I NIP...and who really cares if I do!

I will openly admit that I didn’t nurse Liljana as long as I would have liked to. But there were many reasons as to why I didn’t. Most women will use the excuse of ‘I didn’t produce enough milk”. In reality only 1% of women don’t produce enough milk for their babies.

So yes I have some guilt for not nursing Liljana for more than 3 months, and my reasons were because I was uneducated! I felt as if my husband didn’t approve and I was stressed out to the max!

Now with Amelia I have made it to the two month mark! YES I am beyond excited, and now that I know what it’s like and what to expect it brings my guilt with Liljana even harder to understand why I didn’t seek out resources to start with.

See Liljana is truly my miracle baby. I had endured several miscarriages before I became pregnant with her. So when I became pregnant with her I was beyond scared and I didn’t educate myself about anything else. I was put on bed rest and that’s exactly what I did, I rested. I slept almost all day long and most of the night. I became very lazy so to speak and didn’t have anyone to connect with. The exact opposite with Amelia. I had previous experience and researched everything. I became determined!  

So when I began nursing Amelia I decided that it didn’t matter when or where I was going to nurse her. If she became hungry I would nurse at the drop of the dime.

As we all know breastfeeding in public has become such a taboo topic and I honestly don’t understand why! It’s no different than a obese woman or man eating. No one really wants to see it yet no one says anything about it. Why, because it would be RUDE!

So what gives people the right to make rude or snide comments to a nursing mother? Well so far I have yet to meet anyone say something or do something really rude.

I have had one semi rude comment directed to me while nursing my baby, but in the end I thought it was rather perverted and funny at the same time.

This man at Walmart said “I’m hungry too” as I was nursing Amelia, But my darling daughter  went off on him about his rude comment and put him in his place. YEAH, for my 4 year old understanding.

Well tonight I had the waitress at a local family restaurant peek under my cover and pat me on the back and say good job! I was semi embarrassed that she peaked, but was proud that she acknowledged that she knew what was best and that was breast!

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