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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And sorry about the screaming child.
I hope the screaming stops soon. I always think my kids are screaming just to irritate me and then it turns out they have ear infections or are starving to death or something horrible, and then I feel really bad.
I'm afraid A caused B, sweetheart.
As to the screaming baby, I really can't offer advice, but I do feel for you. I hope he starts feeling better soon so you can maintain your sanity.