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I Wish Someone Had Told Me _______ (IWSHTM)

stoneycakesstoneycakes member
in May 2012 Moms
I wish someone had told me how time consuming breastfeeding is in the beginning.  I read all of these books and they said that babies typically eat every two to three hours so I expected that this is what a newborn would be like.  No one told me that he would want to eat for 45 minutes at a time, every hour and a half. It was basically 45 min on/45 min off for the first few weeks.  I was so overwhelmed.  I think I would have done much better if I had been mentally prepared for that.  Everyone tells you about the lack of sleep, but no one tells you this.  I am so glad I stuck to it, though, because now it's so much easier than preparing bottles.
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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    Did you take a class or read any books or lurk on the bfing board?? All of those places do tell you to expect to do nothing but bf for the first 6 weeks.
    But I'm glad you stuck it out too it's a great experience after you get past the newborn stage.
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  • littleredfishlittleredfish member
    IWSHTM that cutting baby nails would be a skill I'd have to aquire. Every time I have to wait until she is dead asleep, and even then my heart is pounding because I'm afraid to cut her little fingers.
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  • stoneycakesstoneycakes member

    imagebellelamb:
    Did you take a class or read any books or lurk on the bfing board?? All of those places do tell you to expect to do nothing but bf for the first 6 weeks. But I'm glad you stuck it out too it's a great experience after you get past the newborn stage.

    Yes, I took a class (albeit with a friend a few years back) and read books.  I must have skimmed over the part where it said it was so time consuming, lol.  I talked with lactation consultants at the hospital and neither of them said anything. I was seriously shocked!  I did start lurking on the BFing board after DS was born and discovered it was normal.  I wish I had done so earlier.

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  • stoneycakesstoneycakes member

    imagelittleredfish:
    IWSHTM that cutting baby nails would be a skill I'd have to aquire. Every time I have to wait until she is dead asleep, and even then my heart is pounding because I'm afraid to cut her little fingers.

    Yes, cutting little fingernails totally stressed me out, haha.  I usually make DH do it!

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  • LeonardsmamaLeonardsmama

    Hi, I mostly lurk but thought I'd join in the fun Big Smile

    IWSHTM that LO will puke/poop/pee on me every time I have an important meeting on laundry day. Every. Freakin. Time. I swear I see him smirk right before he destroys my last clean outfit. They're to young to start plotting against us, right?

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  • kgaunttkgauntt member
    imageLeonardsmama:
    Hi, I mostly lurk but thought I'd join in the fun Big Smile
    IWSHTM that LO will puke/poop/pee on me every time I have an importantnbsp;meeting on laundry day. Every. Freakin. Time. I swear I see him smirk right before he destroys my last clean outfit. They're to young to start plotting against us, right?


    LOL. Not every time but a lot of the time my girl will pee after I take her diaper off to change her. It's like a fountain and goes everywhere. I swear she waits until right before I put the new one on her because she smiles too!
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  • kgaunttkgauntt member
    imagestoneycakes:
    I wish someone had told me how time consuming breastfeeding is in the beginning.nbsp; I read all of these books and they said that babies typically eat every two to three hours so I expected that this is what a newborn would be like.nbsp; No one told me that he would want to eat for 45 minutes at a time, every hour and a half. It was basically 45 min on/45 min off for the first few weeks.nbsp; I was so overwhelmed.nbsp; I think I would have done much better if I had been mentally prepared for that.nbsp; Everyone tells you about the lack of sleep, but no one tells you this.nbsp; I am so glad I stuck to it, though, because now it's so much easier than preparing bottles.


    Ugh same here! I'll admit I didn't take a BFing class, but I sooo wish I would have... I read and thought I had enough info, ha! Live and learn. I also was shocked when I realized that all my baby wanted to do was nurse, nurse, nurse. I actually googled, 'is it normal for my baby to want to nurse all the time?' I resorted to EPing after bad latch and a sleepy baby... I miss nursing so bad now. I've been trying to get her back on with no luck yet.
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  • k4slr6k4slr6 member

    imageShkagoBride:
    IWSHTM how much time I REALLY had on my hands before my LO showed up. 

    THIS...or I wish I would have believed them if they told me.  Ha

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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    imagek4slr6:

    imageShkagoBride:
    IWSHTM how much time I REALLY had on my hands before my LO showed up.&nbsp;

    THIS...or I wish I would have believed them if they told me.&nbsp; Ha



    And when you have more kids you won't believe how much time you had when you only had one kid! Most ftm don't believe that either.
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  • ElinJElinJ member
    I wish someone had informed me about clusterfeeding. I had NO IDEA what was going on. I thought there was no way he was hungry. Once I understood what was going on that it was normal, it was fine. But before that? Yeesh, it was stressful!
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