Hating breastfeeding
Anyone else? I'm 3 weeks in, one boob out of action due to nipple damage and mastitis so pumping on one and baby feeding off the other. I hate how it makes you pretty much the only one who has baby and doing the night (my one currently struggles taking a bottle of exposed milk and the newborn teats so for way too quickly for him and wnds up with him distressed and later throwing up despite paced feeding). I swore if I found it too hard this time round I'd stop but there is part of me still wanting to persist in the hope it will get easier or somehow click. But, especially at night, I'm kind of hating it. Especially during cluster feeds which seem very frequent lately. He's been assessed for tongue tie and is borderline and they said he feeds well so would be a useless procedure. Anyone else begging similar feelings?
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I've just had my second too. With my first we did one bottle a day from really early and we plan to do the same this time. It just means my partner can do one of the night feeds and give me a break. I'd definitely recommend it
Not sure why this group showed up as boy was born on July.
But I hated it initially! It took ages for him to learn to latch and he’d always fall off. The cluster feeding was draining. He was feeding over 7 hours a day and it hurt. I so nearly went to bottles.
He had a tongue tie which was cut at around 4 weeks.
We are nearly at 15 weeks now and I now love breastfeeding and am so glad I kept going.
There’s no pressure whatever you want to do. It does get easier.
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