Reply #36: Thanks...

[Clark2008]

And this is my second. I breast-fed the first one, my son, completely until I lost my milk at 5 months (I just got too thin to produce - they think. Not really sure what the cause was, but we tried several things to keep it coming to no avail).

When I lost my milk and had to switch to formula, my son nearly wouldn't take it. He couldn't stand the taste or something. My husband and mother had fed him my milk in bottle before, so it wasn't that he was against the bottle. He just didn't like the sudden switch.

Anywho, I plan to mostly breast-feed this one, too, but, I don't want to go through the trauma of a sudden switch from breast milk to formula in case I lose my milk OR my Mom runs out of my pumped milk and has to give her formula while I'm at work. So, I'm going to supplement with formula a little from birth - just in case.

And, I know what you're saying about healthy babies. Despite only 5 months of breast feeding, my son never had an ear infection and rarely had colds (until he got old enought to go to school, that is). I know the benefits for both Mother and Child.

I plan also to pump at work, but, given that I work at a small computer school, I realize, too, that some days will find it difficult for me to do so. There's just not a lot of privacy in a building with 200 students on any given day. I plan to give it my best, though.