You made it. I know how important it is to you that just you and your baby made it here. That is absolutely wonderful and I am so happy that you and your baby are okay.
That being said, you DO have a right to be upset about your birth and your difficulties breastfeeding. You DO the right to mourn and feel sad and angry and regretful about. You also have the right to bask in your newborn baby and enjoy your babymoon and have a freak out every time she MOVES HER FACE! LOOK AT HOW SHE DID THAT! CLEARLY SHE IS A GENIUS! Just because you had a shitty experience, doesn't mean you don't get to be happy that she is HERE and she is YOURS and she is OKAY.
You are absolutely right, breast is not best. Breast is normal. Your pregnancy, birth, and your feeding difficulties? Were not normal. Therefore, you needed to feed your child. The end. And that's coming from a board-certified boob nazi so if anyone gives you shit, just send them to me and I'll stab them with my special boob nazi decoder pen.
katie, you are an amazing, incredible person. you're supportive of your friends even when things are at their hardest for you - thank you.
i havent given up on nursing, im just making very good friends with my breast pump right now. she gets about half BM and half formula, which is the best i can do .... im just trying to come to terms with the best i can do not being the best that there is. so for now i get to be a co-sleeping baby-wearing crunchy mama who formula feeds. <--hypocrite, i am :)
I am so glad she's here! And I am super pro-breastfeeding, but you know what? Lily needs to eat, and sometimes breastfeeding doesn't go as smoothly as we want it to, and you have to do what's best for her. If it makes you feel any better, Raegan had reflux really bad when she was first born and spit up constantly. I took her in at 10 days old and she was still 7 ounces away from her birth weight because she couldn't keep anything down. She was always in a smaller percentile until she hit 3 or 4 months old, but now she's an average size and smart as a whip. So troubles with eating and gaining weight don't necessarily continue to be a problem as they get older.
And I gotta agree with the above comment that it's okay to be pissed and upset about your birth experience. I'm sorry that it sucked for you, and I hope that being a mommy will help to heal that for you.
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You made it. I know how important it is to you that just you and your baby made it here. That is absolutely wonderful and I am so happy that you and your baby are okay.
That being said, you DO have a right to be upset about your birth and your difficulties breastfeeding. You DO the right to mourn and feel sad and angry and regretful about. You also have the right to bask in your newborn baby and enjoy your babymoon and have a freak out every time she MOVES HER FACE! LOOK AT HOW SHE DID THAT! CLEARLY SHE IS A GENIUS! Just because you had a shitty experience, doesn't mean you don't get to be happy that she is HERE and she is YOURS and she is OKAY.
You are absolutely right, breast is not best. Breast is normal. Your pregnancy, birth, and your feeding difficulties? Were not normal. Therefore, you needed to feed your child. The end. And that's coming from a board-certified boob nazi so if anyone gives you shit, just send them to me and I'll stab them with my special boob nazi decoder pen.
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i havent given up on nursing, im just making very good friends with my breast pump right now. she gets about half BM and half formula, which is the best i can do .... im just trying to come to terms with the best i can do not being the best that there is. so for now i get to be a co-sleeping baby-wearing crunchy mama who formula feeds. <--hypocrite, i am :)
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And I gotta agree with the above comment that it's okay to be pissed and upset about your birth experience. I'm sorry that it sucked for you, and I hope that being a mommy will help to heal that for you.
Congratulations! Pictures?
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