Dd2 is 13 weeks old and i feel like i am losing an uphill battle with the feeding. It is really upsetting me as it seemed to be going really well but at her 8 week check she had dropped from over the 50th to between the 2nd and 9th percentiles. She has had four colds already, each lasting a fortnight, and when she cant breathe she wont latch. After i knew she had lost weight i started trying to feed more often but she screams if i try to feed her when shes upset, and i am just getting more and more wound up. I feel like i am force feeding and starving her at the same time. Before i would assume if she wouldn't take the breast she wasn't hungry but now i cant assume that, and she often will take a bottle, and with every bottle she has she fights the boob more. I'm on ADs from pnd and anxiety with dd1 and at first i felt like i wad doing much better not getting worked up this time, but now i am getting into a state and fantasising about formula as then id know for sure if she was hungry or not! Ugh,i felt like this with dd1 and really felt like it was easier this time but here we are again
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