Breastfeeding struggles

Anyone else feeling absolutely defeated with breastfeeding! My boy was born with a tongue tie, took 2 weeks too get it sorted, felt like we had latches sorted for maybe 2 days, then I got a bleb on one nipple, that's been excruciating and it's now burst and I don't feel like my son is latching right or it's just so painful it feels that way. Mostly feeding him from my left side so that's becoming sore now from being the main source of food and I also feel I'm not producing enough milk as he's always hungry once he's stopped feeding, after 2.5 weeks exclusively breastfeeding I had to give up and give him a bottle of formula to give myself a break. I've not been expressing because it's been too painful just to feed nevermind using a pump too and I just feel absolutely defeated after trying so hard to have to probably supplement with formula now as I have no supply pumped for him! I know it seems daft cause it's only formula but my first struggled with breastfeeding and was on bottles before we even left the hospital, I really wanted it to work this time and I feel like I'm failing 😭

in our community

Is it a woman's duty to have sex with their partner no matter how she feels and to even put her babies 2nd just to please him?

Even if she is post-partum, the default parent, doing everything around the house or maybe not feeling up to it... Should her duty be to have sex? Otherwise he has a "right" to go elsewhere for it or a "right" to treat her unfairly if doesn't? Also should the babies/children come last just to fulfill this "duty"?

Help. Are men really this lazy??

My boyfriend and I drunk till 4am on Friday night and I woke him at 7.45 on Saturday morning to open his front door to go to work. But he never messaged me till 3.40pm and said he was only wakened. He was really drunk on the Friday night but do guys really sleep this long ? I could never sleep this long no matter what!’

How is everyone having sex with so little time?

Honestly, having a newborn/baby under 1 is already challenging specially with the nights where the baby is fighting sleep…how is everyone here finding the time to have sex? Also with bigger wake windows and no family support around to watch the baby!!

When did contact naps end for you?

When were you able to put your baby in a crib or bassinet for naps without your baby waking up or crying.

Own bedroom

What age did everyone transfer their little ones into their own room? I feel like I’m holding on for my own selfish reasons 😭

Putting the baby down

Hey, I have a 5 month old baby boy who is so clingy towards me. I absolutely love it and I love him to pieces; however I cannot get him to go down at all. I know they say co sleeping is dangerous, but I’ve done a lot of research and follow a lot of women who co sleep with their babies on instagram to make sure I do it the safest way possible because he just will not go in his crib. If I put him down, he instantly cries and will scream the place down until I pick him up. I don’t know what to do, I can’t get anything done around the house and my body is just so achey all the time from holding him 24/7. Any tips??? I’ve tried loads but nothing works, I can’t even get him on the dummy, he can’t keep it in his mouth and he just wants to eat his hands all the time x