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I used to have a pump but found it absolutely useless. Safia refused to take a bottle and so I just nursed her wherever I went, shopping, airplane, taxi, park etc. I never felt that breastfeeding in public was a terribly embarrasing thing to do. But other family members pressured me and still do, to use bottles. I’m lucky I’m a stay-at-home mom, so I don’t need to pump. But I wonder if some women feel they just can’t nurse in public?
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SaimanNYC: Girlfriend I can not never breastfeed in public. How you overcome that public phobia? My mean how you feel so comfortable showing your breast around in public?
Please do not take it in any other mean but thinking of doing it makes me feel so uncomfortable.
SAJAL: So if we stay at home most of the time we do not need pump.
NEERA: ARe you goin to buy one? I talked to my doctor and she said, wait to buy after delivery, She said, everyone breast is different and hospital has different pumps to try.
Minha_pa : I think you are really luck to have good supply of milk. I hope I get good one too.
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LUSSI: BREASTFEEDING is undecent topic for you then you should not come in this thread at all. Keep in mind its women only topic.
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ILOVEMYBABY: I will not buy the pump until after the delivery. I am going to be a stay at home mom as well, so if I only needed it for like the beginning then I guess the best thing would be to rent from the hospital.
I also don't feel comfortable breastfeeding in the public.
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how do you think your mom fed you!?? hmmmm
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There are ways of nursing descreetly. For instance when I would travel and be delayed at the airport ofcourse the baby got hungry several times. I wear a nursing bra, use a shawl or blanket over my shoulder and find a quiet corner to sit down. While on the plane i've always gotten lucky and sat either next to a woman, another mom or alone. I always felt like it's just a natural thing to do, my child has to be fed. But I stay covered and try to be discreet about it.
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I always felt uncomfortable about breastfeeding in public, even though I knew I was covered up I still felt somewhat exposed hence why I used expressed milk when not at home.
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The ones who feel uncomfortable or disgusted seeing a woman feed her baby are morons. For them it’s okay to walk around showing your breasts, wearing cleavage-bearing stuff, but breastfeeding is “indecent”… right 
Please, don’t be ashamed of breastfeeding. Women in Pak do it all over the place. They just have their duputtas wrapped around their chest, and ususally sit down in a quiet place. Everyone knows what they’re doing, and there’s nothing wrong with it…
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Sorry Code_Red, but no men allowed.
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I can understand feeling uncomfortable in public especially around male relatives. Around strangers it wasn’t such a huge deal. Most of the time people didn’t really know what i was doing and nobody really even bothered to look. But I remember sitting in the back of a car while my brother-in-law drove and he would say, “Ok, just let me know when you’re done.” He was more embarassed than I was. I wouldn’t even sit in the same room with my father-in-law if I had to feed Safia. For my In-laws (mostly m-i-l) there is this sort of stigma of backwardness regarding breastfeeding. It represents village women to them. By that I mean, if a woman is poor in Pakistan then her only option of feeding her child is to breastfeed. She’s like a cow. But if a woman is wealthy she can bottle feed and not be burdened by the embarrassement of baring her breast.
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Even though i have learned a lot from this thread, it sure does frightens me after reading all these stuff a women has to go through. i can't beleive it that it hurts when you get milk what the helll :(
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^ i know eh.. all the moms make it look so easy. never knew there were so many things women had to go through. pretty scary stuff.
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suroor - I know, it kind of makes you want to ask your mother for forgiveness for everything you ever did to cause her pain after you have a child. I never knew before hand. The reason it looks so easy is you have no option, so you adapt, you still do it because you want what is best for the baby. In the end, it's all worth it.
As far as breastfeeding in public, I can't do it. I'm not against it at all but personally, I can't do it. If I was out and run out of bottles then I would ask in a store for an out of the way office or the employee lounge and explain why. Nobody ever refused me a space.
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lussi if you’re gonna criticize, at least do it right
it’s INdecent 
i love my baby, don’t worry, he just messing-and if he’s not…well who cares? you seem sooo excited about this 
whatever happens, i wish you the best of luck inshallah…sounds like your body will need it 
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I just wanted to add that some women start producing milk
around the 7th month. I remember leaking on the days I would do
a lot of house chores during my pregnancy.
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Sorry if this is off topic, but does anyone know if giving supplemental water is necessary for a breastfed baby?
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no, it isn't, breastmilk is a liquid :)
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Minah, that's exactly what I think also, that breastmilk provides everything for the baby. But I've just heard too many conflicting opinions. The only water I've given so far is the 'sonf laachi paani' for gasiness and that's only little drops. Thanks
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Breastfeeding notes
-soften the hard breast by expressing milk. (press sideways. parrallel to niple).
_Aerola shold be deeply wrinkle and relax)
-Try to drip milk you expressing in to baby mouth.
-stroke baby's upper lip with your nipple so baby opens her mouth.
-Keep your breast compress till it falls into jaw of baby and baby start sucking.
-Once baby mouth is open quickly bring her mouth to breast so nipple touches baby upper jaw and covers your lower aerola.(imp).
-Hold onto compress breast until baby start sucking( make sure your fingers are parellal to baby lips and your nipple)
-Position baby head tilt extentded so top of the baby mouth hold nipple. CHIN presses the breast NOT Nose.
-Once baby start sucking gently remove your hand compression and hold y our breast from below to give your breast support.
-If nursing is painful, remobve baby by gently insertling your finger on side of baby lip to remove latch(START OVER)
_if Not painful left baby suck one breast and and then latch the baby on other breast till baby is full.
GOOD LUCK NEW MOM.
SORRY FOR ANY TYPOS........