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AngieP900 · January 2011

Sorry HT, I just went down that road. I have also become a lazy, formula feeding mom.

I found pumping to be the worst.

samfish2bcrab · January 2011

I will not stress myself out breastfeeding #2. Totally not worth it. I'll do what i can, but if it isn't smooth i'll top him/her up with formula immediately. it REALLY took a lot of enjoyment out of my first months with Lila and I'm pretty sure the stress/lack of sleep took years off of my life

FuckdaBreastmilk POlice!

Vinny2008 · January 2011

Novemberrocks:
HappyTummy613:

Fortunately the bad LC only works at the hospital where I gave birth. I'm going to try another one at the hospital where our pediatrician works.

I was upset last night and today because, after 3 or 4 days of steadily increasing pumping output, I suddenly just tanked. I'm all big and sore but nothing's coming out.

It's weird because if I think about it rationally I can see that my problems, and even quitting BF'ing entirely, are not some huge crisis. But when you're in the thick of things it's a very emotional ordeal.

On the plus side, I'm currently strapped to a pump on both sides and thus look like a fembot with nipple guns. Gat gat!

YES! Miles was formula fed and is turning out just fine. I still feel little pangs of guilt here and there because I was a bfing quitter, but my life got so much easier once I gave up on it. I could then focus that energy on really getting to know my awesome kid.

This-ing the bolded parts. I only lasted 10 days. I spent all of that time focused on, and freaking out about making it work. The day that I sobbed in the pedi's office and finally said out loud that I was done, I realized that I had this sweet little kid to spend time with.

I don't think I will even attempt with kid #2. Perhaps I will in the hospital just for the skin time, and the...whatever the early stuff is called...totally blanking right now. But, other than that, it will be formula and I won't spend one second feeling like a failure of a mother that cannot provide for her child.

Jen&Joe06 · January 2011

I really hope a new LC can help you HT. You have to do what works best for you because happy mommy = happy baby! As long as you are feeding your baby who cares what you are feeding them (well as long as it isn't pizza).

I wonder if the pump you are using just isn't the right one for you? Especially since you are full but it is not getting anything out? I have one pump that is awesome and one that barely gets anything out. So weird.

KayRI · January 2011

I really wish the LC who did the breastfeeding class I went to had told us that breastfeeding is really hard for some women. I had no idea how difficult it could be, and how stressed it would make me.

lindsayll · January 2011

buddhagouda:
Novemberrocks:
I have to say, I don't mind the working full time thing. Sure, it's hard being away from Miles all day (I leave before he even wakes up in the morning) but I really enjoy my time with him when I come home. Ideally, I would try to either do a 4-day week or work from home one day a week, but that's probably as far as I'd venture into part-time land.
I'm glad you said that.
I work three days and have two at home, but two of the days I work I then go straight to class, so I get home just in time for him to go to bed. As much as I love my days home with him, they're more exhausting than my days at work. It's just so hard to get anything done, and before I know it 8 hours have passed, and I have nothing to show for it. I love playing with him and being with him, but I am now quite convinced that I would be a lousy SAHM. I would lose my ever loving mind. Some times the internet makes me wonder if part of my mommy gene is broken.

My mommy gene must be broken too.

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