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Breastfeeding was very painful and difficult for me also and I only lasted a few weeks with each child. It turned out that both were lactose intolerant and felt uncomfortable almost all the time so they screamed for hours on end. They both wanted to nurse every 1.5 hours or so. Because of my size, the only position I could use for nursing wasn't comfortable or bonding to me. I reached a point where I was so exhausted I thought I was going to collapse and I couldn't handle not being able to leave the house at all for weeks on end because I had to be there to feed the baby. Maybe that was selfish and a lot of people tried to make me feel guilty but I bonded much better with my babies when I fed them hypoallergenic formula (yeah, her allergies are why she picked that username..lol) and we all got to sleep for more than an hour at a time. When I could rock with them in the rocking chair while giving them a bottle, I felt closer to them. While nursing, between the pain, the sleep deprivation,the weird position and the inability to do anything but nurse a baby and try to sleep, I was just growing resentful, not bonding. People need to do what is right for them. I have great admiration for women who can do it, but I couldn't do it. Nutramigen and mylicon drops worked wonders for us.
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