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Feeling sad about stopping breastfeeding?

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August21yellowbaby · 07/03/2022 20:45

My little boy is now 7 months. He's had breast milk for that whole time, even though the first 8 weeks it was all expressed as he was unable to latch. When he turned 6 months I started to introduce some bottles of breast milk again, it was hard to get him on the bottle at first but now he loves them and gets very excited when he see's his milk!
When he was breast fed he would only feed for a max of 5mins and wanted milk at least every 2 hours, he would get very distracted and was very hard to feed. He was waking every 45 minutes at night, I was getting no help because he only wanted to latch onto me, I was exhausted and very very depressed, my goal was 3 months of breastfeeding then I wanted to get to 6 months, so I did achieve my goal, but I still feel so sad about stopping, is this normal? Will I regret this forever? Is it just my hormones? I almost feel useless now :(

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TyrannosaurusRights · 08/03/2022 18:52

You’ve done so well feeding him to six months. You don’t have to give up if you both still want to nurse. Breastfeeding can be done alongside solids, bottles, and water. And if you do want to stop that’s ok too. it’s normal to feel emotional and maybe even a bit conflicted about it.

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/03/2022 18:54

If you are sad about stopping then don't stop.

Fupoffyagrasshole · 08/03/2022 19:17

Don’t stop then! Really if you don’t want to there is no reason to. It gets easier as they feed much less as they get older.

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