Well, im back again with my B/F story.
Everytime during office hour, i would normally take a break about 20 minutes for my milking session. So per day, i need at least 2 times to pump out my milk. Nowadays, since my milk is decreasing, I will just do it once a day. It depends on my mood actually. Sometimes there are more, sometimes there are less. The milk will only produce more if I feel more relaxed but not when I’m stressed up at work.
After im done with everything, i would normally go to the pantry and washed whatever that is needed to be washed. So everytime any mary, jane and achi went to the pantry, they will bump into me and started with the very normal question ” Eh? You still breastfeeding?” And i told them yes.
So came this ‘experienced’ Ah Sor in my office telling me that breastfeeding is very good. She praised me for being a good mother and encouraged me to continue breastfeeding. Thank you! (lol).
This Ah-Soh is around late 40s or early 50s and told me about her wonderful experience of breastfeeding. She said that her mum used to breastfeed her and her siblings as they were very poor last time and there is no formula milk during their time. So they have to depends on their mum’s milk and all of them has grown healthy. She even adviced me to eat a lot of fish and soups and eat nutrious foods only. Everytime she saw me at the pantry, she will repeat the story again and again until i began to wonder, why she keep repeating about her mother? What happened to her then? Did she ever breastfeed her kids?
I wanted to ask her that soalan cepu emas but i decided not to. At the first place, she never mentioned anything about her children or spouse. It is always about her siblings and mother. So i assumed that she is not married even though she can be a grandmama. But ok lah. She’s cute lah at least she encouraged me to breastfeed my boy.
Then came this another lady. Same2 lah like that Ah sor age. Hers is very special because she started to talk about her past and how she used to breastfeed her son. She told me that she didn’t breastfeed for long because she realised that her milk turns to be yellow colour. Very sticky yellowish colour instead of the normal yellowish/white colour. I suspected that she may be referring to the colostrum,
The thin yellowish fluid secreted by the mammary glands at the time of parturition that is rich in antibodies and minerals, and precedes the production of true milk. Also called foremilk.
She then thought that it was not healthy and decided to pump and throw the whole lot away. Everyday she suffered the same incident and decided to go to her gynae for help.
She was informed by her gynae that her case is very rare because not every woman is lucky to have that huge amount of foremilk. She got scolded by her gynae for throwing it away. If im not mistaken, that colostrum is found during the first few days of latching. I am still confused and till now, i am wondering if there is really such a milk?
Then the last thing i heard was that, she told me that she even went to this so called organisation, it is something meant for those people who sufferred AIDS, its not breastfeeding association or quit smoking assosication, (lol) and i can’t remember what she did over there. It was strange but unique. But entah eh? I am not sure whether if this really happened and if she’s telling me the truth and nothing but the truth.
Then came another lady, telling me that i am very lucky because i still have milk! I asked her why is that so? Then she started to tell me that hers is useless even though she has big boobs but there is no milk! If you tell me this before im married, i would have believed you 100% ok? heheeheh. Ok then i just smiled and nodded to show that yeah i got you. Don’t worry. Lol.
Then next came another lady telling me that her baby doesn’t want her milk. I was shocked and asked her, WHY? I was told that, “my baby keep pushing my nipple away and showed a sign to vomit! I guess they are used with formula so i decided to stop giving my breastmilk”. Wahh…the way she talked to me like….” ya lor…like that lor…dont want then dont want lor….”
Then a friend told me that her case of not b/f her baby is because her baby cannot latch on her nipple cause she got BIG nipple. I then started to have that imaginary nipple to see how BIG is that BIG nipple? hmmmmm….
You see, i learn new things everyday, especially about breastfeeding issues. Different people with different reasons. Some are genuine and some are fakes. I prefer those who tell me that they are lazy and give up on b/f than to tell me 1001 reasons why they CANNOT b/f. It is okay. We’re all human beings and we are not here to judge others. It doesn’t mean that when you b/f, you are the most perfect mum in the world. Merepek lah ok?
So many stories and so many reasons. If i were to count that, it will never end. As the saying goes, aku peh suka ah nak breastfeed ke tak nak. Ko apa hal siak?
LOL!
