Teenage Motherhood Stress: The Good Kind

In an article I wrote recently I stated that I was only 17 years old when I had my first born son. What I didn't talk about was that I was so stressed out the first 2 months. First of all it was the summertime and it was hot and my mom didn't want the air conditioning on because of the electric bill, so I had to use a fan, that wasn't much help. At my age I felt as though being young I should do what no one would expect so I decided to nurse him, big mistake for my first time. He sometimes preferred formula over breast milk, he wanted to feed too frequently, and many times I wanted to cry to, plus what made it worst was that my mom watched me go through the whole transition from teen to woman and she wanted so badly to give her advice, but I often felt as though everyone would assume I never knew what I was doing because I was young. So I let her know the first week to let me do it on my own, I needed to learn.

When I had my second child I decided to try nursing again, and for a while it hurt like hell, but I got used to it the only problem I always seemed to have was that my children it seemed ate every hour as newborns instead of every 2. Now my first born was 6 lbs even, and somehow I knew that the weight of my second born would determine just how much he eats. I nursed him for 13 months, his brother is 37 lbs at 4, he is 31.