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Breastfeeding Stories2024-02-09T15:30:29+11:00

Breastfeeding Stories

Breastfeeding StoriesThere is nothing like reading a personal story when we are looking for reassurance or even to hear the truth without sugarcoating. With that in mind, welcome to the breastfeeding stories page of our website! In this section breastfeeding parents share their journeys, hopes, fears, successes and challenges through heartfelt breastfeeding stories.

Each breastfeeding journey is as unique as every baby. Breastfeeding stories can offer reassurance by validating our thoughts and feelings and opening our minds to experiences, opinions and ideas we had not previously thought about. If nothing else, reading breastfeeding stories unites us on the breastfeeding journey and proves that no matter what we are experiencing, we are not alone.

In this section, you will find breastfeeding stories, including Breastfeeding a Toddler and The Agonies and Ecstasies: My Breastfeeding Story – stories that explore the joys and challenges that breastfeeding can bring. Breastfeeding doesn’t always go to plan and can sometimes require much self-belief and perseverance to sustain. However, the benefits are undeniable, as explored in Relactation, Six Months of Exclusive Breastfeeding, My Breastfeeding Story, and Feeding Finlay: A Personal Journey to Induced Lactation.

Do you have a breastfeeding story you would like to share? We are always looking for new content for this page. Here are some ideas about stories we’d love to include in this section:

  • Breastfeeding stories written by mothers
  • Breastfeeding stories written by fathers
  • Tips and techniques for breastfeeding
  • Photographs of breastfeeding babies
  • Stories about when breastfeeding stops
  • Your favourite breastfeeding resources

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Relactation

A personal and challenging story about relactation. Since I was a little girl, as silly as it may sound, my life's goal was to be a mother. Someday I would have a baby whom I would love with all my heart and, naturally, I would breastfeed. My mother was heavily involved with the La Leche League, a Q global breastfeeding organization, and breastfed my brother and I until we were 6 and two and a half, respectively. When she

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Six Months Of Exclusive Expressing

When I was looking for a midwife for my homebirth, it was extremely important to me that my midwife be a Lactation Consultant being as my first baby (hospital born) never latched to the breast and support was not available to me.  I left hospital with my baby being fed by expressed milk and supplemented with formula.  After five weeks of expressing, great stress, sleep deprivation (all which equated to a low supply), and an Early Childhood Nurse who

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Breastfeeding a Toddler

Breastfeeding was always something I was determined to do with my babies, and for as long as possible. I remember a few hours after my first baby was born. The midwife came and asked me if he had suckled yet. When I replied no, she gave his head a firm push in the direction of the nipple, he immediately latched on, and it was the beginning of my breastfeeding career! I’ve since had four more children, and have breastfed

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My Breastfeeding Story

My breastfeeding story begins with my independent midwife saying to me ‘have you started learning about breastfeeding’ and with me responding ‘I thought it just happened naturally’. After kindly and gently letting me know that ‘it doesn’t just happen naturally’, my wonderful midwife lent me countless DVDs to learn from. I also joined the ABA and read their book cover-to-cover. I was separated from my baby for 10 hours before our breastfeeding journey began. During this time, I expressed

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Feeding Finlay: A Personal Journey to Induced Lactation

As far back as I can remember I have wanted to have children, to be a mother, and throughout my life, I have always seen breastfeeding as one of the most important parts of the early mothering relationship. But despite my plans and dreams, my path to parenthood just didn’t go to plan! After many losses and feeling emotionally unable to face the possibility of another, my partner and I began to explore what was then considered a radical alternative

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The Agonies and Ecstasies: My Breastfeeding Story

My breastfeeding story  and breastfeeding relationship by Naomi Homel. My mother breastfed my three siblings and me. I was 11 when my brother was born, and as she fed him till he was almost 4, breastfeeding was a natural, regular part of our lives. When I became pregnant for the first time, a little over three years ago, there was no doubt in my mind that I would breastfeed my baby. I mean another option didn't even enter my head.

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Battling the Breast Crawl

“The thing is, you’re only a student.” These words hit me to the core and I was left speechless, angry and disjointed. But those words meant something. I am only a student. I can’t change the world right now, but I can make a difference. After all, it only takes one person to make another feel better, right? The harsh reality of those words seemed cruel and incorrect and the truth is they probably were.

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If you have a story to share or would like to suggest a topic that you’d like to read more about, please email Pregnancy Birth and Beyond or fill out the form below.

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