My breastfeeding experience – Part 1
Breastfeeding is the toughest experience I had after giving birth to Nadia. As of now, I still breastfeed her, I have never fed her with formula milk yet. First 6 months she was totally exclusive breastfed while after that she started with solid feeding and breast milk remains her main food. I never thought I can do it for so long, as during the 1st two months, I felt like giving up almost every single day.
When I was pregnant, my husband and I know that we want to breastfeed our baby because we were exposed to the benefits through articles and antenatal class, and I think most people know that breast milk is the best. But, equipping ourselves with the benefits is not enough; I wasn’t prepared at all with the challenges I was going to face. I wish I prepared myself more by asking the experience mothers on how they can breastfeed successfully. Because breastfeeding needs a lot of support and commitment, and to me, I need to self psycho to keep going. And I think I can understand why people stop or start mixing with formula to ease the pain.
When people know that I still breastfeed, they begin asking how I do it. Seems like it is out of norm that people breastfeed solely for long. But this is not true, I have come to know many working moms who are still breastfeeding for more than 6 months. After giving birth, I was desperate for information and tips on how to breastfeed successfully. I searched online for the tips and most of them come from experience mothers. From there, I get to know most of the issues I faced were similar to theirs.
The first rule to successfully breastfeeding is:–
Never listen to any negative comments from the people around us including our own mothers, relatives, close friends, friends – e.g Not enough milk, must mix with formula, baby keeps crying and still hungry – all these negativities come from so called experience people who have never exclusive breastfeed before and think they are super right. When I get this comment, it automatically goes in my left ear and out from my right ear straight disappear into the nearby dustbin. I feel strongly about this because it can really make people give up.
I’ll share more on the obstacles I faced when started breastfeeding in my next post 
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Chin hing, I think breastfeeding is not a gift from mother to baby (which most articles would said so).
Not breastfeeding while the mother is able to do so, IS a way of sabotaging babies right to have best food of nature instead!
You’re doing great job , glad for Nadia she has wonderful mom and dad, cheers!
Chin Hing,for myself i didnt have the experinced on breastfeeding to my baby boy.i had alot of milk till make me felt the pain when the milk cant release out .Due to my nippple is too small,my baby cant suck the milk out-*(.
After i been tried for 2 days,i gived up and listen to doctor advised to take medicine and let the milk release naturally from my breast..u can imagine the milk came out like pipe water after 1 hr taking the medicine..this is most thing i felt “可惜和浪费“,in fact i had alot of milk for breastfeeding but it cant be due to my baby didnt have kind of patient to suck milk as well…
PH: Your are doing a wonderful job by BF your baby Sean now, already over 3 mths and still going strong… it’s great to know that my friend is doing this together with me
I think due to our culture and upbringing, many moms nowadays don’t BF for long, maybe it’s not that they give up, but they don’t know that they are capable of BF exculsively… jz need more awareness…
Lisa: I think you have a positive mindset about BF and yeah, there are medical reasons sometimes that we cannot control as well as baby doesn’t co-operate
But this had passed, maybe try again for the next one? 
Ibelieve in demand and supply concept for breastfeeding.
Every baby demand for quantity of milk is different. Although I do ask other bf mother how much milk they can produce for each session and I feel that mine is much lower, I still believe that my boy will have sufficient ‘food’ to consume.
KB: As long as your baby is doing fine, there’s no need to compare with others, I think you also know that