a bottle because I couldn't get the supply back up. There were a lot of things going on in my life at the time, including a major move and his emergency delivery, so I'm not surprised that my body flaked out on me. Since then, however, I've been doing a little research on hypoplastic breasts, which are basically those that don't have enough milk-producing tissue. A big sign of that is the fact that they don't change size during pregnancy (mine don'
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One of my daughters got me one of those scooters the grocery store provides, after I was injured recently. She was having a ball driving it around, to get it to me. I rode it for about 3 minutes and told her to put it back! It was too embarrasing to look like an 'old person'. In your case, you may FEEL old on occasion, but at least you don't look it, too! And as was pointed out, it's TEMPORARY!
(I'm kind of like my Grandmother, who refused to buy a pair of 'nice, sturdy shoes'. My aunt told her that my other aunt had just bought some and loved them. My grandmother said, 'If Lola wants to wear old-lady shoes she can, BUT I'M NOT WEARING OLD LADY SHOES! Grandma was in her 90's then!)
"if you had one" = i.e. a Jazzy.