when i was a stupid college girl i indulged in one of the VU campuses glorious special deals geared towards college kids and meth heads--$5 piercings. and no it wasn't my nose--that was pierced 3 years before i went there....and when I was in college dermals and wrist piercings were just a crazy far off idea.. after being told that they absolutely would not pierce my belly button across...to make it look like a smiley face, i got the glorious idea to get my nipples pierced.
i thought at that time i would never EVER have children...let alone get married, so it was just a stupid thing i did when i was younger...but don't get me wrong i love them. they made me feel like if you can stand to get a metal rod through your lovely lady lumps without flinching or any infections in a town made off of the worst things imaginable, then really you can and are able to do anything.
but after a while when everyone else got theirs i ,of course, wanted to up the ante and get mine double pierced...not thinking it would be like the time i wanted to get my belly button pierced i went to my piercer and he asked to see my existing ones. he freaked out and told me they were already too low and that if i wanted to breastfeeding would be a problem...
fast forward to 2011. I'm 8 months pregnant and after going back and forth in my head about it, i decided that breastfeeding is what i really want to do. I asked my OB on my first visit about the idea of breastfeeding in my future and he said something around the ideas of "i guess it shouldn't be a big deal...i think....uhm i don't know. take them out and we'll see"....
well i was pretty sure i wasn't going to take them out...but what no one mentioned to me was that when your in 1st/2nd trimester and your boobs grow to epic volumes and your metal bars are going to KILL YOU!! so yes. they came out. have they heeled? not really. but they are no longer in my skin.
well i was pretty sure i wasn't going to take them out...but what no one mentioned to me was that when your in 1st/2nd trimester and your boobs grow to epic volumes and your metal bars are going to KILL YOU!! so yes. they came out. have they heeled? not really. but they are no longer in my skin.
after the OB not really helping me at all, i googled breastfeeding with nipple rings....and got a million of gross sites...and a lot people saying it can hurt the baby if you keep the ring in while feeding--uhh duh--and that really the best way to breast feed with nipple rings is to not get them pierced at all.great huh?
well since I'm not in the "i have nipple rings in while i'm trying to feed my child" club, and already have them done...i had no where to turn to..or did i?? enter OFFBEaT MaMa!! i asked my question and today is response day!! these woman who read this blog are a mass quantity of amazing specimen...most of them trail blazed through random things as i have with raising their brood and making their family theirs.....if these ladies cant give me advice on such a unique--well at least wayy different than anything in middle of the mid-west can help me with-- than i don't know WHAT to do!!
[[REEEEEMIX!!!]] PS!! here's the link since apparently i'm lame and forgot it... and 47 comments all helping little old me out??
ohhh i couldn't be happier....and all positive and not telling me i'm screwed for life for wanting to feed the little one with extra holes!! =) i KNEW that if anyone could have helped me...it was these ladies!!
[[REEEEEMIX!!!]] PS!! here's the link since apparently i'm lame and forgot it... and 47 comments all helping little old me out??
ohhh i couldn't be happier....and all positive and not telling me i'm screwed for life for wanting to feed the little one with extra holes!! =) i KNEW that if anyone could have helped me...it was these ladies!!
2 comments:
Surely there's a way to still breastfeed if you want to!
I'm definitely going to try as hard as I can :)
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