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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s annoying but you are making everything harder for yourself (including handling her) by insisting on breastfeeding. At 2 weeks PP your milk supply isn’t going to increase. [/quote]

You are a moron. I had a similar situation and had to briefly supplement with formula and eventually wean off the shield but we went on to successfully exclusively breastfeed for the whole year after the bumpy start and brief supplementation. I was so glad I didn’t listen to people like you. [/quote]

Be specific though. Did you double your milk production after 2 whole weeks? [/quote]

NP here, and you know what?  My son is 11 and I don't remember all the details because I'm not a lunatic, but you are indeed a moron.  My supply more than doubled after two weeks, so much so that exclusively breast fed my preemie until he was 5.5 months old when we started to supplement.  I continued nursing with supplementation until he was 16 months old.

Do I wish I had started supplementing earlier?  Maybe.   Not for my son, who was fine, but for myself, because morning, pumping, and bottle feeding was exhausting.  I did it to assuage my own guilt over his premature birth and to try to do right by him in a way I thought I could.  But he would have been fine on formula.

This is not the point for OP, though.  OP can decided to feed her baby however she likes; it doesn't matter.  Fed is best.  But her MIL needs to get her nosy, judgmental self out of OP's bra.  What's happening in there is none of her business.  OP and her DH need to set a firm boundary that the topic is not and never will be up for discussion.  [/quote]

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