Why did you stop breastfeeding your newborn?

I stoped before they even got out of the hospital, with my first she was premature and In nicu , breastfeeding would have kept her there longer , with my second he was premature and had a really bad latch and low blood sugar, i exclusively pumped with my first for 11 months and currently exclusively pumping with second

My son was readmitted into hospital for jaundice and put under uvrays

I stopped after 2 months, I had D-MER and wanted to stop after they had their first vaccines

Stopped directly breastfeeding and started exclusively pumping at 1 month with my oldest. We tried everything but her latch was so bad it was agony, I was genuinely screaming in pain and crying at every feed. Because her latch was so bad she wasn’t getting enough milk or gaining weight so we were stuck on triple feeds.

Stopped breastfeeding my second at 10 weeks. Her latch was good and everyone I went to for help told me to just keep doing what I was doing. But her weight gain was awful. I started doing weighted feeds with every single feed and it showed she was only drinking an ounce at every feed when she should’ve been having at least 4. I couldn’t get her to take any more and the anxiety of it was too much. We switched to formula at that point.

Mine wouldn't latch and pumping just made me so sad. Idk if it was because I'd wanted to breastfeed so badly that when it didn't work out I was disappointed or if it was something more

I tried for 2 weeks but had to supplement with formula bottles the whole time because he wouldn't latch most times, would just scream at the boob, and when he did he barely got anything. I switch to exclusively pumping for 7 months and then switched to formula as my supply dwindled around then, exclusively pumping also took such a huge hit to my mental health so it wasn't worth continuing. Praying I can get my girl (35w today) to latch when she is born but well see. Im not exclusively pumping if she doesn't and will just do formula

I almost gave up so many times but the benefits were too strong in my mind, its tough and diff stages have diff challenges but you just gotta do what youre happy with!! Then you can never be wrong x

I breastfed my second born for 16 months so when my third was born nobody was interested in checking latch. I kept saying something didn’t feel right because she wouldn’t latch for more than a few seconds and I was so, so engorged. I asked multiple times for her to be checked for a tongue tie but everyone was more concerned with my mental health and told me I needed to stop for my sanity. I stopped for a few days and my supply completely dropped because it was never really established and a midwife then checked her latch and she did in fact have a really severe tongue tie and had close to zero movement. By the time it was snipped I just didn’t have it in me to try and reestablish supply x

I found it unbelievably painful when feeding, despite everyone telling me the latch was great. I used to cry in anticipation of having to feed her because it was so bad, so gave up two weeks in. Learnt a lot from my experience though and managed to exclusively breastfeed my second