Le Leche League
I went to Le Leche League right after I had Gentry. I went for about 4 months, I think. I would not recommend it unless you are having stress about breastfeeding. I was. I wish that someone, namely one of the gynos that I had at the time would have checked out my chest and told me that things were not quite right. If they had oogled my chest they would have been able to tell me that my nipples were inverted and that I should wear SoftShells. These little buggers are supposed to suck your nipple out so that you do not bleed when you feed your baby. I should have been aware that I may have had a problem, being that I had never had to worry about thin bras on cold days. I always thought that this was a blessing. Little did I know that it would cause me the worst pain in my life. This is the worst pain in my life because I only went through an hour of labor pains before they have me the epidural (which I highly recommend). However, feeding Genrty hurt so bad that pain sensors would shoot off in my brain into my legs letting me know that this hurt and that I should probably knock it off. This happened for two months. Ouch. Anyway, Gentry kindly fixed the problem and now I do have to worry about cold days and thin anything. In fact, lots of layers are the best. I don’t want to look like this.
So the women of LLL would share stories of breastfeeding their children and the reactions that people that do not breastfeed their kids until their four would give them. I am not kidding. I went until Gentry was one and really I feel that was quite and accomplishement. These mothers feed kids that can pretty much ride bikes and pivot around them while sucking sustenance from their mothers.
One woman told a story about how her daughter had gotten rotavirus. Which I guess is pretty awful and you throw up for days and it is really bad. So she had taken her daughter to Jordan Valley Hospital and her daughter that is 2.5 years old is lying on the table being worked on by the doctors. Normal right. Not quite there was on large obstruction to their being able to help this little girl. The mother was standing, leaning over the little girl with her bossom hanging out of ther shirt and she was feeding her daughter. She said that they looked at her like she was insane. I thought, “I would look at you like you are insane.” Now if you want to feed your 2.5 year old daughter in privacy go right ahead. I do not care what you do in the privacy of your own home, or dark secluded corners of the mall, or the back stacks in the library. But in the hospital while doctors are working on your child?!? What made it even better was she was wearing a shirt that said,”I make milk, what’s your super power?” I am not kidding. Buy them here.
But Breast is Best.