Want to give up on breastfeeding

Please give me some encouragement to keep going 😭 I love feeding my baby at breast I love bonding with him, but lately it has been a nightmare. As we are approaching week 4 he has started to have trouble. He will latch initially, then when I burp him halfway through he will not go back on my breast. (I burp him hallway through because he gets gassy.) Even with the breast literally in his mouth he is still screaming and giving hunger cues and I don’t know what to do!! I know it is probably trapped gas but even after he burps and spits up some he still does this. But he doesn’t do this when we bottle feed him. I’m torn between trying to push through or just switching to pumping 😭

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Is anyone a health visitor - need advice 🙏🏼

I’m severely struggling as a single parent with no family or other parent.

My toddler is well turned out, cared for, eats well, bathed, cuddled, loved, has external social activities. I give my everything to my child. So they’re not lacking. They are safe.

But I’m not well. Mentally and physically.
I can’t wash, feed myself well, lack of happiness in any aspect. Exhausted. Falling behind on so many things apart from maintaining my daughter.
Going through some external life issues which are exasperating life in the last yr or so. I can’t cope, I’m so low. I’ve had worrying thoughts about maybe it’s best I end things with myself and our pets. And let my daughter be free of everything that’s going towards me failing to survive myself. So lost and falling apart physically and mentally.
I can’t let my daughter down as she’s so attached to me. But I can’t cope.
The toddler phase has ramped up and I don’t know how to deal with the meltdowns. I don’t know how to fix myself. I don’t want her to create a bad start to how she see’s life because I’m hanging by a thread. Sometimes (a lot lately) feel she deserves better.
There’s so much to unpack that I can’t verbalise.

appreciate people might reply and say you’re doing a good job, or it is hard, etc.

But I really need a health visitors opinion on what support I may get. Without them thinking I’m saying I can’t be her mother.

This isn’t coming out well, but I’m dying inside. I don’t want to wake up. I have to admit I can’t do this and she deserves a big family and not a mother drowning in this life

Bathing baby

Hi

This may seem like a stupid question…

My little boy is 14 weeks old , we currently have a nappy changing station with a bath attached were we have been bathing him however he is now getting to long for it , I have a collapsing bath which he is also to big for. I have a shower no bath , any ideas where/how I can bath him ? 🫣 Thank you!

iPad

What age is advisable to buy your child an iPad? Or what age did you buy your child one

Behaviour

Anyone else riding the 3.5 year old behaviour disequilibrium 😆🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 testing the boundaries, the paddies, the smacking, the shouting no.. send help!! 😆😆

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How do you love yourself postpartum?

I am real struggling feeling me again after having two kids in two years. No drive to do my hair or make, or to dress up. I’ve gained over 60 pounds. Currently in therapy and trying some new meds but can anyone relate? How do you feel beautiful postpartum? (Before and after kids - please don’t judge)

The crash

Anyone watch the documentary about Mackenzie shirilla? No doubt in my mind she is guilty and her parents too. They enable her behaviour and let her do whatever with no consequences. For her mother to get up on the stand AFTER the two boys families and beg for a lesser sentence and not mention the boys except the one was a new friend… terrible. She did it, she meant it too. I believe she intended to kill herself as well but she didn’t die so they’re making up anything to make her not guilty. Disgusting.