I feel shamed😔
I'm naturally sensitive and now even more so with these postpartum hormones and I know there are gonna be women no matter what that will look down on me for bottle feeding instead of breastfeeding. I just didn't expect a woman from my own church to. I'm a Christian, but from my experiences, I've always found people to be nicer and friendlier outside of church then the women at church. We have a nursing/changing room for Mothers w/infants and I like to use that room to feed my son too because it's the quietest place and he won't eat anywhere else when he's too distracted. Normally I'm the only one in there but today 3 other moms came in. Every single mom nurses except for me. That makes me feel bad enough already. One of the moms sat next to me (was the only other spot open) and started nursing her son. He is easily distracted as well and wanted to play with my son and his bottle. She said in a condensending tone, "No don't touch the bottle, I have something much better for you" I didn't say anything and felt embarrassed in front of everyone. Made me feel like crap. Don't know if she realized what she said but it hurt me. I tried breastfeeding when my baby was born. It was incredibly hard for me. I have depression and I always have to force myself to eat and drink. It's hard for me to eat just 2 meals a day. I could barely pump anything and my son was on me 24/7. Took over an hour to nurse each time, then was back at it within 30 min. This went on for 6 weeks straight. It was emotionally stressing me out to the max. It was making me hate everything in my life and made it even harder to eat which was affecting my supply greatly. My baby has always demanded alot of milk too that I couldn't keep up on with everything going on. Not everyone can breastfeed and I wish I didn't have this depression (which I've had since I was a kid) You never know what a persons story is. I don't want to feel shamed for bottle feeding my son especially at church. I take very good care of him and he's very happy and healthy. I hope people see that regardless of the bottle of formula they see.
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