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Tori Spelling on Nursing Difficulties and That Pesky Postpartem Weight
days months of pregnancy without killing anyone, and with the actual birth itself, that it never even occurred to me to worry about what would come next. Nursing, caring for a newborn, losing the baby weight… I really thought that that those things would take care of themselves, with no real work on my part.
With the second one, I knew better. Maybe I should have passed a note to Tori Spelling.
Miss Tori was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last week, braying about her boobs and her belly, as only a new mom can, and was more than happy to give Jimmy and his viewers an intimate sneak peak at her life as a new mom to baby Liam, and the challenges she’s faced.
On breastfeeding:
It’s been a little difficult… I didn’t know this before,
but sometimes you don’t produce… So I supplement with a bottle to get and he found out that the bottle
is easier to consume, it’s faster and comes right to you. He doesn’t
have to do all the work. So, he started to [nurse] angry. He’d be pounding on the boob (with his fists)… And then he
got to the point where he realized, ‘Well, no matter what I do she’s
going to stick me on that thing,’ – which, it is literally larger than
his head – so now he’s kind of learned to pacify me and kinda just sit
there and suck on it until he can get
to his bottle.”
On baby Liam’s bad nursing attitude:
“Last week, I was feeding him, and he seemed to be like this
little angel baby eating, and I looked down, and he was sucking on the
boob, and he was holding it, and he had his middle finger up…he was
all, ‘F you!’”
Tori also relayed her experience with one of the most horrifyingly depressing things that can happen to any postpartum woman: she was mistaken for a pregnant woman.
I was in the market last week and some woman approached me, she said, ‘The baby!,’ and I was like,
‘Oh yeah,’ thinking he had been on the cover of Us Magazine, and she
walked up and said, ‘Can I touch him?’ and grabbed my belly. And then
it got worse. I was like, “Oh no no, he was born 5 weeks ago!’ and she
goes, ‘OH! You still have the belly.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m feeling good.’
And she’s like, ‘Don’t worry, it will go away – well I mean mine hasn’t
yet and my kid’s 18, but…(shrugs shoulders).
That smarts. But we’ve all been there. Or at least, right around the corner from there. Hang in, Tori. It gets easier… ish.
[Via CBB]
Photo US Magazine
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8 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI really enjoyed this post. It brought back so many memories of when I first became a mother.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI was just glad to read that little Liam was flipping his mom off…now I know that it’s not just me and my son, who pops the bird All The Time. And not just to us, but to strangers, too. I can’t wait to get photographic evidence…
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amEven tho I myself have breastfed (and am breastfeeding) each baby for 12+ months, I need to jump in and say that two of my very dear friends were not able to breastfeed. They tried SO HARD – using lactation consultants, the works. One of them ended up in the Children’s ER with a dangerously dehydrated baby and was told to give him formula. Neither woman knows why this happened, but I was there lending support and I know they tried VALIANTLY to get milk from their breasts into their babies!! It was painful to witness – the hourly pumping, the crying, the bottles of water and experimenting with fenugreek, special teas, what have you. I felt awful for them and, since bearing witness to their struggles, I don’t second guess a woman who says she has tried her best and finally had to throw in the towel – it happens! And those of us who have copious supplies should feel grateful and fortunate – I certainly do.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI did Not have the milk for my first daughter, I’m healthy, ate right, have no implants and by 3 weeks, her pediatrician told me she had to go on the bottle. I pumped for weeks with no increase, had a nursing specialist check in on us every couple of days..it just didn’t happen for us. The supply was better for my second child 5 yrs later, but still not enough for a baby nursing constantly. I didn’t feel cheated or like I was cheating my kids, I tried. When specialists, dulas, LLL members and your doctor say bottle feed, you do it.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amSupplementing does cause problems, most people know that now. Its basic supply & demand. Before the milk even comes in the signal is sent to make milk, but it takes some women up to 5 days to get their milk b/c they supplement, instead of feeding colostrum. And then there’s nipple confusion…
Oh by the way, spartic99, have you been to a LLL meeting lately? Its not your mother’s La leche anymore. All the leaders in my area are cool, totally non-judgemental & its the only place where I feel nobody is judging my parenting.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amShe may not have been eating enough or maybe trying to work too much too soon. These things can greatly effect the amount you produce. And she was obviously trying to make it work. Jane needs to reexamine her post, it makes you sound like one of those Le Leche Nazi’s.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI wasn’t producing (I had a C-section) and we didn’t supplement until the poor baby’s mouth and lips were dry and she was obviously getting dehydrated – she was also screaming(not crying) non-stop. Each mom is different, so perhaps sometimes they just don’t produce like Tori said? Up until supplementing I had been hooked up to the hospital grade pump practically non-stop to try and get them to start working. I ended up breast-feeding for a few months, but she was absolutely miserable the entire time. Then she got a bottle after waiting the recommended 3 – 4 weeks and she was a completely different baby. Satisfied, happy, less screaming and less squirmy while eating. That’s just me though. In the words of a friend of mine “You do what you gotta do, and only you know what that is.”
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am“Sometimes they don’t produce.” Not to be the breastfeeding police, but that’s false. They didn’t produce BECAUSE she supplemented. That’s the way it works.
Or it’s possible that her boob job is messing up the process, but that’s not an issue of milk supply. And if that were the case, she should disclose that it has to do with her implants, rather than snubbing nursing.
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