I'm very curious about this. I think it is a wonderful thing and I know it's possible to breastfeed adopted babies. Are any of my "adoption" readers planning on doing this? Do you have a website about it that has been useful? How would I go about getting started?
My husband is not sure about it, only because when I tried to breastfeed our daughter, it didn't turn out well. She didn't latch well and we would both end up crying at each feeding. After 5 weeks I decided to start bottle feeding her. Needless to say, Nick had a very difficult time seeing his two girls so upset. Even though it was more difficult that I expected it to be, I'm still willing to try again. I just have no idea where to begin or what to do!
I'm not too worried about it after getting started, I have some amazing friends that I think would be willing to help me and I'm pretty sure there are classes in my area.
Any thoughts or advice is welcome!
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I LOVED this site for great nursing information w/ my babies... they have some great "induced lactation and adoptive nursing" guidelines!
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/adoptivebf.html
If you can get support from a breatfeeding group or la leche league so that your experience is better this time, you will do fine. I have one bio I nursed and 5 years later nursed my adopted child.
Soggy - Thanks for the website, LOVE it!
Anon - Thank you as well. I will have to look into LLL in my area.
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