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[quote=Anonymous]--start with sleep/casual bras and nursing tanks since your size will go up and down. I got cheap, stretchy jog bras, 2 majama sleep bras and some stretchy nursing tanks from target (I think it was called Basics brand?). I found the gillian o malley from target to be constricting. Don't buy expensive nursing bras until you are closer to going back to work. I needed a lot because I leak a lot at night and wanted to wash/change them daily. That's why I went for the cheapies.

--don't buy a pump now. see how pumping goes. I rented from the breastfeeding center the first month.

--dont buy bottles ahead of time, or start with one, babies have preferences sometimes and one works where another one doesn't.

--what else to expect...I didn't know how to deal with engorgement for the first baby,  no one warned me how hard it would be. With the second, i stayed ahead of it--ice packs every hour!, ibuprofen, strategic pumping/massaging--and got by without the multiple rounds of mastitis (and bad latch) of #1.

--oh yeah, don't plan on wearing a dress if you are pumping. I remember sitting in my unlockable pumping "closet" (a storage room at work)  basically naked, since I had to remove my dress to pump. I was always convinced someone would walk in on me at that moment.

--breastfeeding #1 sucked at first--hard, painful, unsuccessful, and I was WAY too stressed about establishing supply and refused to supplement or let DH do bottles at first, which in retrospect was nuts.....eventually we turned the corner at 6 weeks and made it to 15 months, although I supplemented at 9 months. Breastfeeding #2 has been easy peasy from the start--and it was the second time that I was totally okay with supplementing, etc, if it wasn't working out. You never know how it will go for YOU but don't let the craziness of FTM, hormones, etc, drive you nuts if it is not working out. Take a deep breath, know that it gets better and if it doesn't, there are alternatives to EBF. [/quote]

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