Why did you stop before goal

Question

I see a lot of posts/comments about wanting to breastfeed longer but stopping (wanted to go a year, stopped at 7mo)
I'm not judging I just genuinely want to know why.

Answer

I have PPD, PPA, and PTSD. My daughter spent 10 days in the NICU due to preterm birth... which meant establishing my supply with a breast pump in between visiting her every 3 hours and trying to get some sleep. It was mentally and physically exhausting. They didn't even let me try to latch her until she was a week old and had already been on formula for a week. At 4 weeks, she still couldn't latch. Pumping/breastfeeding now causes major anxiety for me... and I decided (while working with my doc) that it would be better to stop to help me bond and take better care of my daughter.

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Baby just refused it after 5 months:(

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We decided to have another baby and I couldnt keep my supply up.

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I started taking birth control and baby stopped eating.

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Work. Pumped but couldn't keep up with the demand in the least after 4 months

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I couldn't make enough milk.  I had/have severely asymmetrical tubular breast with insufficient glandular tissue.  I was hopeful that I would be able to breastfeed, but only could pump 5-15mL a session after four weeks.  I was supplementing with formula via SNS at the breast and pumping.  My baby just turned one month yesterday and I decided to stop.  The 20-30mL of breastmilk he was getting a day wasn't worth all the stress and work anymore.  I feel really guilty and sad that I wasn't able to breastfeed.

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I don't want to stop but I could see painful clogged ducts recurring or mastasis doing it.  But right now it's also hard to keep up at work and pump.

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It was too exhausting for me. Either feed or pump every 3 hours even at night so even if my baby slept all night I'd still be up pumping otherwise I'd wake up in the worse pain. I feel like my whole life revolved around breastfeeding and it was affecting me mentally so I decided to stop.

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I almost stopped at 9 months, I had thrush on my nipples. It was so painful to nurse and one nipple cracked and bled. After pumping and treating the thrush for a few days it's better now and am back to nursing! But I did decide to slowly wean now. Hopefully by one year we will be done nursing, I miss normal size boobies :P

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Suppy dwindled and baby got server acid reflux so we were advised to switch to formula.

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