Amy Schumeris revealing why she chose to stop breastfeeding her sonGene Attellone month after he was born in May.
“I wanted him to get the colostrum,” Schumer said of the earliest breastmilk produced during pregnancy. “We had a lactation expert come over. He didn’t latch and I just didn’t feel that push to make that happen. Then I pumped for like the first month.”
The mom of one, who shares her son with husband Chris Fischer, added, “Then I was like, ‘Not for me.’ … This is not for me and I didn’t want to do it.”
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In her conversation, Schumer stressed the importance of new moms choosing what’s best for them.
“Some people just absolutely love it and I’m so happy for them, and it was just bumming me out. But then I was also kind of proud doing it and whatever and getting him the milk and stuff,” she said.
“Then once it occurred to me that I could stop. I was like, ‘I’m going to stop.’ … And then, every week what I did was just took away one session of the pumping,” she said.
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Schumer also remembered a time when tennis proSerena Williamswarned her of a certain brand of formula.
“It just has less sugar and he did great on that. So I really encourage women to … There’s so much pressure to breastfeed, but really it’s all in your head. Do you,” Schumer advised.
Elsewhere in the interview with theInformed Pregnancy and Parenting Podcast, Schumer talked about her son’s“really scary” Cesarean birth.
“I was throwing up through the first hour of my c-section. It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half — mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis, and that was really scary,” she said.
source: people.com
