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Jenny952
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How do you go out during feeding times?
Jenny952
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What do you do when you have appointments over a feeding time? We have a few doctor's visits set up for the next couple days and I'm sure they will fall around her feeding time. Do you take bottles with you? Or do you still nurse when you're out? TIA!
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Re: How do you go out during feeding times?
I never bring bottles anywhere anymore, but I used to for probably his first 5-6 months. I thought it was easier and it took me quite awhile to realize it was a PITA
I will say that I truly wish I had begun nursing him while out and about right from the start. Once I decided to start doing it, he wasn't used to it and would be extremely distracted, get freaked out by the cover, not eat well etc. I feel like if I had started when he was a newborn, he'd do better with it. He still doesn't NIP well, but I still do it. I actually feed him in the car quite often because he's much less distracted that way.
DD (5 years old) from IUI in 2012
TTC 3rd and final!: IUI #1 in progress!
I nurse on demand, so if I was out and they wanted to nurse, we just nursed. But! It took me until DS1 was 10 weeks before I nursed in public with him. (I guess I would nurse him before we went somewhere before then? I have no memories of what I did...). With DS2, I was a lot more confident, so I NIP with him starting when he was a week, in the waiting room of our doctor's office.
Get a cover if it makes you feel better, find out-of-the-way spots wherever you are. Lots of women nurse while they're wearing their babies (though you have to wait until they are a few months, I think). It gets easier the more you do it. Good luck!
DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)
I have no shame so I've been NIP since the very beginning. I have a cover which was nice when DD was really tiny but now that she's getting older and flails around a lot more it's easier to just do without one. I'm actually more self conscious about someone seeing my chubby belly than seeing me latch her on.
And because DD is fed on demand if I tried to avoid feeding times I would never leave the house.
DH: 34/Me: 35
Married: Feb 2008
DD: June 2011
TTC# 2: April 2014
BFP!! 8/29/16 --> EDD: 5/11/17....it's a GIRL!!!
I think I've nursed at every dr. appt. I've been to. It's very helpful to calm him down after shots, actually. The pedi's office is very nice about letting me stay in the room as long as I need to after the appt. if he needs to eat. The first visit I think we were there 30 extra minutes!
I don't really like nursing in very public places now that DS is so wiggly, so now if we're out to dinner I usually do bring a bottle. Wish I was more confident about NIP, but I'm just not! Depending on the situation, I might go to the car, or a quiet corner or something.
that is one of the many advantages to breastfeeding! the food is ready to go whenever the baby is!
just nurse anywhere you need to. use a cover if it makes you feel more comfortable. i nursed both of my kids for over a year, each, and i have nursed them EVERYWHERE. not one person ever gave me a side look or made a comment.
that's what breasts are for!
I nurse DD wherever, whenever, and around whomever.
When she was smaller I used a cover, but now she fights it so much, it's easier without it. I can be very discreet, but if someone is looking that closely, they are liable to get an eyefull, and that's just not my problem. As a PP said, I'm more self-conscious about my belly flab.