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    Encouragement When You Feel Like Quitting Breastfeeding

    Published: Jun 19, 2018· Modified: Jan 25, 2020 by Jen Brenan · This post may contain affiliate links .

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    I started this blog almost four years ago. Which is crazy for me to think about now. At the time I had a 7 month old, and had just been laid off from my tech job.

    I had always wanted to start a blog, so I figured it was a good time to do it while I figured out my next move.

    Encouragement When You Feel Like Quitting Breastfeeding

    When I thought about ideas for a blog, I knew what I wanted to blog about; breastfeeding!

    The reason was because a little over two years earlier, when my first baby was born, I seriously struggled to breastfeed in the beginning. Becoming a new parent and finding out how demanding breastfeeding could be was a shock to my life.

    I didn’t love breastfeeding at first, but I grew to love it as time went on. In fact, I became passionate about it.

    The early days were hard for me. Pretty much as soon as my daughter was born I wanted to quit, and  I struggled to have my milk come in due to her being in the NICU. I had to pump to bring my milk in which seemed horrible at the time.

    I spent a lot of time online back then (in 2012!) looking for answers, searching for anything that would give me hope breastfeeding was going to get easier and was something I could accomplish for my baby.

    I am grateful for those blog posts and informative articles which helped me then.

    I could never imagine at the time that I would go on to enjoy breastfeeding, and breastfeed two more babies.  Now that I have my own blog, I get so many comments and emails from women in those early days feeling exactly how I did back then.

    To hopefully give some encouragement to those who may feel like quitting, I will offer this quote I have heard:

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    1 “never quit on your hardest day”
    2 Please check out my posts offering encouragement and please let me know if you have any questions!

    “never quit on your hardest day”

    And I also offer some of my favorite posts about breastfeeding which may be helpful to read when you feel like you just can’t get through it.

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    Please check out my posts offering encouragement and please let me know if you have any questions!

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/newborn-cluster-feeding-tips

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/cluster-feeding-fussiness-and-newborn-babies

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/when-does-breastfeeding-get-easier

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/if-youve-been-breastfeeding-three-months

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/breastfeeding-benefits-after-6-months

    https://breastfeedingneeds.com/setting-and-reaching-breastfeeding-goals

     

     

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    1. Emma Gedge

      June 23, 2018 at 11:08 am

      Thank you so much for providing this very inspiring blog. I am extremely interested on reading encouragements about breastfeeding and right parenting. This has totally helped me out a lot and have gained so much ideas. Thanks!

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    2. Sarah

      September 16, 2018 at 10:58 pm

      Thank you so much for sharing

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    3. Foxip

      February 17, 2020 at 11:20 am

      Thank you so much for this post. Not yet but soon, after comming back to my work maby I will be forced to quit breastfeeding.

      All the best for all moms!

      Reply

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