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To be completely honest I think if I could go back and do it all again with my first son I’d have possibly just stopped breastfeeding him after he’d had the colostrum. I was too tired, \u00a0 With my second child I would have not<\/strong> listened to the professionals.\u00a0I would not<\/strong> have given him orange juice when they told me he was not pooing enough<\/em>.\u00a0I would not<\/strong> have put him on formula when they told me I didn’t have enough\/my milk wasn’t good enough.<\/p>\n \n I would not change a thing about my breast-feeding experience with my third son.\u00a0It is magical and I really feel the self weaning is going well. At *some point* this week \u00a0he asked for milk and was on and off quicker than you could blink – I think he just likes to know he can<\/em> if he wants.<\/p>\n My fourth son I would have had more confidence in myself.\u00a0I would have breastfed him more and not<\/strong> be intimidated by being told that he wasn’t putting on enough<\/em> weight and would have pushed further to find out what was the real reason behind his weight loss.<\/p>\n \n Other posts of interest<\/strong><\/p>\n My breastfeeding journey<\/a><\/p>\n Tandem feeding<\/a><\/p>\n Baby born at 35 weeks helping us to decide not to have more children<\/a>\u00a0(and the fight to breastfeed him).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To be completely honest I think if I could go back and do it all again with my first son I’d have possibly just stopped breastfeeding him after he’d had the colostrum. I was too tired, \u00a0and too selfish\u00a0and too busy doing my A-levels. I didn’t appreciate how much he needed feeding and honestly, don’t … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[259,492],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"To be completely honest I think if I could go back and do it all again with my first son I’d have possibly just stopped breastfeeding him after he’d had the colostrum. I was too tired, \u00a0and too selfish\u00a0and too busy doing my A-levels. I didn’t appreciate how much he needed feeding and honestly, don’t…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pepM9j-rP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}and too selfish\u00a0<\/del>and too busy doing my A-levels. I didn’t appreciate how much he needed feeding and honestly, don’t think I fed him enough. I think I breastfeed because I felt under pressure as a teen mom – with everyone waiting for me to fail at it – so I wanted to prove them wrong.<\/p>\n