I have an 8 week old DD who is ebf. She's doing great, only feeds for ten minutes at a time but putting plenty of weight on (she's just efficient) and she's been sleeping through the night from ten till 5:30 without waking for a feed since 6 weeks. She's doing excellent, the problem is me. I'm finding it exhausting feeding her. She sometimes wants feeding three times in four hours and I have a two year old also who's running me ragged. The breastfeeding is literally draining me so I'm considering switching to formula in the day and just breastfeeding at bedtime and first thing in the morning. I can't express because she damaged my nipple's with her latch one time and if I try and express they bleed lots. The thing is I know breast milk is better but I feel like I need the respite to because better mum, but then I feel like I'm being selfish and should just manage.
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