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He thinks I've had an easy time w it. Which thankfully I have. He gets the mental part of feeling like a cow tho. But only after I've lamented about it!

hahahaha-NO! He knows how hard it was . . . I was struggling so much when we got home (the hospital's LC was horrid) that he actually called a LC for me and scheduled a same day visit. And he gophered anything and everything to me so I didn't have to move AND told me that if it were him, that after the first few rounds of cluster feedings, he would have ended it. He always refers to my BFing efforts as *Herculean* . . . it's one of the nicest things he has ever said to me.

@chopsuey119: I think it was all he could do to avoid having to hold LO . . . he was totally freaked out by her (normal) tiny-ness! He says he felt like his hands were big ol' lobster claws trying to hold his tiny baby girl!

@MsLipGloss: That's awesome!!

Mine realizes how hard it is and has been and has been incredibly supportive. I am very grateful he appreciates how difficult it is.

I don't think he thinks the journey to get where we are has been easy, but he does think the actual physical act of sitting on the couch and nursing is easy and he does seriously downplay the MOTN wakings that he's NEVER awake for...

Ha! No way! DD is just a week old and in that short time DH must have spent fifty hours supporting her head, supporting my nipple, guiding my nipple into DD's mouth and calming me down. He offers suggestions like "try the side lying position" etc when im getting stressy and can't see the wood for the trees. He went to the shop on his own for nipple shields and actually asked for help while he was there! Oh and he guided me to the car when I almost fainted in the shop when we were buying the breast pump due to engorgement/mastitis/whatever is going on with my boobs right now. He knows it isn't easy. He has supported me amazingly well, actually. Without him I would have given up days ago.

He's seen me cry, pump, bleed, take yucky herbs, re-latch LO over and over, re-stack pillows, and cry some more too many times to think its easy. He found me an awesome LC, stocks me with water, snacks, and books, and always tells me how proud of me he is for sticking it out. I would've quit without him

Nope. He spent way too many hours/days/weeks watching me cry, sticking the baby's mouth on my boob trying to get him to latch, heating up hot pads for my poor ladies, talking me into trying again.... He would never take BF for granted.

DH saw first hand my cracking bleeding nipples and the sharp shooting pains every time DD latched for the first two weeks, so no I don't think he does. He fetched me everything I needed while I nursed or pumped. I think he's scarred after watching me battle mastitis for a month where I repeatedly told him it felt like someone was scraping the inside of my boobs with shards of glass and sobbed between pumping/nursing. =P Thankfully after that it got a lot easier!!!

Hmm... I'm not sure what he thinks of it. He was definitely very supportive and helpful in the beginning when it was all really hard, but when I was at my worst and wanted to quick, he basically told me I was being a wimp and wasn't trying hard enough for our child. It was a total bummer.

Now that we're past all the hurdles and breastfeeding actually IS easy, he probably thinks it's easier than it is. And he certainly thinks pumping is cake and that I have an endless supply of milk since he's pushing us to send more to daycare! The jerk.

Luckily, he thinks it's very hard. He's told me multiple times that if I want to switch to formula for my sanity, that he would support me. It's actually been good motivation to keep up the breastfeeding.

With DS it was easy, so I'm sure my ex thought it was. Of course, he under minded everything I did...

With DH, he hasn't witnessed it, but I'm sure he understands there's a technique to it. Hopefully the next baby will be easy to nurse, like DS, so I'll be able to make it look easy again.