Lola is six weeks old and I’m still going strong on the breast feeding. Just as I had presumed, taking into consideration my first go at it, I’m still really not that into it. Granted it’s free, and easy access, I still feel pinned down. Just about every two hours I have to sit quietly and wear my baby like eight pound broach stuck to the front of my chest. My nips hurt. Every once in a while I sneak in a formula bottle…she never knows the difference. If you fear that by feeding your baby a bottle now and then will cause nipple confusion, you’re buggin, these little guys will suck milk out of what ever vessel is put in front of them. Sometimes, I pump a bottle so I can sit back and enjoy not one, but two glasses of vino, worry free. But I always feel silly when I end up being the one that feeds it to her, sort of defeats the point in a weird way.

You know what gives me the willies? When people refer to feeding the baby as ‘nursing’. As in ‘Do you want to use the spare bedroom to nurse?’ I don’t know why but it feels awfully old fashioned and out dated. I’m usually all like ‘Where can I feed this little beeotch? Gotta get her on the teet asap!’ Then there’s the public feeding deal. I hate it. I don’t know why but it makes me feel vulnerable. Typically I feel like a tough street-wise type of girl until I’m in the food court at the Queens Plaza mall with a sheet (see Bebe Au Lait) over the front of my chest with my baby suckling away underneath as I scarf a burger. I’m just not feeling it. I know it’s as natural as can be but I feel for some bizarre reason I want to be in private when I feed my baby.

I’m going to hold out as long as I can. I want Lola to get all the yummy nutrients I can provide her with, but I’m not going to beat myself up about making the switch. I’ll go at least three months, maybe more. We’ll just have to wait and see…

To all the girls who had babies recently, or not so recently, how long did you make it?

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Seriously folks, I’m all for multi-tasking but for christ sakes I’d like to keep my dignity intact while I do so. I actually pumped a bit with Fritz and it is a total drag. It’s pretty time consuming considering the results. If I remember correctly, it takes about twenty to thirty minutes of pumping to yield about a half to three quarters of a small bottle. Stock up if your engorged. But if you ask me it’s worth it to get a little respite. Can’t a girl get two glasses of wine? When I would pump I’d just let the thing rest on my knee or whatever, it was casual, nothing like this device. I think these pumping contraptions may be made for women in offices who need to hurry the f*ck up and get back to work and bring home the milk and the bacon. This is about the power pump. When I first saw this product at Buy Buy Baby while stocking up on some supplies with my mom we both had a giggle. But now looking at it, I think damn, women have to deal with some pretty crazy shit from Brazilian Bikini waxes to having our periods every month to this! I don’t think men will ever understand the half of it. Am I right, or am I right ladies?

Hey Girl! Feeling your pregnancy style! Here we goooooo…

Commenter alias and real name: Mandy Lee
Expected due date: October 15th, 2009
1. I’m having a girl!
2. It’s my first baby and being pregnant has already made me a less selfish and more responsible person…
3. I’m so scared that my tits are never going to be the same - I was less than an A cup, and I only just got my implants 2 years ago and I have no idea what they’re going to be like after the baby’s born.
4. I’m naming the little munchkin Lilah Lee!
5. I love/hate being pregnant because I can’t drink any booze to help me with my stress/I’ve learned how to deal with it in other ways & for once, someone is waaay more important to me than myself!
6. The first thing I’m going to indulge in after she’s on the other side of the fence is a big blunt! - but I won’t go back to smoking as much as I did before.
7. My boyfriend/baby daddy is from the UK, and we met in the states, spent 48 hours together, I flew out to England 2 months later to chill with him - then two months after that, we’re having a baby! Everything has been so fast and wild! I’m so blessed that we love each other and we’re both commited to one another and our little baby girl. I never knew how much I could love someone until I met him - and then that love just multipled when we found out about our baby!