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A Tip I Kept
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a piece of advice I remember and still use today is that it is completely possible to achieve a nursing journey through exclusive pumping whether for health reasons because you cannot nurse directly because you simply want to choose pumping or to avoid feeling the pressure of being attached to your baby all the time this valuable advice was given to me by a great friend when my firstborn was in the icu and even though at that moment I felt like it wouldn’t be useful because I was so overwhelmed with a wall pump she proved to me through her experience raising her 4 kids with exclusive pumping that it was possible and thanks to her example I managed to overcome my fear become a milk donor and achieve a prolonged nursing journey for almost 2 years
that advice stayed with me forever and has continued to accompany me in this second nursing journey remembering it even more when my child was teething and in the biting stage understanding that I didn’t have to endure the pain to feed him but that I had pumping as an alternative and also now that he is 20 months old and has been a bit sick these past weeks dropping his demand I keep pumping with my portable pumps to maintain my supply sometimes we nurse sometimes we pump sometimes we do both and that is okay
if you are a new mom just starting out or wanting to try pumping even if your child is older I want to tell you that it is possible that doesn’t make you a bad mother on the contrary being well protecting your mental health and knowing that we are doing much more than we think every day I always embrace myself and remind myself that I am doing well it is something that makes me feel very proud and I thank my body every day for continuing to respond for continuing to nourish my child and it is definitely a great piece of advice that I really wanted to share with the entire community
