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A Dear Momma Baby Guide
However You Feed Them
Breastfeeding, formula, and finding your footing, from the first feed to the family table
Fed baby, standing mother.
For the most counted job you’ll ever do: a feeding plan you choose, a limit you set, and an answer for every comment.
What it’s costing you
Ounces, minutes, wet diapers, and an opinion from everyone who’s ever held a baby. Feeding becomes the thing you’re graded on, and you’re the one doing the grading.
Why it works
What matters is that your baby is fed and you are still standing. You make the plan with the people who can actually help (your doctor, your lactation consultant), set the limit you can live with, and stop defending it to everyone else.
Use it tonight
If someone says…
“Breast is best.”
“We’re doing what’s best for this baby, in this house.”
“Are you still breastfeeding?”
“We are. It’s working for us.”
“Formula’s just as good. Why are you putting yourself through this?”
“Because for now, this is what I’ve chosen. I’ll look at it again at my checkpoint.”
from However You Feed Them
All the way through
Making your plan and setting your limit.
Breastfeeding you can live with, combination feeding done properly, pumping, and changing course without guilt. Your partner and the feeds, the comments and the grandmothers, back to work, and the move to the family table.
What changes
A plan you chose, with a checkpoint you set.
A limit, so feeding doesn’t take all of you.
One-line answers for the comments.
Permission, in writing, to change course.
What’s inside
The next feed
Fed baby, standing mother
Making the plan, and setting your limit
Breastfeeding you can live with
Combination feeding, done properly
Pumping: part-time, full-time, and the day you stop
Changing course
The bottle they won’t take
Your partner and the feeds
Back to work
The shape of a meal
Our Feeding Plan + the First Seven Days
Who it’s for
For breast, bottle or both, from the first feed to the family table. Medical questions belong with your doctor and lactation consultant, and this Guide tells you when to call.
However You Feed Them
- The full Guide as a digital PDF, [page count confirmed at the sweep] pages
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