I’m a Breastfeeding Fanatic
If you know me in real person, you know how passionate or fanatic I am about breastfeeding. LOL!
I could go on and on talking about the goodness of breastfeeding like I’m a pro, which I am but without the cert! 
I didn’t plan to breastfeed my babies in the first place, as everyone around me feeds their babies with formula milk, and I thought that’s the ONLY food babies get. And I had this mentality last time that only Malays breastfeed because….err….they can’t afford to buy formula milk. OK, shoot me! I was guilty as charged as that was being implanted in my mind by people around me.
When I was pregnant with Justin, I only read a lot about pregnancy and baby care, and I just don’t care much about breastfeeding. However, when I came across Mix.FM during breastfeeding week (every August) and overheard Lilian’s conversation with Jasmeen and Richard and that made me decided on the spot that….I WANNA BREASTFEED!!!
Coincidently, lots of breastfeeding articles came out in Nan Yang Daily, and I read about how Twinsmom, working and traveling mom, and other great mothers’ experiences in breastfeeding. Most of them didn’t sound blissful in the beginning, but they didn’t give up. That’s why I succeeded in breastfeeding both my kids because I always reminded myself, if these great mothers can do it, why can’t I? We humans are mammals, and out of 4000 over species of mammals, we’re the only one thinks we don’t have milk and feeds on other animals’ milk. Doesn’t this sound ridiculous? I apologize if my statement offended you, but that’s how I keep myself motivated and focus.
My breastfeeding journey is not as easy as I thought in the first place, and I’ll share with you in this blog. Stay tune and link my blog to know more. Thanks. 
Hey there,
Can’t wait to hear more advice about breastfeeding. I had so much trouble and gave up nursing my daughter after a week … but I did continue expressing for 6 weeks …. so hopefully, she did benefit from it. There is a lot of pressure to feed baby formula from the ‘older’ generation. Everytime baby cries, they say she’s hungry and that my milk wasn’t enough. Gave up after so much stress and pressure from the in laws!!! I still regret not trying harder but what to do when you have so little experience and no support! We are planning another child so hopefully, I’ll be stronger and wiser this time round.
Karen
Good for you.
I’m not a mother, but my sis breastfed her 3 boys and she was so adamant in breastfeeding that our mom gave up on trying to persuade her to change to formula. “kane is crying, he’s hungry, where’s your jei jei?” Those were the days when I was still in Ipoh.
Hi Karen, I’ll share my experience here.
Dawn, you’re quick! Thanks for dropping by!
if u are able to, it’s a gift. i barely had enough but managed to struggle till aidan was 4 months old, that pun mixed with formula. i tried the papaya soup trick, waking up twice in the wee hours to pump although he was sleeping, everything. no hope.
Sweetpea, I had my times when supply was really low, I’ll share how I boast it up later.
Thanks for dropping by.
I realize that once u successfully bf (with trouble at the beginning), u’ll turn into a strong (fanatic) bfg supporter. Me same here..hehehe. I can talk on & on abt it, until some of my pregnant friends i think got a bit scared of me.
Shooi, me too, we fanatic should form a group. Ha! Only we know why we’re promoting because we’ve been thru it and now know how good it is to breastfeed!