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Mother to be trying to decide if I should breastfeed...
I am a mother to be and I am still trying to dicide if I will bottle or breast feed. Is there any way to simulate someone sucking on my breast. I have tried suction cups. I really don't want answers about how you don't need a feel for it
Thank you (18 btw)
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If you wonder, does breastfeeding feel bad? No it doesn't. It doesn't hurt, it is a good feeling. Does it feel anything like your sex partner suckling on it. Maybe a little but I have experienced both and there is something different that I can't put into words of how a baby suckling feels compared to a man.
Are you trying to base your decision on whether to do so or not based on how breast feeding feels? There are many other factors to consider, my favorite 3 are:
1. that the suckling starts contractions in your body that helps it go back to normal sooner, the parted muscle panels of your tummy and the widening of hips for childbirth to come back together. While you may not go exactly back to starting point on the hips, you still have your body doing this naturally while non breast feeding moms have nothing to cause their bodies to want to go back into shape.
2. It is healthier for the baby. Early breastfeeding has immunities passed on from moms milk to the baby. The manufactured formula's no matter what advertisers say, is not as healthy as mom milk. In fact there are reports going around that there may be ingredients in baby formula that may actually be harmful for the baby.
3. I always had milk warm and ready at any time. Its great especially when you're half asleep middle of the night and need to do nothing more than pick up your baby and bare the breast. It's handier when you're out and about too, I just draped a receiving blanket over my shoulder and over baby to form a tent and let her feed under there. Dad and others can also bottle feed baby any of your milk which can be expressed with a pump, I had more success doing so by hand. Froze the milk for others to use to feed baby when I had to be away for short amounts of time or just wanted some time on my own.
Find the local chapter of La Leche League in your area and ask any questions you may have of them. Leche is French for milk. They are worldwide. So on the site link I give, for local help, choose your country, then state and then closest city where they have a chapter.
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