Comments on: A guilty confession http://huileng.seng.sg/2004/10/20/a-guilty-confession/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 May 2012 18:35:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ivy http://huileng.seng.sg/2004/10/20/a-guilty-confession/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Ivy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0000 #comment-140 You are so fortunate.. when I first started breastfeeding, my mum in law was not supportive.. everytime i feed or express my milk she'll stand at the door way and give me a disgusted kinda look. She even commented that breastmilk smell bad. She keep bugging me and ask :" Are u sure u got enough milk?" While I'm feeding she'll sit beside and stare and say :" U see U see baby is not sucking, u got no milk lah..." When my baby was diagnose of Jaundice she accuse me for causing it... It was very depressing for me and my Hubby was not exactly supportive then, he's more concern about the baby then me. When my uncle heard about my plight, he called me and say :" aiyah why so troublesome? don't create trouble or dispute with your in law, just feed baby formula milk loh" Sigh... luckily I'm the stubborn type, I persisted. Felt so lonely then, like everyone was not with me, but when I see my little baby I tell myself I must persist and show all of them that I will be able to breastfeed my baby and voila! I succeeded! My milk supply build up and after hearing her friends and relatives talking about the benefits of breastfeeding, now she finally accepted the idea of breastfeeding. To make things worse my best friend actually discourage me from breastfeeding too, despite being a mother herself. Her baby is just 3 months older than mine.. she keep asking me to stop breastfeeding when I reported back to work. She said it was too troublesome to express and store in the fridge. There was once we arrange to meet up and I requested to meet a little later cos I want to bring my expressed milk from office back home first before I meet her. U know what?? She actually ask me to discard the milk and feed my baby formula........ sigh... Support and encouragement from your close ones are really important. So I hope no one will encounter a worse experience than me. You are so fortunate.. when I first started breastfeeding, my mum in law was not supportive.. everytime i feed or express my milk she’ll stand at the door way and give me a disgusted kinda look. She even commented that breastmilk smell bad. She keep bugging me and ask :” Are u sure u got enough milk?” While I’m feeding she’ll sit beside and stare and say :” U see U see baby is not sucking, u got no milk lah…” When my baby was diagnose of Jaundice she accuse me for causing it… It was very depressing for me and my Hubby was not exactly supportive then, he’s more concern about the baby then me. When my uncle heard about my plight, he called me and say :” aiyah why so troublesome? don’t create trouble or dispute with your in law, just feed baby formula milk loh”

Sigh… luckily I’m the stubborn type, I persisted. Felt so lonely then, like everyone was not with me, but when I see my little baby I tell myself I must persist and show all of them that I will be able to breastfeed my baby and voila! I succeeded! My milk supply build up and after hearing her friends and relatives talking about the benefits of breastfeeding, now she finally accepted the idea of breastfeeding.

To make things worse my best friend actually discourage me from breastfeeding too, despite being a mother herself. Her baby is just 3 months older than mine.. she keep asking me to stop breastfeeding when I reported back to work. She said it was too troublesome to express and store in the fridge. There was once we arrange to meet up and I requested to meet a little later cos I want to bring my expressed milk from office back home first before I meet her. U know what?? She actually ask me to discard the milk and feed my baby formula…….. sigh…

Support and encouragement from your close ones are really important. So I hope no one will encounter a worse experience than me.

]]> By: hait http://huileng.seng.sg/2004/10/20/a-guilty-confession/comment-page-1/#comment-141 hait Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0000 #comment-141 *pat pat* that really was a bad experience, thank goodness it is over! Can feel your agony of not getting enough support! Things are espeically difficult when we are torn between maintaing good relationship with family/friends and standing firm on our belief in giving the baby the best. You must be really persistant and determined about this breastfeeding conviction! *pat pat* that really was a bad experience, thank goodness it is over! Can feel your agony of not getting enough support! Things are espeically difficult when we are torn between maintaing good relationship with family/friends and standing firm on our belief in giving the baby the best. You must be really persistant and determined about this breastfeeding conviction!

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