Black Moms Who Breastfeed

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Comment by Tenitra on September 19, 2009 at 9:44pm

I breastfed all three of mine but at the firt break of a tooth I was bottle central.

Comment by Apphia Webster on May 15, 2009 at 2:43pm

Hi Everyone. I am due to have my daughter at the end of August. I breastfed my son until he was a year. With her I would like to go longer. I joined this group for support. I look forward to getting to know everyone.

Comment by Darcel on May 12, 2009 at 10:04pm

My first breastfed for 10 months. I believe she would'e went longer had I not given her formula from 5 months on. My 2nd has been exclusively breastfed since day one. We are still going strong at 24 months.

Comment by mom of 3 on February 17, 2009 at 1:28pm

Hello, I am new to this site. I am a mom of 3 children and I have breastfed my other two children until they were two. I am currently breastfeeding my son he is 16 months and 3 weeks. He is a little more demanding than his sisters. I will contiue to breastfeed him probably until he is 2 as well. It seems that when they are bresastfed, they are rarely sick and they do not have as many ear infections. You don't have to worry about getting up in the middle of the night and making a bottle. You can just nurse your baby and still get sleep.

Comment by Nappykat on February 17, 2009 at 11:28am

Breastfeeding acts like a natural barrier against fertility because it creates more intense contractions to shrink your uterus after you have a baby and it helps stop bleeding. When I breastfed immediately after having a baby and didn’t take any hormonal birth control like depo, my bleeding lasted about week. But when I took depo after having a baby, it lasted about 6 weeks. When you take depo, it counteracts the bleeding that breastfeeding is already trying to take care of, and it makes you bleed longer. Depo itself is a hormone and working on the hormones that are released when you breastfeed. They may be counteracting each other.

I would have suggested that you not take the depo immediately having a baby. My doctor gave it to me too when my baby was about 2 days old but the insert that comes with depo says you should wait at least six weeks.

Comment by mika on March 27, 2008 at 12:12am

does anyone have this problem I thought when you breastfeeding you have no period but i have been bleeding for 7 weeks and to top that off i got the depo shot before i left the hospital and you have no period with the shot so what is going on ?

Comment by mika on March 27, 2008 at 12:08am

hi my name is mika and my baby is 7 weeks old and I am breastfeeding her but I must say that when i first started i was only doing it to lose weight but now i do it because she enjoy it .