Breastfeeding
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Hey all I am a FTM my little one is 3 weeks old. I breastfeed and pump, we also just introduced a bottle with BF milk this week. I need some support. I feel like I am constantly feeding LO. I also feel gulty that I don't love breastfeeding 24/7. I feel like I am suppose to love it but honesty I don't when I don't get a break. The past 2 days LO has been feeding nonstop from around 4pm8pm I herd this is normal. I need some words of wisdom because i don't want to give up just because I am getting frustrated! I don't hate breastfeeding all the time, its only when he is going through his cluster feeds! Someone please tell me this gets easier! I feel guilty for even writing a post complaining about bfing haha!
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You are doing great and giving your baby a priceless gift that is so good! I know how you feel! I almost gave up too this week. Mine will be 4 weeks in 2days. My nipples hurt really bad, I had a plugged duct in my left boob and I was engorged. Not fun! I have a 3 and a half year old too so trying to divide attention is tough, but we can do it. When my son is hungry again after an hour, I think of it as him saying "mommy stop working so hard and come relax and nurse me." I know it sounds silly, especially when my house needs to be cleaned and laundry is piled up but when I focus on my children, nothing else matters and their smiles make me feel so much better!
Just be patient and bond with your little one, these days fly by and you dont get them back. Enjoy this time...even in the middle of the night.
This! At first I had a hard time letting DH help, because I didn't want her to get stressed out and cry. And then I realized I was losing my sanity and that babies cry and that it's OKAY. When I was on maternity leave, I would take the dog for a walk every day when he got home and leave the baby with him. Even if she cried some, it helped for me to get out of the house for 20 minutes by myself! (if you don't have a dog, just go walk around the block)
It got a lot better for us around the 6 week mark, but it was not fun before that. Like you, I felt guilty for not loving it. To be perfectly honest, I still don't LOVE it, but I know it's best for DD, it's free, and it's much less time consuming than formula. Those 3 things kept me going (and still do sometimes). It's also not as much of a big deal when feeds only take 5-10 minutes. Hang in there!