My DS2 is 3 wks old and I really want to EBF for at least 4 months if I can. However, I'm finding it a real struggle and today I seriously considered giving him a bottle, although I didn't. I feel like he's never satisfied, I can give him what I consider to be a full feed and an hour or so later he's asking for more. It's like he's cluster feeding all day. I don't feel a letdown and I never know when my breasts are empty, so I don't really know how long to keep him on each breast for, or when to switch sides.
But by far the worst consequence of this is how much time I'm not spending with DS1, who's only 2. He now sees his mummy with a baby permanently attached to her, which makes it virtually impossible to play with him, take him to the park, read him a bedtime story, etc. He's being really good about it but I feel like I'm constantly palming him off onto other people, and it's breaking my heart. It's his birthday party on Monday and I'm already worrying about how I'm going to get out of the house to get all the food we need and how I'm going to get everything organised (cake made, house tidied) if I'm feeding all day.
I lost all confidence when bf DS1 because he wasn't putting on weight and ended up mixed feeding until 4 months when I switched to ff. I would really like to avoid doing the same with DS2 but I don't know how to make things better.
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Margie32 · 03/01/2013 17:45
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