This is a bit of a downer for a Saturday night so apologies.
DD is 10 months now.
We had a traumatic birth resulting in an emergency c section under GA, as well as being readmitted twice due to DD having a low heart rate and not weeing.
During this time I stopped bfing despite it going well - mostly in the hope that giving DD formula would cause her to wee...
Tried to pick it up again when things had settled but was so, so wrung out that I just couldn't sustain the cluster feeding. So we went back to formula.
AIBU to still feel completely cut up about this??
I feel like I have failed my DD totally. I feel like I didn't try hard enough, that my reasons for giving up were selfish, etc. (I wouldn't think this if anyone else, though!)
I have post-natal depression but have slowly been feeling better, but I can't get over this sadness about bfing. I find it so difficult to read things about it, even though I think it's such a fantastic thing. It just kills me when people talk about bfing and the bond it creates with their DC. Just cuts me up.
Sorry again for the downer, just needed somewhere to spew.
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To still feel this way?
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artlessflirt · 03/09/2016 21:41
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