LO is almost 13 months old. He's been exclusively breastfed until now. However, recently I've started realising it'd probably be best to quit as soon as possible. Don't get me wrong, I've never done anything abusive to my child and I love him more than anything, but in the last few days I've lost control - I have not slept properly for about 13 months now, and the lack of sleep seems to finally have affected me. LO breastfeeds a few times a day and a lot of times at night, he falls asleep while breastfeeding. So my night have been very uncomfortable since I gave birth. But I know realise I've started to get angry when LO wakes up every half an hour screaming - it'd never been the case until a few days ago. Sometimes I just don't hear him screaming in the middle of th night right next to me in the bed because I'm so exhausted. I wake up 5-10 times a night and now I get angry, last night I said something like Why don't you just fucking sleep. Basically, I think enough is enough, I'm becoming a monster because of breastfeeding all night. I feel very guilty at daytime about getting annoyed with my little boy at night, I feel guilty about stopping breastfeeding as he seems to enjoy it.
Please share your opinion, I think in this situation in a way it'd be better for LO to not have breastmilk anymore. Last night I was half asleep and I said those nasty words, I don't want to be that kind of mum, that's not me, not who I am. Do you think I should stop breastfeeding or try hard and continue? Thank you!
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Is it time to stop breastfeeding?
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LockHorns · 02/08/2015 17:08
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