Not able to breastfeed - anyone else doing this?

Me 👋 waiting for an ENT appointment next week to see if baby has a tongue tie, as she won’t latch, and pumping until then. Pumping makes me miserableeee and I won’t be carrying on long term. Depends how it makes you feel as to whether it’s sustainable - plenty of women in America exclusively pump due to poor maternity leave provisions. There is a good Reddit community if you want to read others’ experiences!

I’m the same here - pumping is miserable but I find that spending skin-to-skin time with my son every morning helps with use of nipple shield. He starts to get it with latching although he’s been used to the fast-flow bottle for the past 3 weeks. I would say keep going for a couple more weeks with expressing breast milk and bottle these as you gradually move quantities from the bottle to breast. It’s not going to be easy as I’m going through it right now.

Hey, I've struggled to breastfeed and have been pumping a lot too (it was the exactsame with ny first baby too). Is it that your baby isnt latching, or another reason altogether?
Have you tried giving some or all of a bottle and then trying them on the boob afterwards, when they're feeling full and content?