Thursday, January 17, 2013

I breastfeed and ...

do just about everything.  After breastfeeding for a total of 65 months and counting, I think as a mother of 4 kids that is required. Today on the breastfeeding bloghop we are talking about breastfeeding and multitasking and/or being green.  So what things do I recommend partnering with breastfeeding and what things would I avoid?  For some reason, writing this post is totally cracking me up.  I read it to my husband to see if I have forgotten anything and the faces he made gave me the giggles.    So, I haven't actually done ALL of the things I recommend avoiding, and I'm not telling which ones. 

Things to do while breastfeeding:
Read
Type (yes, you can learn to type one handed and use capitals)
Check homework
Chase your two or three year old in the park
Push a grocery cart
Pump the other side
Talk to a friend (in person or on the phone)
Eat or drink something cold
Sleep
Attend a wine tasting
Shop at the mall
Take a bath
Singing in church
Flying (as passenger in an airplane)

Things to avoid:

Driving (passenger or otherwise)
Cook dinner
Eat or drink something hot
Paint
Go to the bathroom
Take a shower (baby gets too slippery)
Exercize
Teach a college class

I have actually taught Sunday school while breastfeeding.  I think this takes some discretion and knowledge of the families in the class.  One of the three year olds asked me a lot of questions about nursing and I had to discuss the whole thing with her mother afterward.  Had it been a different mother it might have been an awkward conversation.
One thing in the news today that I have not done is cross- nursing.  I have not nursed someone else' s baby or let someone else nurse mine.  And unlike the Kardashians I don't intend to.  I'm not saying milk sharing is bad.  But be sure you know the medical   history of the milk donor.

6 comments:

  1. I SO wish we could safely and legally nurse and drive(you know in an imaginary world.) It would've saved my girl so much screaming and crying in the first few months!

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    1. Oh me to! I dream of a safe suspended car seat where you can hold and nurse baby in the car. Too bad I'm not an engineer.

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  2. We didn't milk share either. I know families that have donated milk, but it's been to people they know personally. Thanks for joining us this week.

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    1. Giving breast milk to someone you know who needs it makes a ton of sense.

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  3. I love that you've taught Sunday school while breastfeeding. More kids needs to grow up learning the real function of breasts rather than continuing on with the sexualization of them.

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    1. Thanks Mystika! I agree our culture does over sexualize breasts and this influences how people feel about breastfeeding. When I was teaching breastfeeding Miss Froggie was 2 and she thought nipple was the more normal word in the world. Now she is 12 and her opinion has changed.

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