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Posted: 12 September 2005 at 10:57pm | IP Logged

I always said I would bf and if it didn't work i would switch over

with ds1 i bf for 6 weeks by which time I hated him, as I never got a break to cut a long story short, i ended up letting mom lookafter him more than me!

with ds2 i bf for 2 weeks, but having a toddler as well, I couldn't cope, and I'd had mastitis as well, and he started to lose weight! not that you'd believe it now looking at him!  so I switched

with dd, i bf for 10 days but my condition during pg, was also having an effect on her, my antibodies were killing her platelets off, she went so low they nearly ended up giving her a blood transfusion, i switched her to bottle at 10 days, and her platelets went back to normal, and the docs at the hospital were surprised that they righted themselves til I explained my logic, they hadn't thought that it could be because i was bf ing

with fred, i bf for 7 days, but on day 5 my sis came round and she wasn't comfortable, so I thought what harm could it do, and gave him a bottle, my milk supply was dry before morning, had decided to bf him during the night to save on doing bottles but within 3 days he no longer wanted a night feed! 

Do I regret it?  Nope, I'm more comfortable that I at least tried, I failed, thats just tough, I'm not worried though with haveing 3 older kids i know it didn't do them any harm and I at least tried.  If I had another one and it was a girl I'd bottle from day3

Posted: 16 September 2005 at 2:53pm | IP Logged

No one should feel guilty for not doing what is best for you and your kids.

I regret not being able to breast feed Tom for longer.  I stopped at 3 months and loved breast feeding him.  It is draining having to feed him on demand, and bloody annoying fiddling about with adjustable bra straps and soggy breast pads, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I'm just breastfeeding him at night and sometimes during the day like when he has a jab and needs soothing.

It meant that hubs was out of bounds for a while where my boobs were concerned that's all.  Who says that's a bad thing!!