With Eddie I was determined to breast feed, after all, that is what good mothers did and I wanted to be a good mother. I was young and naive. I could have killed by son with that decision. he was latching on fine, every thing looked great, by his first well baby checkup he had lost almost 3lbs going from 8lbs to almost 5lbs. All that crying was because he was still hungry. Once I took him off breast and put him on bottle he stopping waking up every hour to be fed. I still felt guilt when Gid was born and again I tried to breast feed, Gid had trouble latching and I spent a lot of time with the lactation ladies who tried but failed to get him to latch. A month after he was born I dried up. 2010 was a BAD year for me to be a new mother. Again, I went to formula. This time we arnt messing around, we are going straight for the bottle. YES I hate that there are certain things I cant do like give birth naturally, breast feed, hold my baby certain ways, or endure the high pitched screams but my babies health is more important then my guilt. Not being able to breast feed doesnt make me a bad mom and I wont endure those looks that this mom got and I wont be ashamed.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:08:56 +0000
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