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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Nonsense in Breastfeeding that people likely to do to Nursing Moms



In my previous chat about my BF
journey with my elder son, Hanafi, I have omitted the nonsensical part unintentionally. It was a long journey full of bittersweet memories & I know that Hanafi knows how he cherishes those days when he was fully breastfed by his Mama. Almost 3 years which is 2 years fully breastfeed, meaning no formula but as he was approaching 3 years old, we started him formula.

After absences from the BF journey about 1 year plus, I begun again this journey with his little brother, Hambali. Preparation-wise is better & alhamdulillah the endurance is still there. Though occasionally, Hambali consumed the formula, I would not presurring myself this time and would remain take it easy attitude. To me, it is Something better than Nothing. I lead a very stressful life nowadays & it does taking a toll not only in this journey but all aspect in my life.

It triggered me to chat about the Nonsense remark or advise that I've encountered in both BF journey after having read Fid's latest entry a while ago.

With Hanafi, some negative comments or nonsense advises I received :-
1) Please eat sweet food more so that your breastmilk taste better & baby will happily nursing. I got this during confinement.

2) Hold your breast like scissor-way a.k.a. using 2 fingers so baby won't suffocated by your breast. I learnt later that is a wrong technique should hold the breast like 'cupping' way.

3) You got lots of milk because you have BIG BOOBS. Yes, I admit I have big boobs but it got nothing to do with the milk production. Moms with cute ones have abundant in fact some till oveflow of supplies. Care to explain?

4) Don't breastfeed too long or your breast won't look nice anymore. Hemmm....

5) Never ever let the precious breastmilk drops on your boy's penis or else they will become impotence later on. This one I can't explain. Any evidence in medical research? Experience-wise or overheard from other people's story? (Note:-Received from bloodkin)

6) Why so skinny & not tall enough? He's breastfeed isn't it? By this I would patiently explained that by Medical research, BF baby tends to be smaller than the FM counterpart but the beauty of it that you can't help to notice the stronger bones & the fit, lean muscles. Anyway, that is what I've seen with my boy, Hanafi.

To date, with baby Hambali, some nonsense I received :-

1) He is only drinking breastmilk but why still got UTI? Something wrong with the breastmilk? (that occured before he is taking solids-less than 5months old) I'm SOO SAAD that I've been blamed for it & that remark comes from someone very near to you. (Notes :-UTI is Urinary Tract Infection & to cut short something to do with the bladder system. Alhamdullillah after the ordeal we've gone through, baby Hambali can now stop consuming Antibiotics nightly.

2) Tandem-nursing is No! No!. "Nanti budak jadi bodoh!" (the baby / kid will become stupid)
Me, ????.

Well, whatever people said, whatever people think & I even encountered some people pretended not to see the expressed breastmilk stock that I left & easily opened the formula while I'm away, I don't give a damn! Those people can go to H***!!
Ed's notes :- Sorry that I sound harsh can't help it as I tend to be very passionate whenever this topic being brought up.


11 Vis-a-vis:

nelcyndana said...

hanz, samalah kita sumer yerk. aku paling sedih kalau yg mengomen tu bfeeding mother juga. cuma without knowledge.

Hanim said...

nasib baik tak kena kat i (me- doktor yg garang okie). if not...panjang berjela la aku lecture.

penat2 pegi Dr Param (hosp selayang) nyer breastfeeding course.. but i still learned most form other fellow breastfeeding mom.

we must stay together to shoo away this nonsense.

-big boobs? not mine kot
-small baby? adoi Arianna's so tough and berat
-eat sweet stuff? uish diabetes nanti
-bodoh? tp org dulu BF, formula takde zaman dulu..tak bodoh pun

DH says i nih mulut laser... haha gimme more examples and i combat them all, insya Allah

Dayah said...

mmg biasa diterima..kkdg ada kekuatan nak balas balik, kekdg malas, buat tak layan je la...

Sidratul Muntaha said...

Salam Kak Hanz
yuop
don't give a damn to all those fake facts!
as far that i have concern,inside al quran there is some surah told us a mother to bf our baby until 2 years old.
whatever it is..
back to surah,al quran and hadis.
ilmu Allah itu kan luas dan menyeluruh?
by the way...
please vote me as supermummy amazing blogger award at the top banner in my blog!
thanks in advance.

precious innocent said...

aik... kat sini pun comment i x kuar ke??? hmmm

-mama emma-

Hanz said...

My fellow-chatter friends...

Love u all for the support. United we stand! Yeah!

kakyong said...

Salam Hanz,

point 2,3 & 4, pernah le kena kat kakyong.. heheh.. Aliya dari baby memang nenen lama, kdg2 1/2 jam.. la ni jer dah kurang, tp ade le abt 15 min mcm tu..

selalunyer kakyongbuat dek jer.. malas la nak pusin kan kepala dgn benda2 tu, nanti susah pulak nak tumpu pada anak2 & rumahtangga.

Hanz said...

Betul tu Kakyong!

ar.nie said...

Paling perit kalau ayat2 nie kita dpt drpd org yg "dekat" (pertalian darah) dgn kita kan... hmmm...

SOHO Mama said...

Hanz..ngarut ngarut semua "myths" tu..! They all sound so ridiculous. Nak ketawa pun ada.

Kalau big boobs je banyak susu, org tgk I alamatnye tak sangka I still bf-kan baby yg 10bulan dah ni.

Susu tak boleh terkena birdie baby..takut impotent nanti..? Adui wayang mana pulak diaorg tengok ni.

Bf-ing baby lebih kecik dari formula-baby tu subjektif jugak..i've seen both,big and normal-sized babies who are consume bm fulltime.

Yup, united we stand :)

wee chen said...

Hi Hanz,

Ha....50% of what you'd written also "shoot" to me when I'd just started to breastfeed my son, especially afer 6 months that he had started solids.....

I don't care....it's my son, not theirs!

Just my wish to those ppl, "Please keep quiet if you are not supporting! Thanks a lot!" :P

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