very proud

I am very proud of both Adler and myself. We have now made it more than 3 months solely breastfeeding. this is WAY longer than i ever made it with Rigby. knowing what i know now, if i would have kept trying Rigby might have gotten the hang of it eventually but i thought it was suppose to be natural and if it did not work in the beginning it would not ever work. plus it HURT, it hurt with both girls Adler almost ripped a nipple off, and that did not heal till i went back to work and pumped 3x a day. sad to say but the pumping machine is nicer to my nipples than my own kid. Adler has a voracious suck and can feed in 5-10 mins total when actually breastfeeding. when drinking the same milk out of a bottle she takes her sweet time and can take 20-30 mins to feed. i don't understand the difference but obviously she does have a preference. we still have a back log of frozen milk. we use it from time to time when mommy had drinks or if we have weeks like this one and the stress compounds and i am unable to pump a full bottle in a day.