I am a lesbian and I am breastfeeding. I wonder how many are out there? I’ve never met one before. It is an interesting experience being gay and breastfeeding my daughter. When I was pregnant, breastfeeding scared me to death. I knew it was the best thing for my child, I have studied it doing early childhood education and online, but the thought of it gave me the heeby geebies! I had a goal of six months but I had no idea how it was going to work. I have always been a boob girl, it kind of grossed me out and made me wonder how can a breast not be sexual?
Then, I had my daughter Happy Baby. In the hospital after my C-section the nurse latched her on and it was so natural! It didn’t feel weird or strange, heck, I didn’t even think about that! I looked at her beautiful face and I knew it was meant to be. The whole time I was in the hospital it was so natural and breastfeeding worked pretty good for me, my milk came in, I started pumping right away and it was wonderful! I was in the middle of practicum so two weeks after I had Happy Baby I went to practicum and left my precious daughter with my wife. I pumped during practicum, resulting in a now funny incident where I dumped six ounces on myself, had no clothes to change into, and four hours left in the day. My baby had a bit of a problem with boobie and bottle confusion but we worked through it. I also had an oversupply problem that was easily fixed by only feeding on one breast per feeding. Same issues as straight people, eh?
Happy Baby is now almost nine months old and we are still going strong. In fact, I love breast feeding so much my new goal is a year and beyond! I would love to keep feeding her when I go back to work. What is even more fun and something straight women don’t get to experience is breastfeeding at the same time as my spouse. Wifey will be giving birth in the end of February and I sooo want a picture of each of us feeding our respective babies. People have said we should feed each others babies, something I would honestly consider doing, however Happy Baby seems to have a problem when I eat wheat and Wifey likes her wheat, lol.
So, being gay and breastfeeding is not so much different than being straight and breastfeeding really. I do it in public, but I tend to get more strange looks for holding my wife’s hand in public than I do breastfeeding. I wonder how many other gay moms are out their breastfeeding or have breastfed. I’d love to meet some other gay mom’s, then maybe I wouldn’t feel so alone sometimes.
I can’t wait to see how long my breastfeeding journey goes and I am so excited to share it with my wife! Happy breastfeeding!