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Does BF affect your mood / emotions?

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potentialdogowner · 14/04/2026 21:20

Pregnant with my third and I exclusively BF my previous two up to 12 months then quit cold turkey which worked well for me and both children. But for the first year of each of their lives I really struggled with anger, mood swings and ‘irrational’ reactions to things. I’m really not an angry person usually and I know my husband struggled to see my like that too. It did seem to fade gently after I stopped BF each time. So now I’m wondering if this is really a thing, and if so whether I should consider not BF this third baby to try and reclaim some of my normal self sooner!! Or is this just a normal ‘first year of baby’ experience. Any one else experienced this?

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TinyMouseTheatre · Today 07:36

Do you think it was BFing or could it have been some PNI? That’s not to say your experience wasn’t real, it just might have been caused by something else?

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