Things You Ask Thursday! #2
As you all know, I have started Things You Ask Thursday here on the blog! I get quite a few questions sent my way daily. I want to answer them all, but time does not allow that! This is my way of connecting and responding to you one question at a time. I take the top five most popular questions a week and make it into one big blog. These range from my marriage, motherhood, fitness, personal beliefs, etc. Ask away! Feel free to email me a question you hope to be answered next Thursday on here (livelygirlfitness@gmail.com) or direct message me on Instagram or Facebook. Thanks for stopping by friends! Let's dig in, shall we? 1.) Am I Still Breastfeeding? This is definitely the #1 question I get on a daily basis and I’m finally ready to answer. No... I am not! Whenever someone asks me why, I use to try to think of a better reason than, “ I need some freedom back for my sanity”...but that really is the biggest reason I stopped. I use to get embarrassed and kind of felt like a failure because let’s be honest this is a topic where every Mom has their own opinion. I respect that, so now I’m sharing mine. I decided to share my personal experience because I know I’m not the only one who has gone through this and I don’t want another momma feeling alone! Here’s how it went from the very beginning. I had one baby who latched amazing and one baby where it was a complete struggle. Turns out, one of my babies was tongue-tied. We got that taken care of but it still was a struggle even after. I started to pump a lot for both babies because I felt guilty only nursing one baby and pumping for the other. That’s where it can be tricky with twins sometimes... you want to be fair. I would spend 5-6 hours of my day pumping... I would wake up in the middle of the night and pump for an hour. I was losing sleep, and when you are only sleeping 4-5 hours a night... one hour is a LOT. Instead of nuzzling and snuggling my babies... I would be pumping. This resulted in a not very happy momma so I went with my gut and stopped around 4 months. As I weaned off, yeah [...]