Hi everyone, I’m due in a couple of weeks and worrying a bit about breastfeeding. I have small boobs (b cup and even In pregnancy they’ve only got a little fuller) and the idea of having the baby feeding off just me exclusively for months/years just doesn’t feel right for me. I think I really just want to feel like myself a bit more again and some of my friends who have exclusively breastfed have found it so tiring and like they literally don’t do anything else as it’s all on them. I’ve found it really off putting…
I have suffered with depression in the past and I just feel like getting more breaks and hopefully a little sleep could help me stave off getting post partum depression maybe.
My partner and I feel like it would be great to make sure the baby gets the colostrum and early milk but to combine this with formula, and then maybe go to just formula after a few weeks so we can share the feeding equally and I can have a break. Also I am self employed and at about 6 weeks I will need to leave the baby with my MIL for a full day I few times while I do a job so they kind of need to like a bottle and formula.
Is this ok? I feel ashamed and like a bad mum for feeling like this is the best decision for us. And it’s my first so of course I have no idea if this plan will work x